A few months before Aron Diggs died at 39 of congestive heart failure, he sat down his second-oldest son for a serious conversation.



Stefon Diggs was just 14 and close with his father. They talked about football and anything else that came up in life as Stefon became a teenager. But this talk was different.



Aron told Stefon that he wouldn’t be around forever. You’ll need to take on a bigger role when I’m gone, he told Stefon.



“He just told me, ‘Look after your brothers. Look after your mom. Look after your family,’” Stefon said in July as he celebrated a $72 million contract that made him one of the 10 highest-paid wide receivers in the NFL. “That meant a lot to me.”



To that point, Diggs was like many young kids. He spent lots of time attending football camps with Aron, he liked playing video games, and he had a hard time adjusting to the private high school he had transferred to. Like many...