Quandre Diggs Joins The Richard Sherman Podcast

Good morning, 12s. Here’s a look at what’s out there today – Wednesday, April 12 – about your Seattle Seahawks.

Quandre Diggs, one of Seattle’s best defensive backs and one of the NFL’s best safeties, joined one of the best defensive backs in Seahawks history for a conversation on Tuesday as a guest on the Richard Sherman Podcast.

Right off the bat, the two discussed Diggs’ efforts to bring Bobby Wagner back to Seattle, with Sherman referring to him as “The ultimate recruiter.”

Diggs said recruiting Wagner, who ended up signing with the Seahawks last month, reminded him of his college days. Diggs also acknowledged that his constant efforts might have started to annoy Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider.

“This was the five-star recruit we had to get,” he said. “… I know Pete and John were getting sick of me. I was sending them old pictures of me and Bobby together at practice, I’m sending them pictures of me and Bobby talking after we played the Rams, all type of stuff. I go on twitter, doing my tweets, and you get the fans behind it, and it’s hard for the GM and coach to let the fans down. I got the fans all with it.”

Sherman added that Wagner’s signing was, “A great idea for both sides… It’ s a match made in heaven. You got a great, All-Pro steal.”

While Diggs and Sherman were never teammates in Seattle, the two have known each other for a long time. When Sherman was at Stanford and Diggs still in high school, they met at a camp attended by Sherman and by Diggs’ older brother, former NFL cornerback Quentin Jammer.

“When I met you, I was 17, getting ready to go to Texas,” Diggs said. “… You got to the league and started doing your thing, and I was like, ‘Dang, he gave me words of encouragement before I went to Texas.'”

Diggs went onto look up to the Seahawks’ Legion of Boom secondary led by Sherman, Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas, making it something of a full-circle moment when was traded to Seattle in 2019.

“Y’all boys made DB fun again,” he told Sherman. “You were swagging it out… When I was in college, I was like, ‘I want to get to a secondary like that.'”

Upon joining the Seahawks, Diggs thought, “You know you’ve got to shine… You look around and you’re like, ‘Bruh, I got a standard to uphold.'”