The Seahawks didn’t make a splash on the first day of the NFL’s legal tampering period. Instead, the team stuck to re-signing their own pending free agents. No. 1 on the list was two-time Pro Bowl free safety Quandre Diggs, who agreed to terms on a three-year, $40 million deal.
The Seahawks are now spending an unholy amount of money on their starting safeties between Diggs and Jamal Adams, but allowing Diggs to leave would have been far more costly. He was arguably the league’s best coverage deep safety last season from Week 4 on and keeping him was a no-brainer even for this front office which has made so many high-profile blunders in recent years.
The best reason to re-sign Diggs is that he keeps a tight lid on the top of Seattle’s defense – plays that are erased before they even happen can be difficult to quantify – especially when you often won’t see what he’s doing from the broadcast angle. That doesn’t make it any less valuable.
