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40 Seahawks players who should make the initial 53-man roster

To put it another way, these are the 40 most important players on the team right now.

The Seattle Seahawks will begin their 2023 preseason tomorrow tonight, hosting the Minnesota Vikings at Lumen Field. These three preseason games are all about determining which players will make the team’s initial 53-man roster at the end of the month. There are a couple dozen players who could go either way, but we are pretty sure that these 40 will make the cut.

To put it another way, these are the 40 most important players on the team right now.

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Mark Schlereth: Seahawks DBs deeper than the Legion of Boom

It may sound like blasphemy, but he’s right, keeping in mind that depth wasn’t what made the LOB great.

Yesterday Mark Schlereth was a guest on the Brock and Salk show and made some interesting comments regarding the Seahawks’ roster. For one thing, Schlereth thinks Seattle’s current secondary is deeper than the Legion of Boom was. Watch.

It may sound like blasphemy, but he’s right, keeping in mind that depth wasn’t what made the LOB great – it was three Hall of Famers along with a rotating cast of mostly-forgettable DBs. Brandon Browner, Byron Maxwell and Jeremy Lane all had their good qualities, but there’s a reason why people only think of Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor and Richard Sherman when they hear LOB.

Meanwhile, this current Seahawks secondary has three Pro-Bowlers in Riq Woolen, Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs. They also have a top-five overall pick in Devon Witherspoon, two respectable corners in Tre Brown and Mike Jackson, a Jim Thorpe award winner with Coby Bryant and the remarkably underrated safety Julian Love.

There are better secondary units around the NFL, but this one has a chance to earn the title of the deepest in the league.

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Brian Baldinger at NFL Network agrees.

It’s been a while since the Seahawks had one of the top secondaries in the NFL, but the group they’ve put together going into 2023 certainly looks like a top-five unit on paper. Like their Legion of Boom days, Seattle has a few Pro Bowlers on the back end of their defense, including safeties Quandre Diggs and Jamal Adams, as well as a top-five overall draft pick in rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon.

However, the rock star of the group is second-year cornerback Riq Woolen, a fifth-round draft pick who took the league by storm as a rookie. While he didn’t win the Defensive Rookie of the Year award, Woolen’s athleticism and the potential he showed in 2022 makes him one of the best breakout candidates in the sport.

Brian Baldinger at NFL Network agrees. He has named Woolen the No. 1 breakout candidate at his position going into the 2023 season.

Woolen’s game is still a bit raw as is common for most cornerbacks with his level of experience. Even still, as a rookie he managed to post six interceptions and 16 pass breakups, while only allowing a 51.5% completion rate and just a 48.7 passer rating in coverage. Those are superstar type numbers from a player who still has yet to learn a lot of the finer points of playing his position.

For now DK Metcalf remains the best football player on the team. However, if there’s one guy who has a shot at surpassing him it’s No. 27.

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Seahawks 2023 training camp: 7 takeaways from Sunday’s practice

They’ve also made a few notable roster moves as we move into the first week of the 20323 NFL preseason.

The Seattle Seahawks had a couple of special guests at their latest training camp practice yesterday. They also made a few notable roster moves as we move into the first week of the 2023 NFL preseason.

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40 Seahawks players who should make the initial 53-man roster

Seahawks 2023 training camp: 75 photos from the first 2 practices

Here are 75 photos from the first few days of camp at the VMAC.

The Seattle Seahawks have finished two practices on their 2023 training camp schedule. The third will begin later this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time.

For now, here are 75 photos from the first few days of camp at the VMAC.

Seahawks 2023 training camp: 7 takeaways from Day 1 of practice

Here are seven takeaways from the team and the media at the VMAC.

Yesterday the Seattle Seahawks held their first of nine training camp practices that are open to the public this year. The usual beat reporters were also on-site, taking in the team’s next step towards the 2023 NFL season.

Here are seven takeaways from the team and the media at the VMAC.

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Seahawks place 6 players on PUP list to start training camp

The Seattle Seahawks have placed six players on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list to start training camp.

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Tariq Woolen takes issue with his player rating in Madden 24

Here’s Woolen’s rating along with the rest of the cornerbacks and tight ends on Seattle’s roster.

The Madden 24 ratings are almost all out. Yesterday EA Sports released the ratings for cornerbacks and tight ends in the game and later today it’ll be the QBs. One guy who’s not happy with his rating is Seahawks second-year cornerback Tariq Woolen, who shared his reaction on Twitter:

Here’s Woolen’s rating along with the rest of the cornerbacks and tight ends on Seattle’s roster.

CB Tariq Woolen: 83
CB Devon Witherspoon: 78
TE Noah Fant: 78
TE Will Dissly: 77
CB Mike Jackson: 74
CB Coby Bryant: 73
TE Colby Parkinson: 70
CB Artie Burns: 69
CB Tre Brown: 69
CB Isaiah Dunn: 66
CB Arquon Bush: 64
CB Lance Boykin: 63
TE Tyler Mabry: 60
TE/LS Chris Stoll: 33

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