With the arrival of safety Jamal Adams, the Seattle Seahawks have a force to be reckoned with in the secondary. Adams happens to share a friendship with fellow safety Quandre Diggs that goes back to their college days.
“I was going to the University of Texas, obviously looking for the school I wanted to go to, and Quandre was there,” Adams told local media during a video press conference last week. “Quandre really wanted me to come very, very bad, he was my host. We had a great time on Sixth Street – I’ll never forget it, we had a great time.”
Adams and Diggs have kept their kinship strong ever since that time, and they constantly engaged in conversation during Diggs’ tenure with the Lions, when Adams was a relative greenhorn with the Jets.
“Me and Quandre have been close ever since, even when he was in Detroit, we talked literally every day,” Adams said. “He’d hit me up and say ‘I like that play you made,’ I’ll hit him and say ‘you ballin’ out there.’ We always talk. He’s like a brother to me. We’ve known each other for a very long time. We always talked about ‘what if we played together?’”
Adams gave Diggs a call after the former discovered that he got traded to the Emerald City, against the advice of his own agent.
“He was one of the first people that I called when I did find out that I got traded,” Adams said. “It was Saturday and my agent was like ‘man, don’t tell anybody, like that you’re getting traded to Seattle,’ and I was like alright, then I called Quandre and said man, ‘It might go through, it might go through.’”
As the two primary safeties, Adams and Diggs must anchor the secondary while making and preventing big plays. The two of them certainly look promising on paper, but will it translate to the field in 2020?
