National chatter can fill the dead space before training camps open, and Stefon Diggs has become one of the names floating around again. But if you’re looking for a Seattle Seahawks landing spot, the answer looks pretty simple: don’t count on it.
The reason isn’t hard to see. Diggs may still have something to offer on the field, but the current Seahawks setup doesn’t look like a place built for that kind of gamble.
Under Pete Carroll, Seattle was more willing to hand out second and third chances, even to players with no real connection to the organization. That’s not the way this team operates now.
John Schneider has had roster control for more than two years, with Mike Macdonald also weighing in on personnel. And that shift matters.
The Seahawks have already shown what that new approach looks like, trading Geno Smith and DK Metcalf last offseason after both players wanted out and saw themselves as bigger than the team. Seattle moved on, and the results were better without them.
Smith’s new team, the Las Vegas Raiders, finished 3-14, which led to Pete Carroll being fired after one season as the franchise’s new coach, and Smith was traded to the New York Jets. Metcalf’s new team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, also fell well short of a title. Meanwhile, Seattle was winning a Super Bowl.
The replacements told the story, too. Schneider brought in Sam Darnold and Cooper Kupp, two players described as having relatively little ego and as team-first types. That’s the opposite of the profile Diggs brings.
And the off-field baggage is impossible to ignore. Diggs has had a turbulent personal life, with paternity tests, physical abuse allegations, a recent not guilty finding in a case involving a personal chef last December, and video of him on a boat with a pink substance. Whether or not he intended most of that to be illegal, those are exactly the kinds of distractions Seattle has tried to steer clear of over the last year.
So even with the Seahawks’ wide receiver room looking shaky behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Diggs still doesn’t look like the right match for this regime. That’s probably for the best.
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