Trickery: Texans’ Stefon Diggs keeps it for first career touchdown run on run-pass option play

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Houston Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs (1) throws a pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn) (Bruce Kluckhohn, Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

HOUSTONStefon Diggs has done it all as a wide receiver.

The four-time Pro Bowl selection entered Sunday’s game with a pair of touchdown catches in the opening game of the defending AFC South champion Texans’ season, and 33 career touchdown catches.

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What the Texans’ veteran wideout hadn’t accomplished before Sunday was a touchdown run.

Diggs notched his first career touchdown run on a bit of a trick play.

Diggs took a handoff from Pro Bowl quarterback C.J. Stroud and ran to his right. He apparently had the option to throw the football and looked like he might throw it to Stroud. Instead, he kept it and cut back as he followed a block from rookie tight end Cade Stover to get into the end zone.

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Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and click2houston.com


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Aaron Wilson is an award-winning Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and www.click2houston.com. He has covered the NFL since 1997, including previous stints for The Houston Chronicle and The Baltimore Sun. This marks his 10th year covering the Texans after previously covering a Super Bowl winning team in Baltimore.

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