Here's the release from the Seahawks:

KIRKLAND, WASH. — The Seattle Seahawks will hold its annual team scrimmage on Saturday, August 4, at Memorial Stadium located at Seattle Center. The scrimmage begins at 5 p.m. Tickets will be available at seahawks.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, and the Qwest Field Box Office beginning Monday, July 23, at 10 a.m.

All proceeds from the scrimmage will benefit TEAM Seattle Athletics, a non-profit organization created to assist the Seattle School District to raise funds in order to supplement existing financial support for athletic programs at all district schools.

Ticket prices are $12 for adults, and $5 for kids (ages 6-17). Fans under the age of five are free. Tickets are limited and there is an eight ticket maximum. General admission for the 90-minute scrimmage opens at 2 p.m. A player autograph session will take place immediately following the scrimmage.

Prior to the scrimmage, the team will host a Gatorade Jr. Training Camp (ages 8-14) at 2 p.m. Participants will have the chance to work with Seahawks alumni and local high school coaches to learn football fundamentals, techniques and skills. Participants must register through seahawks.com.

The team will begin the 2007 NWCN Seahawks Training Camp on Sunday, July 29, and will host an open practice at the University of Washington on Wednesday, August 8, starting at 8:45 a.m. Admission is free.

Okay, troops, I hope you’re ready … Seahawk rookies report in a week.

As the rookie signings have trickled in, we’ve blogged the heck out of them and I’ve offered whatever memory snapshots I’ve been able to call up from seeing them in minicamps. But the prospects of this crop of rookies has been a recurrent question here, so you obviously want to continue batting around the topic.

As a group, a common identity of the draft picks is that they are obviously "Ruskell" players. It's a motivated and intelligent bunch with a lot of degrees and academic accolades. Usually, the team's first-round pick serves as the face of the draft, but there was no first-rounder this year.

So, with one week until these guys show up and start getting after it, let’s collect our thoughts on their chances and potential impact.

--Josh Wilson. The first two flash impressions of this kid are that he’s too short but he’s very competitive. After watching him play a little, he didn’t seem to “play short,” but he was, indeed, competitive. He’s got really good make-up speed and looks to have nice timing and elevation for getting up to knock the ball away from taller receivers. I remember seeing Bobby Engram sneak in front of him and get a catch with a veteran move, but I also saw him get up high to knock away a deep pass to Nate Burleson.

When Kelly Jennings arrived as last year’s first-rounder, he looked extremely thin (5-11, 180). Wilson is 5-9, 192 and looks sturdier than Jennings. Wilson may be the fastest man on the team. He reportedly was clocked at 4.28 in the 40. Sound like a kickoff returner to you? He averaged 27.3 yards per kickoff return last season, and ran one back 100 yards for a touchdown.

Beyond that, as a business administration major, he won the award given to the top football-playing scholar in the ACC.

What Wilson also has is a hyper-competitive attitude. He said he’s always been that way, and that he was born six days before the scheduled arrival just because he wanted to get a head-start on things.

Chances: He should be the team’s No. 3 cornerback right off, and see a lot of time in the nickel while also getting every chance to earn the returner’s job and gunner’s job on coverage units.

--Brandon Mebane. The third-round defensive tackle is listed as a third-teamer behind Rocky Bernard and Marcus Tubbs. At 6-1, 314, he looks like a larger Chuck Darby, with a low center of gravity and great leverage. They liked the way he was stout at the point of attack, shed his blocker and met the back in the hole. Of course, the Seahawks can’t get enough of that.

In early workouts, he looked like a high-energy guy who also might have that first-step quickness to get in the gap and disrupt things. I came away impressed by his aggressiveness.

Chances: There’s a pretty big pile at those DT spots, with much depending on players’ health, particularly Marcus Tubbs. There’s at least five guys on the inside with experience (Darby, Tubbs, Bernard, Terrill, Davis), so Mebane will have to open some eyes to earn early playing time.

--Baraka Atkins. The fourth-round defensive end also played defensive tackle at Miami, but he looks more like a rangy edge-rush guy. Some of his numbers are very impressive; at 6-4, 271, he has been clocked in 4.69 in the 40. Early impression based on very limited evidence: If he turns out to be a high-motor guy, he might really be a steal. But I’ll be interested to see if he revs it up when camp starts.

Chances: Atkins walks into a spot without great depth, and is listed as the No. 2 left defensive end behind Patrick Kerney.

--Mansfield Wrotto. The second fourth-rounder caused me to wonder about the rarity of an offensive lineman named “Mansfield.” He said coaches call him “Manny.” He’s 6-3, 320 with very little experience at guard. He was a defensive tackle at Georgia Tech before being moved to offensive tackle as a senior. He’s obviously thick and powerful, but I didn’t see much that caused me to notice great technique or nimbleness. Guards don’t always have to, though, they need to be tough and reliable and preferably nasty. One of the scouting reports called him a “developmental project,” and I’d probably go along with that assessment.

Chances: Chris Gray is aging at right guard, but there are other candidates to fill in when needed. Wrotto should have time to learn the position.

--Linebacker Will Herring. The converted safety looks too lean, at 221 pounds, to be an every play linebacker. He won’t have to be for now. He is obviously quick and reportedly aggressive and smart.

Chances: If he gets on the field, it will be as a special teams guy.

--The Hawks took two receivers in the sixth round, Auburn’s Courtney Taylor and Oregon’s Jordan Kent. Taylor looks smoother since he’s played the position longer. Kent was a former basketball and track guy with the Ducks who is still raw at receiver but immediately among the most talented pure athletes on the team.

Chances: The position is stocked and these guys will have to sit around a while.

--Seventh-round guard Steve Vallos looked good and scrappy to me in minicamp. He seemed to have more attitude than Wrotto.

Chances: He’s going to have to be very convincing in camp.

Free agents. Of the rookie free agents, Holmgren pointed out receivers Joe Fernandez and Logan Payne. Fernandez should have the chance to show himself on special teams as he was a returner at Fresno State, scoring once on a 72-yard punt return. Tight end Joe Newton of Oregon State is 6-7 and is at a position without proven depth.