Because training camps have not yet started for NFL teams, national pundits are free to discuss nearly anything that may or may not happen. That includes where former New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs might end up. What should be clear is that he won't be with the Seattle Seahawks.
The bottom line is that Diggs simply would be a terrible fit in the current culture of the team that plays home games at Lumen Field. Maybe under former head coach Pete Carroll, who liked to give players a second or third chance, even if they had no real ties to the organization.
That was when Carroll made the roster decisions in Seattle. He no longer does that, and he hasn't in more than two years. Now, general manager John Schneider has roster control, and he almost certainly gets input from current coach Mike Macdonald.
Stefon Diggs seems like a potential terrible fit for the Seattle Seahawks
Maybe Exhibit A (and, well...B) with the influence that Macdonald has instead of Carroll is the team trading quarterback Geno Smith and wide receiver DK Metcalf last offseason. Those players saw themselves as bigger than the team and requested trades. Unfortunately for them, the Seahawks were better off without them.
While Smith's new team, the Las Vegas Raiders, went 3-14, which ended with Pete Carroll being fired after one season as the franchise's new coach, and Smith was traded to the New York Jets, and Metcalf's new team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, came nowhere near a title, Seattle was busy winning a Super Bowl. They must have eggs on their faces.
Smith and Metcalf were also volatile personalities, and in their place, John Schneider brought in Sam Darnold and Cooper Kupp, respectively. Those players have relatively little ego and are clearly team-first players. That would be the opposite of what Stefon Diggs is.
Diggs has been productive on the field, but his personal life has seen quite the turmoil, from paternity tests to physical abuse allegations (Diggs was recently found not guilty of an allegation involving a personal chef last December), to being seen on video with a pink substance while on a boat.
While Diggs might not have done most of those things with the understanding that they may or may not have been illegal (the paternity test was positive), they are the type of off-field distractions that the Seattle Seahawks have intentionally tried to avoid over the last year.
The bottom line is that while Stefon Diggs might still be a decent player, and the Seattle wide receiver room is a bit iffy after Jaxon Smith-Njigba, the former Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, and Houston Texans wideout doesn't seem like a good fit with the current Seahawks regime. That's a good thing.
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