After 11 seasons, more than 10,000 receiving yards, and 74 career touchdown catches, Stefon Diggs will finally get the chance to play in his first Super Bowl. The 32-year-old, now the New England Patriots’ WR1, has enjoyed a strong bounce-back season in 2025 after suffering a torn ACL during the 2024 season with the Houston Texans.
When Super Bowl 60 kicks off on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks, Diggs will have an opportunity to add one of the few missing pieces of his potential Hall of Fame resume, and if the Patriots are going to lift the Lombardi Trophy, he’ll likely have to have a big game.
Scoring the longest touchdown of the game would certainly qualify as a big day for Diggs, and in the process, he’d earn DraftKings users some bonus bets as part of the King of the End Zone promotion. If you place a singles bet ($5 minimum) on a touchdown-scorer market and opt into the contest, the bet becomes eligible to win a share of $4 million in bonus bets if the selected player scores the longest touchdown of the game.
There are plenty of talented players participating in the Super Bowl — New England and Seattle were both among the highest-scoring teams in the league — but there may be no better King of the End Zone pick than Diggs.
King of the End Zone — What You Need to Know
The two images below break down everything you need to know about the King of the End Zone contest:
The promotion is fairly simple: as long as you opt in and place a Singles bet with a stake of at least $5 on a TD Scorer prop bet from your cash or DK Dollars balance prior to the scheduled kickoff time (6:30 p.m. ET) and don’t cash it out, your bet is eligible to receive a share of the prize pool. Your bet doesn’t need to hit to qualify; if you choose Diggs to score the first touchdown and he scores the longest of the day as the game’s second score, you’d still win a share of the bonus bets. Passing touchdowns will not count: if you choose one of the quarterbacks, he’ll need to run it in himself. Either team’s D/ST, though not an individual player, is eligible to become the King of the End Zone, and a wide receiver who also returns kicks or punts would garner payment for both users who chose him and users who chose his D/ST.
King of the End Zone Preview & Picks | Super Bowl 60
Players with shortest odds to score a TD:
- Kenneth Walker III (-195)
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba (-110)
- Rhamondre Stevenson (+140)
- Hunter Henry (+235)
- A.J. Barner (+240)
- Cooper Kupp (+260)
Why Stefon Diggs Will be King of the End Zone
The Patriots are a fairly inexperienced Super Bowl team, having finished with a 4-13 record just last season, so they’ll rely in large part on veteran leadership to win. Diggs has taken on a somewhat more prominent role in the postseason, garnering at least five targets in all three of New England’s postseason games after recording four or fewer in seven of his 17 regular-season games. His 1,013 regular-season receiving yards were nearly equal to those of the Patriots’ next-best receivers, Mack Hollins and Kayshon Boutte, combined, and relative to tight end Hunter Henry, who finished second in receiving yards, he was far more efficient.
To be fair, all five of the touchdowns he’s scored this season have been 11 yards or shorter, but he has a history of long playoff touchdowns. Each of his first three career scores were 35 yards or longer, including the “Minneapolis Miracle” that lifted the Minnesota Vikings to the NFC Championship Game in 2018, and all three were the longest of the game. All in all, of his 75 career regular-season touchdown receptions, he has nearly as many touchdowns of 20 yards or more (24) as he does touchdowns of fewer than 10 yards (27). With his solid average separation (three yards) and 0.8 yards after the catch per reception over expectation, he still has plenty of big-play ability.
The Seahawks’ defense could present a decent opportunity. While Seattle has had one of the better secondaries in football this season, limiting opponents to the fourth-lowest passer rating and snagging the fifth-most interceptions, it is very much a one-man show. Diggs could have some trouble on the snaps in which he lines up against Devon Witherspoon, who finished as Pro Football Focus’ No. 2 coverage corner among 109 qualified players, but Diggs lines up in the slot on half of his snaps, putting him against the much more vulnerable Josh Jobe (94th of 109) or rookie safety Nick Emmanwori, who graded 17th of 93 qualified safeties but suffered an ankle sprain in practice on Wednesday and could be hobbled.
The Seahawks’ defensive schemes could also prove to be to Diggs’ benefit. They operate in zone at the league’s third-highest rate, and while his overall receiving grade was higher against man coverage, he did have a slightly higher target share, slightly more yards per route run, and many more missed tackles forced against zone. Plus, Seattle’s run defense is elite, as it allowed the third-fewest rushing yards and the second-fewest touchdowns on the fewest yards per attempt. If the Seahawks bottle up Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson, Maye will have no choice but to throw.
