Seahawks release Quandre Diggs, Jamal Adams, Will Dissly
Seahawks start the process we have expected: Seaside Joe 1829
The Seattle Seahawks are releasing safeties Quandre Diggs and Jamal Adams, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The moves save $27.5 million in cash and roughly $18 million in cap space. Seattle is also releasing Will Dissly, a move that saves $7 million against the cap.
Though there was some speculation that the Seahawks wouldn’t want to part with the safeties, especially Diggs, the money saved was far too much to think that Seattle wouldn’t decide to part ways after making a change at head coach, defensive coordinator, and realistically a new GM. All three cuts were in my offseason salary cap plan posted last week.
Other cuts I have expected include Bryan Mone and Nick Bellore, while Tyler Lockett is probably the hardest pill to swallow but in a similar position to Diggs. They’re both popular players with fans, valuable players in their past, but Lockett has also seen his cap hit and cash flow exceed his on-field value after reaching 30. I wrote six reasons why Lockett might be released here.
Releasing Diggs was also in my article about the salary cap increase and noting potential cap casualties to come this offseason. Also that the Seahawks should “spend wisely” in the offseason and build a long-term vision, not just for 2024.
The Seahawks should have roughly $40 million in cap space for their top-51 contracts after these releases.
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For those of you getting the e-mail, the news of Will Dissly's release came right after I hit send. So it has since been upated with Dissly's release.
The Pete Caroll era really is over, as JS demonstrates he has no "my guys" to protect anymore. God i'm excited to see the Bellore cut news coming soon.
There is a bit of me that'll mis Diggs. He had some good times, but that injury, he was never the same. Adams less of a miss, we swung on a potentially special player and injuries really derailed that one. Somewhere there is an alternate universe where Jamal never got hurt, and went on to post four-straight seasons of 8+ sacks and totalled 8 INTs, leaving fans comparing him to Sherman and Thomas and Kam as a future-HOF DB. (That universe being my copy of Madden 21)