NFL ends – After a jury acquitted free-agent receiver Stefon Diggs of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault, the NFL has now ended its Personal Conduct Policy investigation, citing insufficient evidence for a violation. Diggs remains a free agent.
A jury clearing Stefon Diggs didn’t end the story—at least not in the NFL’s rulebook. Diggs, a free-agent receiver, was acquitted of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault, but the league initially kept its Personal Conduct Policy investigation open over the same underlying allegations.
Now the NFL has closed that probe. Per multiple reports, the league ended the investigation and determined that the evidence supporting a finding of a violation was not sufficient.
What remains unclear is whether the alleged victim, Mila Adams, was interviewed by the NFL. The league has no subpoena power. meaning it cannot compel non-employees of the NFL or its teams to cooperate in its process. Adams’s testimony at Diggs’s criminal trial was ultimately not persuasive, and cross-examination exposed many flaws in the story.
By the time the criminal case concluded, the gap between what was alleged and what was proven had already widened. Even with the NFL operating on a much lower bar than the criminal court’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard. the league still found there wasn’t enough evidence for it to conclude Diggs violated its policy. Diggs has not been placed under discipline as a result of the investigation’s closure and remains a free agent.
That matters because Diggs’s football calendar didn’t stop while legal uncertainty lingered. He recorded more than 1. 000 receiving yards during the 2025 season with the Patriots—one year after suffering a torn ACL—putting production ahead of speculation and making the final outcome feel sharper for fans watching the league’s standard set against the reality of the record.
The sequence leaves an uncomfortable question hanging over the investigation itself: when evidence falls short even under the NFL’s reduced standard, the case arguably should not have been pursued in the first place.
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