Oakland Raiders: 3 trades that could land the team Stefon Diggs

Trade #3: 2021 1st Round Pick (OAK) & 2021 3rd Round Pick (OAK) for Stefon Diggs (WR)

If there’s a most-likely scenario where Stefon Diggs ends up with the Silver and Black, it’s a hypothetical that happens in the offseason.

Part of what makes a trade for Diggs so appealing for the Oakland Raiders is how he can help the receiving corps immediately this season — that’s the whole point of this hypothetical, after all. They have immediate problems that need immediate answers.

The “need” for a receiver like Diggs might go down during the offseason thanks to various wide receivers hitting the open market. With cap room to play with, the Raiders could make a play on someone and not even have to risk any assets being given up.

But let’s say that the Vikings do, indeed, want to hold onto Diggs at the current moment. Let’s say that Diggs is being honest when he says that there aren’t any issues right now, that things are fine in Minnesota.

It seems, at least from the surface level, that the thing that cured the situation wasn’t anything that the Vikings specifically did, internally.

It seems like this is a result of winning.

After back-to-back victories, the unrest reported seemed to slowly disappear. Winning cures these kinds of locker room issues.

At least temporarily.

The Vikings have a chance to continue their hot streak. They have a couple of lollipop opponents in the coming weeks and should end up taking on the Kansas City Chiefs without Patrick Mahomes, too.

There’s a decent chance that the Vikings will continue their winning ways and even threaten for the division, which would make Diggs happy.

But if they come up short, would it stay that way? Or would the disappointment of a lost season put Diggs right back into his brooding?

The offseason could make us revisit all of these rumors about how Stefon Diggs works into Minnesota’s future plans.

It could also give the Oakland Raiders a chance to get him for a discounted rate.

If the Raiders want to hold onto the majority of their 2020 draft capital, they could end up waiting until the offseason and offload draft picks in the 2021 draft instead. It’d be the simplest way to land Diggs, and it would let the needs of each team flesh out a bit more.

This would obviously hurt the Raiders in the 2021 draft by giving up both a first and a third, but it’d be exchanged for possibly four full years of a top-end receiver. That’s probably worth it, in the end.

The Raiders would be able to have their cake and eat it too, having a big draft in 2020 and then taking the next step with a big acquisition to go along with it. If they put it all together and keep progressing, it won’t hurt nearly as bad to give up those picks.

It forgoes the complicated, multi-team trades. It irons it out to just being picks for a game-changing player.

And while it doesn’t give immediate answers for this season, it continues adding young, capable players to a Raiders squad that could be looking to be an imposing team in the years to come.