Lions trade starting safety Quandre Diggs to Seahawks

The Lions will ship defensive back Quandre Diggs and a 2021 seventh-round pick to the Seahawks for a 2020 fifth-round draft pick, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets.  Diggs, 26, was asked to carry more of the load this year after the Lions moved on from Glover Quin. The safety started in five contests this year, notching 20 tackles in total. For his work, Pro Football Focus has him graded as just the No. 61-ranked safety in the NFL, but historically, PFF’s advanced metrics have held him in high regard. Diggs is signed through the 2021 campaign thanks to the three-year, $20.4M extension he signed with Detroit in 2018. Still, the Seahawks can easily escape his deal, if they want to, after this season. The Seahawks’ secondary is a long way from the Legion of Boom days, and an experienced player like Diggs was badly needed in Seattle. Still, the Seahawks’ training staff will have to give Diggs some attention if the team wants him to stay on the field — the former sixth-rounder has seen limited snaps since Week 4 du

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