Seahawks Insider
where there is no offseason

Eric D. Williams took over the Seahawks beat and Seahawks Insider blog in December. Williams has covered the Seahawks, Sonics and high school sports for The News Tribune since joining the paper in 2006. Eric lives in Tacoma with his wife and two children.

Tacoma News Tribune columnist Dave Boling also contributes to the Seahawks Insider blog.

Blogroll
Calendar
June 2007
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 << < Current> >>
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Archives
XML Feeds
What is RSS?
Misc
Who's Online?
  • benramm Email
  • MrSinister Email
  • Dukeshire Email
  • artman77 Email
  • Dirtdawg Email
  • Guest Users: 405
Seahawks Insider
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Posted by Mike Sando @ 04:07:22 pm

Former Seahawks CB Kelly Herndon is expected to visit the Titans, Mike Reinfeldt told the Nashville City Paper. Reinfeldt, the Titans' new GM, was with the Seahawks when Seattle signed Herndon in early 2005. The Seahawks released Herndon last week because he wasn't interested in being a backup, coach Mike Holmgren said.

The Hawks saved $1.06 million against the 2007 salary cap by releasing Herndon. That figure represents his previously scheduled 2007 cap number (consisting of $2.5 million in base salary plus $720,000 in prorated bonus) minus the sum of all outstanding prorated bonus money (the aforementioned $720,000 plus equal amounts for 2008 and 2009).

Posted by Mike Sando @ 01:18:58 pm

We'll be adding former USC tackle Kyle Williams to the roster this afternoon. He joined the team in time for this minicamp. I saw him out there yesterday (No. 79) and thought of long-ago No. 79 Grant Williams, which tells you I've been covering this team a little while.

In other roster-related stuff, the league has made note of unrestricted free agents who were not asked to re-sign. For Seattle, the list included DE Kemp Rasmussen, CB Jimmy Williams and retiring C Robbie Tobeck. According to this league calendar maintained by the NFLPA, June 1 was the "deadline for old club to send tender to its unsigned Unrestricted Free Agents to retain rights if player is not signed by another club by July 22 or beginning of veteran training camp, whichever is earlier."

Posted by Mike Sando @ 01:02:52 pm

Mike Green was the Seahawks' starting strong safety when a severe foot injury took him down during training camp last summer. This was a lisfranc fracture, a dreaded injury that can end NFL careers. Green is back on the field in a limited capacity, jogging through some individual drills during minicamp practices. He resumed running about a month ago. The foot is still sore, but he plans to be ready to compete for a job at training camp.

"I am basically cleared to work out," Green said after practice today. "Next week I'll be able to do seven-on-seven." Prognoses can change, of course, but that is the plan for now. Green is returning to a remade secondary. Seattle put its free-agent money into Deon Grant and, to a lesser extent, Brian Russell.

Grant will start at one spot. Russell is the favorite at the other spot. Michael Boulware will compete for a job when he returns from injury, as will Green. "I'm not looking at the position (as a whole)," Green said. "I'm looking at getting healthy and competing at that level."

For more on the DB situation, check out our recent positional analysis.

Categories: Injuries, Minicamps
Posted by Mike Sando @ 06:47:27 am

The final two plays of practice Monday featured: D.J. Hackett Ben Obomanu diving to catch a pass on third-and-5, then extending for a first down; and Nate Burleson dropping a short pass on the left side. Alas, any two plays taken out of context might be used to show just about anything. But with Hackett coming off a strong season Obomanu fighting for a spot in the rotation and Burleson still trying to find his way, those two plays seemed more reliable than most.

UPDATE: Dave Boling pointed out to me that it was Obomanu, not Hackett, who made that grab, and in looking at my notes (blurred by the rain that was falling), I do see that I wrote down "87" (Obomanu's number) and not "18" (Hackett's number). It was definitely Burleson with that practice-ending drop, however.

Categories: Minicamps