Diggs at Pats OTA after absence, viral boat video

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs was contiguous for the team's voluntary organized squad enactment Monday aft helium was absent each past week and made headlines for a video connected a vessel that had caput manager Mike Vrabel stressing the value of bully decision-making.

Diggs arrived connected the tract for Monday's practice and waved to reporters, past said, "Nice to spot you all."

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Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels was among those who welcomed seeing Diggs, who according to teammates hasn't been astir overmuch this outpouring since signing a three-year, $69 cardinal contract.

"It's a voluntary portion of the year, we cognize that," McDaniels said. "I don't cognize if we person ever had cleanable attendance astatine these things successful general. As a coach, selfishly, you emotion it erstwhile they're each present due to the fact that you consciousness similar you person them each successful the schoolroom and connected the tract and each the remainder of it. He's present contiguous and we're excited to person an accidental to enactment with the guys that are retired present and disposable to us.

"I cognize he's staying up connected the accusation and worldly and there's truthful galore things and opportunities for america to thatch each our guys going guardant -- betwixt the remainder of the practices successful the outpouring and going into the summertime and the galore days we person earlier we really footwear the shot disconnected successful September. I'm not acrophobic astir Stef successful that regard."

Diggs was the archetypal receiver to instrumentality portion successful drills and looked speedy and decisive changing absorption and opening up successful a sprint. He besides caught passes from backmost Drake Maye, moving a assortment of routes, successful a lower-speed drill successful which determination was nary defense.

Once the Patriots progressed into much full-team drills, Diggs was a spectator, arsenic helium is inactive recovering from a torn ACL sustained successful Week 8 past play with the Houston Texans.

Wide receivers manager Todd Downing besides noted Diggs' return, portion adding that helium has been moving hard to prime up the team's system.

"As acold arsenic the conversations with Stef, I'll support the worldly we speech astir betwixt the 2 of us," helium said. "I deliberation there's immoderate carryover from what helium did successful Buffalo with [Brian] Daboll backmost successful the day, truthful there's a small spot of 'same as' and a small spot of refresher course."