If you’re a safety and you’re at least 30 years old, you probably just got released.
The Seattle Seahawks released not one, but both starting safeties earlier this week. Jamal Adams was inevitable given his huge salary and deepening, performance-affecting injury history, whereas Quandre Diggs was a little bit more uncertain entering the offseason. We’re going to leave Adams aside as a special case and focus on a trend that’s happening throughout the NFL, and something I believe more closely impacted Diggs.
Diggs is one of a half-dozen safeties who’s both at least 30 years old and had an expiring contract ahead of the 2024 season. It could just be coincidence that there were several players at the position on expiring deals, but there are also much younger free agent safeties on the market such as Xavier McKinney, Geno Stone, Jeremy Chinn, and Julian Blackmon.
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