July is the peak of rankings season, so everyone is rolling out their best-players-at-each position lists. Doug Farrar at Touchdown Wire recently ranked the top 13 safeties in the NFL going into the 2022 season. Seahawks starter Quandre Diggs came in at No. 9 on that list, just ahead of new Saints superstar Tyrann Mathieu.
For most football people the secret is out as far as Diggs is concerned. In Detroit he was overlooked for obvious reasons but since coming to Seattle he’s been playing his position at an elite level. Not everyone has gotten the memo, though. Some folks are still underrating Diggs’ ability compared to his competitors. For one example, in ESPN’s recent top-10 safeties list by polling league executives Diggs was inexplicably left out. Meanwhile, Jamal Adams just made the cut.
Bizarre as they are neither of those things are as weird as excluding both Bills studs Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer, who made No. 1 on Farrar’s list.
