One-time Detroit Lions safety Quandre Diggs should be back from injury and ready for action for the full 2022 training camp and beyond, according to a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter. It’s good news for the pending free agent for the Seahawks, who should draw considerable interest from his old team in Detroit.
Diggs suffered a nasty-looking broken ankle in Seattle’s Week 17 win in Arizona. There was concern that the injury could linger into the coming season and impact Diggs’ availability, not to mention his next contract. The 29-year-old made the Pro Bowl in each of his two full seasons with the Seahawks.
Diggs was a popular player in Detroit from 2015 through the middle of the 2019 season, when he was traded by then-GM Bob Quinn. The move was wildly unpopular with both fans and inside the locker room in Detroit.
Seahawks’ free-agent-to-be safety Quandre Diggs is expected to be fully cleared from his ankle injury for all football activities in June, per sources. Diggs broke his ankle in week 17 of the NFL season but his doctors say he is recovering well.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 3, 2022
The Lions have never effectively replaced Diggs, the team’s sixth-round pick in 2015. He proved his playmaking ability with 13 interceptions in 38 games in Seattle, something that should make a potential reunion with the Lions an enticing proposition. No NFL safety has more INTs in the last two seasons than Diggs’ 10 in that period.