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By Sam Frost Stefon Diggs has quickly made a splash with the Houston Texans by shelling out $100,000 (£78,000) to secure his favourite jersey number from a teammate. Diggs, who was traded to the Texans by the Buffalo Bills on Wednesday, paid defensive back Jimmie Ward for his No. 1 jersey – the same number Diggs wore during his college days at Maryland. According to ESPN, Ward has now switched to No. 20, the number he wore with the San Francisco 49ers. This isn’t the first time Diggs has contemplated a jersey number change. In 2021, when the NFL permitted wide receivers to don single-digit num…

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