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Stefon Diggs is honoring Michael K. Williams with The Wire tribute cleats

By Aryanna Prasad

ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: Stefon Diggs #14 of the Buffalo Bills warms up prior to a game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Bills Stadium on November 29, 2020 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Bryan Bennett/Getty Images)
ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: Stefon Diggs #14 of the Buffalo Bills warms up prior to a game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Bills Stadium on November 29, 2020 in Orchard Park, New York. (Photo by Bryan Bennett/Getty Images) /
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Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs honors the legendary late actor with cleats decorated with characters from HBO’s “The Wire.”

The first week of the NFL season doesn’t just mean the beginning of football — it’s also the beginning of cleat season, and it looks like Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs has already won this week’s competition.

Diggs is dedicating his season-opening cleats to Michael K. Williams, the legendary actor who passed away on Sept. 6. While Williams inhabited a variety of complex roles, he is most prominently known for his portrayal of moralistic gangster Omar Little on HBO’s classic 2000s series, The Wire.

Widely regarded as the greatest tv show ever made, The Wire sought to humanize all sides of a Baltimore drug empire, and Williams played a significant role in that. Known for his humor and humanity, Little became a beloved character by the show’s fans. Famously, President Barack Obama stated that Little was his favorite character on the show in 2012.

Stefon Diggs has some awesome cleats honoring Michael K. Williams

“It’s got to be Omar, right?” the president responded when asked to name the best character. “I mean, that guy is unbelievable, right?”

Diggs’ cleats also feature Little’s most famous phrase on the show, “A man’s got to have a code.” Little, described as “a shotgun-toting gay man who makes his living holding up drug dealers,” uttered the phrase when accused of murder. While Little is more than willing to rob from those within the drug-dealing sphere, he never harmed anyone outside of it — Little operated by a Wild West-style code that only targeted those who signed up for a violent, risk-laden life.

“When you ever known me to put my gun on anybody that wasn’t in the game?” Little asks before stating his trademark phrase.

Diggs isn’t the only one in the NFL world who honored Williams this week. Retired NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson shared a photo of the two while commemorating him on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ochocinco/status/1435007215618953223?s=20

Diggs and his sentimental cleats will square off against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Orchard Park at 1 p.m. ET.

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