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Updated Seahawks safety depth chart with Jamal Adams returning

Here’s our best estimate at what the team’s lavish depth chart at safety looks like following Adams’ return.

Jamal Adams will be returning to the Seattle Seahawks this week, nearly one full year removed from the quad injury that claimed all but a few snaps of his 2022 season. Today, the team announced that Adams passed his physical and will be joining walk-throughs soon.

Here’s our best estimate at what the team’s lavish depth chart at safety looks like following Adams’ return.

  • Quandre Diggs
  • Jamal Adams
  • Julian Love
  • Coby Bryant*
  • Jerrick Reed II
  • Jonathan Sutherland
  • Joey Blount
  • Ty Okada

From top to bottom, this is arguably the deepest safety room in the entire league. It had better be, since the Seahawks are spending about $10 million more than any other team at this spot.

*Coby Bryant is playing nickel while first-round draft pick Devon Witherspoon is out but has been mostly at safety this offseason.

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The Seahawks have been blessed with two sensational starting safety combos during the Pete Carroll era.

The Seahawks have been blessed with two sensational starting safety combos during the Pete Carroll era. It’ll be a long time before any team matches the might of prime Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor, but today’s iteration of Quandre Diggs and Jamal Adams is no pushover. Having those two patrol the back end of a fresh and different defensive scheme is one of many reasons for fans to feel hopeful about this unit in 2022.

Here’s Diggs describing how the new defense will help both him and Adams, per Brady Henderson at ESPN.

“I think it’s going to help both of us… I think guys can’t automatically tag [Adams] and say he’s in the box and he’s blitzing and slide his way. I’ve always learned from the different quarterbacks that I play with. They always watch the backside safety. And now with the backside safety just showing something different or kind of sitting there … you don’t know what we are in. You don’t know what checks we have. So I think that’s going to be dope.”

Adams also gave his stamp of approval, saying both he and Diggs are really excited to be a part of the change.

Diggs and Adams are both recovering from major injuries suffered late last season. Diggs broke his fibula and sprained his ankle in the final quarter of the last game of the year, while Adams missed the final month with yet another shoulder injury. Both are expected to be back to 100% by training camp.

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