The Buffalo Bills blocked wide receiver Stefon Diggs from seeking a trade to the Kansas City Chiefs before dealing him to the Houston Texans, according to NBC Sports' Chris Simms.

"From what I do know, right, is that he was allowed to seek a trade from anybody in the league, except the Kansas City Chiefs," Simms told NBC Sports' Mike Florio on a Thursday episode of PFT Live with Mike Florio. "That's what I've been told by multiple people."

The Bills received 2024 second- and sixth-round picks, as well as a 2025 fifth-rounder, in exchange for Diggs.

Buffalo will take on more than $31 million of dead cap following the trade, the highest known dead cap hit ever taken for trading a wide receiver, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

Simms told Florio the deal showed the Bills' unwillingness to have Diggs on the roster next season.

"Thirty-one million dead money, a second-rounder next year, and it's a team they're in big-time competition with? That tells you how much they were done with him," Simms said.

That doesn't mean the Bills were desperate enough to trade a star wide receiver to a team that knocked them out of the playoffs three times in the last four seasons, most recently in the 2024 divisional round as the Chiefs advanced to win Super Bowl LVIII.

Diggs was named to his fourth consecutive Pro Bowl in 2023 while making 107 catches for 1,183 receiving yards in 2023.

He will now join Nico Collins and Tank Dell to catch passes from C.J. Stroud rather than serving as a target for Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City.

The addition of Diggs makes the Texans receivers group one of the most dangerous in the NFL and sets them up to become the biggest threat to the Chiefs in the AFC next season.

That doesn't mean Diggs couldn't eventually end up with the Chiefs, however.

As part of the trade, the Texans voided the three years remaining on the wide receiver's deal to turn it into a one-year, $22.52 million contract, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The sets Diggs up to become a free agent, and could give the Chiefs the chance to pursue him despite their AFC opponents' opposition, after the 2024 season.