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Seahawks trade CB Michael Jackson to Panthers for LB Michael Barrett

Seahawks trade CB Michael Jackson to Panthers for LB Michael Barrett

The Seattle Seahawks have just traded one Michael for another. On Thursday morning, in a rare player-for-player straight across trade, Seattle sent cornerback Michael Jackson to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for rookie linebacker Michael Barrett.

Originally a seventh round selection by Carolina in the 2024 NFL draft, Barrett is now reunited with his former defensive coordinator at Michigan in head coach Mike Macdonald. As for Jackson, he is reunited with a former Seahawks coach in Dave Canales, who is now the top man for the Panthers.

Barrett spent six years with Michigan, and became a legitimate force for the middle of the Wolverines defense. In his last two years with Big Blue, he recorded 137 total tackles, 6.5 sacks, and two interceptions. He was a Team Captain for Michigan last year, as the Wolverines went 15-0 and defeated the Washington Huskies to be National Champions last year.

The Seahawks are in need of more linebacker depth. Veteran Jerome Baker has been out for roughly two weeks with a hamstring issue. Although Seattle is planning to have him ready to go by Week 1, the Seahawks clearly need someone available now. Barrett will join fellow rookie Tyrice Knight as the two young bucks trying to shore up the linebackign corps.

Meanwhile, we at Seahawks Wire want to acknowledge cornerback Michael Jackson’s contributions to the team. In the last two years, Jackson has played in all 35 possible games, including 21 regular season starts. He was a solid player in Seattle’s secondary, but given how crowded the position has become with quality depth, someone was always going to be the odd man out. The Seahawks were fortunate to be able to move on from Jackson in a way that netted them another player to fill a position of need.

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Panthers trade 2024 draft pick to Seahawks for CB Michael Jackson

The Panthers have acquired CB Michael Jackson from the Seahawks.

The Carolina Panthers went a bit off the wall on Thursday.

As announced this afternoon, the team has acquired cornerback Michael Jackson in a trade with the Seattle Seahawks. The somewhat surprising swap will send rookie linebacker and 2024 seventh-round pick Michael Barrett out west.

A Second-team All-ACC member out of the University of Miami (Fla.), Jackson cracked into the NFL as a fifth-round selection of the Dallas Cowboys in 2019. He’d never log a regular-season snap for the Cowboys, however, as he was signed off their practice squad by the Detroit Lions a few months into his rookie campaign.

The 6-foot-1, 210-pounder appeared in just one game for Detroit in 2019 and one for the New England Patriots in 2020. Jackson moved on to Seattle in 2021, where he’d eventually start in 21 of his 36 contests through the 2023 campaign.

Heading over in exchange for Jackson is Barrett, whom the Panthers grabbed with this year’s 240th overall pick.

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NFL analyst urges Vikings to trade for Seahawks cornerback

With an overwhelming need at the position, Bleacher Report’s Alex Ballentine suggest the Vikings trade for Seahawks CB Michael Jackson.

It’s no secret that the Minnesota Vikings need help at cornerback. It was a position of weakness coming into the 2024 season, even before the tragic events of the offseason. That need has only become more evident as training camp has progressed, and sooner or later, the front office may be forced to do something about it.

If the Vikings want to get out of the gates on the right foot on defense, they should head off the problem now. That’s likely the thinking behind Bleacher Report’s Alex Ballentine suggesting the Vikings pull off a trade with the Seattle Seahawks for cornerback Michael Jackson.

As Ballentine sees it, the Seahawks have a surplus of talent at cornerback, and that has made Jackson expendable. Jackson has talent in his own right, but has struggled to see the field in Seattle, playing just 40% of the team’s defensive snaps last season after being a starter in 2022. In that 2022 season, Jackson gave up a passer rating of just 75.1, so there’s still a good cornerback in there.

The big question is, what would the Vikings have to give up to get Jackson? The answer is one that some may not want to hear: NFL Draft capital. A resource that the Vikings are already lacking next season. As it stands today, Minnesota has just four picks in next year’s draft. Would it be worth it to give up capital next year for a potential starter now?

Considering that Ballentine’s proposal is only a fifth-round pick, it makes sense for the Vikings to part with the capital if Jackson can tap into the player he was in 2022. Minnesota isn’t likely to get a cornerback of that caliber in the fifth round. Not to mention the freedom it would open up for the few picks that Minnesota does have if they suddenly don’t have to dedicate an early one to corner.

However, if Jackson can’t regain the form he had in 2022, when he was a dependable starter, Minnesota could be stuck in the same place it is today, with one less pick next year to help rectify the situation.

Pete Carroll explains why the Seahawks benched Riq Woolen

Carroll says Woolen couldn’t hold up tackling because of the shoulder.

You might have noticed something odd in the middle of the 49ers’ dominant win over the Seahawks last night. On the right side of the field, Mike Jackson could be seen playing the boundary where normally Riq Woolen is lined up. Woolen was pulled out of the game in the first half after whiffing on a few tackles as well as a friendly-fire incident near the sideline.

After the game was over, head coach Pete Carroll told reporters that Woolen’s shoulder was the reason why he put Jackson in. Carroll says he couldn’t hold up tackling because of the shoulder.

