Optimistic view on Diggs Signing
Here's why signing Diggs makes sense:
1. Elite ball skills. In 67 career games, Diggs has 20 interceptions and 63 passes defensed, including a league-leading 11 picks in the 2021 All-Pro season.
2. Seahawks desperately needs corners. We are thinner in the secondary after losing Tariq Woolen to the Eagles and Coby Bryant to the Bears in free agency, and our planned addition, Terrion Arnold, faces eight felony charges and will land on the commissioner’s exempt list.
3. Low-risk, high-upside deal. It’s a one-year contract for a player who’s still just 27 and will turn 28 during the 2026 season. If it doesn’t work, there’s no long-term cost. Diggs and Jobe are only a few months apart in age.
4. Familiar faces in the building. Diggs knows Seahawks secondary coach Karl Scott from Alabama and defensive coordinator Aden Durde from Dallas, plus ex-Cowboys teammates DeMarcus Lawrence & Dante Fowler Jr. is in the locker room.
5. Great coaching environment. Mike Macdonald is a defensive mastermind who could maximize whatever talent Diggs has left and he’s joining the defending Super Bowl champions. Seahawks D ranked #1 in DVOA.
6. Motivated contract year. After being cut by two teams in a month, Diggs is playing for his career and that’s the kind of hunger you want on a cheap deal.
Conclusion: This is a buy-low move by the Seahawks. They get a former All-Pro ballhawk at a position of sudden need, for one year, with built-in coaching connections and nothing to lose. The real question is HEALTH. He's played just 22 games over the past three seasons due to knee issues, but if the coaching staff keeps him on the field, then we may have landed the steal of late free agency.