The Seattle Seahawks only got a taste of what Quandre Diggs can bring to this defense. The star safety only managed to play in five games with Seattle last year, after coming over in a midseason trade with the Detroit Lions and promptly missing a handful of games with a hamstring injury.
Now, while Diggs is eager to get back on the field with his teammates in 2020, he also acknowledges the world’s current events take precedence, and he’s worried about considerably more than just football for the time being.
“The pandemic is bigger than football at the moment,” Diggs told Seattle media members on Thursday. “I mean, I’ve got a 10-month-old daughter that I’ve got to take care of. I have an 87-year-old grandmother that I’ve got to keep safe.”
The NFL is slowly allowing facilities to open this week, and the NCAA is allowing football and basketball to start doing activities in June as well, a sign the country is inching closer to live sports in the Fall.
Diggs wouldn’t comment on when or how he believes football will return to the Seattle area, which is currently still mostly locked down. The team’s practice facility, located in Renton, Washington, has yet to re-open.
“At the end the day, this pandemic is bigger than football,” Diggs continued. “I just think we’ve got to let all the facts—we’ve got to let all the doctors and the scientists, let those guys figure it all out. I mean, whatever Goodell or whoever makes the announcement that we’ll come back and play ball, then we’ll just go from there.”
“I’m not here to assume anything,” Diggs continued. “I hope we have a season. I do. But at the end of the day we’ve got to look after, and look at all the facts, and see then.”
Diggs, who is entering his sixth NFL season, knows he will be ready to suit up as soon as the league is ready to begin the year. With his injury issues behind him, the Seahawks will get a look at their dominant safety tandem for (hopefully) an entire season in 2020, if and when the season begins in September.
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