Bad time to be a Diggs brother.

-Stefon “Pink Powder” Diggs has been charged with “felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery” in suburban Boston in connection with an (alleged) December 2 incident. According to the filings, Diggs hired a woman to be his personal chef for the duration of the NFL season, who then moved into a room in Diggs’ house.

Sure. Maybe that’s normal for personal chefs. I dunno.

During an alleged dispute over whether he owed her money, Diggs (allegedly) went into her bedroom, smacked her across the face and strangled her with his arm around her neck in what sounds to me like a chokehold.

Diggs, unsurprisingly, denies any of this except that there was a pay dispute.

There’s a lot going on here. Delays in reporting, the alleged intervention of Diggs’ significant other Cardi B, a lack of photos, etc. As always when something is not caught on video, we have to wait and see how this all plays out before we rush to judgment.

Even for a Patriots player.

Still, it’s not a great thing for your sole healthy good receiver to have a court date scheduled for two days before a playoff game. Maybe the Pats will do everyone a favor and flame out spectacularly in their first game.

Also: felony strangulation. FELONY strangulation. I realize this is the Boston area, where a kick in the junk is considered a form of polite greeting. But it feels like a distinction between felony strangulation and “minor” strangulation is probably unnecessary.

ALSO Also: “providing personal services to an NFL player” may be displacing Alaskan crab fishing as America’s most dangerous mainstream occupation.

-Stefon’s younger brother, Trevon, was released by the Cowboys today. A lingering performance drop after an ACL tear in 2023 makes him more of a depth piece for a playoff team than a last-minute savior- he’s been awful this year, even before a TV fell on his head and concussed him. It’s sad that he will miss out on more than half the putative value of his five year, $97 million 2023 extension, but after his injury he was never going to see that money anyway.

Still, given his ties to Green Bay (shares a tight friendship and now an agent with Cowboy escapee Micah Parsons) and New England (ne’er do well older brother), he might end up on a post-season roster.

-The Old Man Rivers experiment in Indianapolis is over after three ugly games. Duke-Notre Dame double alum Riley Leonard will take the reins in a meaningless-to-them-but-important-to-the-opponent game at Houston. Godspeed, King Lazerface.