With their season crumbling under the weight of a three-game losing streak after Week Seven combined with the loss of starting running back Kerryon Johnson to a knee injury, fans of the Detroit Lions figured the team would make some changes to help them find success during the second half of the season.
Instead, the Lions brass elected to make a confusing trade, sending starting safety Quandre Diggs and a 2021 seventh-round pick to the Seattle Seahawks for fifth-rounder in 2020. Although Diggs had been underperforming though the first half of the season, he was coming off a career-year where he posted 78 total tackles, eight pass defends, and three interceptions.