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Almost the entirety of Seattle Seahawks news at the trade deadline has concerned one main thing: what will happen to Riq Woolen? The cornerback was a breakout star in his rookie year back in 2022, when he managed a whopping 6 interceptions on the season, has seen the quality of his play diminish in 2025. Woolen is still the starter, although this could be partially down to former first round cornerback and two-time Pro Bowler, Devon Witherspoon, having missed five games to injury so far this season, it feels like time is running out for the former UTSA man. Yet, Ralph Vacchiano and Eric Williams of Fox Sports propose something different, that the Seahawks make a run at former veteran safety, Quandre Diggs. The Seahawks Encouraged To Return Familiar Face DB Given the injuries to the secondary; which also extend to starter-when-healthy, Julian Love; and below-par play, the pair suggest that a reunion with Diggs, who played for the team from 2019-2022, earning three Pro Bowls with the organizatoin, “could make sense”. “Starting safety Julian Love has a nagging hamstring injury that has kept him out of four games and could force him onto the injured list.” Vacchiano and Williams wrote on Thursday. “Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon has played in only two games this season due to a knee injury, though he could return against Washington this week. And the Seahawks have gotten inconsistent play from corner Tariq Woolen”. “A homecoming for veteran safety Quandre Diggs, languishing with the lowly Tennessee Titans, could make sense for the Seahawks to solidify things in the second.” Perhaps a more macro argument for why this trade could be pulled off by both sides, as pointed out by one of Vacchiano and Williams’ unnamed league sources, is that it tends to be easier to trade for a safety mid-season, pre-deadline, than to find a capable starting corner. ‘”There is usually a robust safety market with a reliable yet descending veteran,” a league source told me. “As opposed to a corner, where there is usually nothing unless you need a nickel.”‘ Vacchiano and Williams continued. Quandre Diggs Had His Best Career Years In Seattle Diggs had an excellent first spell in the Pacific North West, having been traded for a fifth round pick from the Detroit Lions a couple of months into the 2019 season. Under Pete Carroll and co., the former Texas product became one of the better ball-hawking safeties in the league, generating five interceptions each in his first two full seasons with the Seahawks in 2020 and 2021, and subsequently managing 4 in 2022 after signing a three-year, $40 million extension that offseason. After a good, but slight down season in 2023, Diggs was released in 2024 and ultimately signed with the Tennessee Titans, whom he has played all 8 games for so far this season.
