Stefon Diggs will be wearing a new uniform for the 2020 NFL season. The Minnesota Vikings traded the star wide receiver to the Buffalo Bills last week.

Why was the 26-year-old wideout dealt? Apparently it all goes back to a tweet the former Vikings receiver shared.

“It's time for a new beginning,” Diggs wrote on Twitter on a week ago last Monday.

According to Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, Diggs' social media activity accelerated the Vikings' trade talks, sending him to the AFC East franchise. Other teams reached out to Minnesota—Diggs' tweet was not a message to his fans that he was already in the process of getting traded—with Buffalo being the landing spot for the fifth-year wide receiver and star of the “Minneapolis Miracle.”

Diggs recorded his career-best year in receiving yards during the 2019 season, tallying 1,130 in 15 games on 63 catches—39 fewer receptions than the previous season. The Vikings drafted Diggs in the fifth round out of Maryland in 2015. In five years with the Twin Cities franchise, Diggs totaled over 4,600 receiving yards and 30 touchdowns.

In addition to the Bills, their division rival New England Patriots inquired about Diggs' availability to the Vikings after the tweet, per Breer, but did not push for the receiver after franchise tagging guard Joe Thuney and seeing Tom Brady decide to sign with another franchise after 20 years in Foxborough.

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Diggs, after leaving the Vikings, joins a wide receiver corps in Buffalo with wideouts John Brown, Cole Beasley, and rising sophomore tight end Dawson Knox.

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