Woolen did not show up on the team’s injury report in the days leading up to last night’s game, so whatever it is it’s a new issue.

Aside from a shoulder stinger for Jason Peters, there have been no reports of any other injuries for the Seahawks coming out of the game.

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An FTW discussion about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift evolved into a heated Michael Jordan debate

Sometimes the FTW team needs to decompress, and by that we mean fiercely argue with each other about things that don’t matter.

As everyone knows, For The Win is a Famously Serious Sports Blog with a sterling reputation for hard-hitting reporting and innovative storytelling.

This proved true once again Thursday during an informal staff discussion that was supposed to be about Travis Kelce’s mortifying lack of rizz, but quickly turned into a passionate debate (read: fight) about fame, global relevance and whether Michael Jordan would be mobbed in Portugal.

Editor’s note: The following has been lightly edited for clarity but NOT grammar. Though we’re all technically “professional writers,” we use Slack to communicate as a team and are not beholden to the world’s arbitrary rules about “spelling” and “putting apostrophes where they belong.”

Grow up.

Studs and duds from Seahawks 19-15 Preseason Week 3 loss

It was a mostly uneventful game, at least compared to their last two surprisingly thrilling wins, but Seattle did make it interesting late. 

The Seattle Seahawks closed out the 2023 preseason with a 19-15 loss to the Green Bay Packers on the road. Seattle improved from their abysmal 0-3 record last year by going 2-1 in their exhibition games.

It was a mostly uneventful game, at least compared to their last two surprisingly thrilling wins, but Seattle did make it interesting late.

While ultimately the third and final preseason game is rather pointless, there still were those who stood out – both positively and negatively – as players try to make the final cut. With that being said, here are three studs and one dud.

Seahawks have 4 of the top 20 fastest ball carrier plays this season

Seattle has some of the fastest skill players in the league and that’s reflected on this list from Next Gen Stats.

Speed is the name of the game for the 2022 Seattle Seahawks. Coach Pete Carroll called this the fastest team he’s ever had heading into the season and it turns out that wasn’t hyperbole. Seattle has some of the fastest skill players in the league and that’s reflected on this list from Next Gen Stats.

Of the top 20 fastest ball carrier plays so far this season (four weeks), the Seahawks have accounted for four of them – with rookie cornerback Tariq Woolen taking up two spots. Here is the complete list.

Seahawks Mike Jackson returns blocked field goal 85 yards for TD

Special teams came up big for the Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks must be having a letdown against San Francisco on Sunday.

Fresh from an emotional win over Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos on MNF, Seattle’s offense has been flat against the 49ers.

Pete Carroll needed a big play and his special teams came up with one while trailing 20-0 in the third quarter.

Tariq Woolen broke through and blocked the Robbie Gould field-goal attempt.

Mike Jackson picked it up and ran 85 yards to get Seattle on the scoreboard.

CB Michael Jackson earned a spot on Seahawks roster by being himself

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Michael Jackson discusses his NFL journey to making the team’s 53-man roster through hard work and mental reps.

Cornerback Michael Jackson was one of the lucky players on Tuesday to remain with the team after the Seattle Seahawks trimmed their roster to the mandated 53-man limit.

Jackson was originally selected by the Cowboys in the 2019 NFL draft but signed with the Lions later that year. Ahead of the 2020 season, he was traded to the Patriots and spent most of the year on the practice squad. He was signed by Seattle last September as a practice-squad member and earned himself a future contract this January.

“It’s a journey,” Jackson told reporters during his press conference on Wednesday. “It is one of those things where I always believed there was light at the end of the tunnel. It’s just the beginning, I can’t stop now.”

Jackson has impressed throughout camp and was asked what the key has been to his success.

“I was just being me, I didn’t try to be anyone else,” Jackson said. “I worked hard and prepared my body and mind. All of those mental reps that I got last year for the whole season, all of that went into play.”

Jackson’s next big chance to prove himself will come Monday, Sept. 12 when the Seahawks host the Broncos to open their season.

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Secret Superstars for Week 3 of the 2022 NFL preseason: The defense

Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar lets you in on the most prominent under-the-radar defensive performances in the final week of the 2022 NFL preseason.

With final cuts just around the corner (all teams must reduce their rosters to 53 by Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. EST), and the 2022 regular season starting Thursday, September 8, anybody who doesn’t have a lock on a starting job tends to see the final week of the preseason as a sort of Hunger Games. At this point, you’re not just trying to impress your coaches and your teammates — you’re just trying to hang onto the roster spot you have, or give enough of an effort to make other teams aware. Perhaps one of those teams will pick you up if you do get cut.

Our Secret Superstars list for that final week of the preseason has a lot of guys who may have either evaded the Turk (the guy who comes to your room, knocks on your door, and quietly asks you to bring your playbook to the head coach’s office to let you know you’re off the team), or have done enough to eliminate any doubt as to their veracity as starters in the league.

The clock is ticking, oxygen is getting thin, and it’s all about to be for real. Here are the under-the-radar players who did the most to advance their cases for themselves in Week 3 of the 2022 preseason. Since there were so many of them this week, we’re splitting the list into two parts. The Secret Superstars All-Offense team is right here.

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