RENTON, Wash. -- Pete Carroll didn't think he could acquire a safety of Quandre Diggs' caliber to reinforce the suddenly thin back end of the Seattle Seahawks' secondary. Diggs never thought he'd be traded only a year after signing an extension with the Detroit Lions and less than two months after being named a team captain.
He was every bit as stunned as his former Lions teammates to find out he'd been dealt to the Seahawks along with a 2021 seventh-round pick in exchange for a 2020 fifth-rounder.
"I was blindsided by it honestly," Diggs said Wednesday.