RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks open the 2022 common season towards the Denver Broncos on Sept. 12.
There’s a lot to be sorted out roster-wise earlier than Russell Wilson makes his much-anticipated return to Lumen Subject on Monday Evening Soccer. The Seahawks do not know whether or not Drew Lock or Geno Smith shall be their starter, and primarily based on Pete Carroll’s feedback about how they’re in “good condition” at quarterback, it seems like they’re content material letting their present choices battle it out for now.
However will that change if Lock and Smith falter and both Jimmy Garoppolo or Baker Mayfield turn out to be free brokers?
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The opposite large query is in Seattle’s backfield, with no phrase but on whether or not Chris Carson will return from neck surgical procedure.
QUARTERBACK (2): Geno Smith, Drew Lock
Some contained in the Virginia Mason Athletic Middle consider Lock’s expertise will win out, however Smith remains to be within the pole place, having taken the first-team reps throughout OTAs and minicamp. Carroll will weigh preseason video games closely when figuring out the winner, as he did 10 years in the past when Wilson beat out Matt Flynn. The Seahawks have sometimes carried solely two quarterbacks on their 53-man roster, however they could hold a 3rd now that they not have a starter as sturdy as Wilson was for many of the previous decade. Jacob Eason is at the moment the No. 3.
RUNNING BACK (4): Rashaad Penny, Ken Walker III, Travis Homer, DeeJay Dallas
Between the character of his damage and what Carroll has mentioned about it, Carson’s standing is sounding extra uncertain than questionable. For now, Penny is within the driver’s seat to be the first again after ending final season on a tear and returning on a one-year deal. However he has an extended damage historical past and a second-round choose in Walker vying for a share of the early-down work. Homer and Dallas are digital locks due to what they supply on particular groups and in change-of-pace backfield roles.
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WIDE RECEIVER (6): DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Freddie Swain, Dee Eskridge, Penny Hart, Bo Melton
Metcalf surprisingly skipped necessary minicamp in an obvious assertion about his unsettled contract state of affairs. The Seahawks are nonetheless optimistic about extending him, but it surely does not look like a slam dunk given how expensive the receiver market has turn out to be. In the event that they do get a deal completed, then the highest 4 of Metcalf, Lockett, Swain and Eskridge are set. Veteran Marquise Goodwin is among the many gamers vying for one of many closing spots.
TIGHT END (3): Will Dissly, Noah Fant, Colby Parkinson
There is a perception within the group that whichever quarterback finally ends up beginning for Seattle shall be extra inclined to throw to tight ends than Wilson was. The latest investments the Seahawks have made there — bringing again Dissly on a larger-than-expected deal and choosing up Fant’s fifth-year choice after buying him within the Wilson commerce — recommend they count on tight ends to be a much bigger a part of their offense. Carroll mentioned Fant “had perhaps essentially the most spectacular camp of anyone.” The Seahawks suppose Parkinson, a fourth-round choose in 2020, has breakout potential.
OFFENSIVE LINE (9): Charles Cross, Damien Lewis, Austin Blythe, Gabe Jackson, Abraham Lucas, Jake Curhan, Stone Forsythe, Dakoda Shepley, Phil Haynes
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The Seahawks selected Cross ninth total — making him their highest draft choose since 2010 — to exchange Duane Brown at left sort out. Then they doubled up within the third spherical with Lucas, who’s competing with Curhan and Forsythe on the best facet. So the Seahawks may have two rookie starters at sort out, which is exceedingly uncommon. Based on ESPN Stats & Data, solely two groups since 1970 have began two rookie tackles in Week 1.
DEFENSIVE LINE (6): Al Woods, Poona Ford, Quinton Jefferson, Shelby Harris, Bryan Mone, L.J. Collier
The Seahawks acquired Harris within the Wilson commerce and re-signed Jefferson, who returns to Seattle after two seasons away. Collier is in a contract yr, with Seattle declining the fifth-year choice on its 2019 first-round choose after three underwhelming seasons.
The $9.5 million common of Nwosu’s two-year deal makes him Seattle’s highest-paid free-agent addition underneath Carroll and common supervisor John Schneider. The Seahawks added three outdoors linebackers in Nwosu, Mafe (second spherical) and Smith (fifth spherical) as a part of their plan to include extra 3-4 appears into their protection. Robinson’s roster spot does not appear safe after a down second season in 2021.
INSIDE LINEBACKER (5): Jordyn Brooks, Cody Barton, Joel Iyiegbuniwe, Nick Bellore, Tanner Muse
That is the primary season since 2010 that neither Bobby Wagner nor Okay.J. Wright are manning the center of Seattle’s protection. Barton, a 2019 third-round choose, is lastly getting an opportunity to be a full-time starter after Wagner was launched. It is a step again in expertise, however Barton and Brooks give the Seahawks a quicker linebacker duo than they’ve had in latest seasons.
Re-signing the 29-year-old Diggs to a three-year, $39 million deal made it clear that the Seahawks aren’t in full-on rebuild mode regardless of the way it might need seemed after they moved on from Wilson and Wagner. Anticipate Diggs and Adams for use interchangeably and to maneuver round extra earlier than the snap with the intention to disguise appears. That would assist reignite Adams as a pass-rusher.
CORNERBACK (5): Sidney Jones IV, Coby Bryant, Tre Brown, Tariq Woolen, Artie Burns
It is essentially the most wide-open place group on Seattle’s protection, with nobody entrenched in both of the 2 beginning spots. Jones has the sting for certainly one of them given his expertise and the truth that he is wholesome, not like Brown, who’s coming off knee surgical procedure. Seahawks coaches have raved about Bryant’s smarts and ball abilities. Seattle introduced again Justin Coleman to compete with Blair and Amadi at nickelback.
SPECIALIST (3): Okay Jason Myers, P Michael Dickson, LS Tyler Ott
The Seahawks have been fifth final season in Soccer Outsiders DVOA scores for particular groups. That was regardless of an up-and-down yr from Myers, who is ready to make a non-guaranteed $4 million within the closing yr of his contract. Seattle hasn’t introduced in one other kicker to compete for the job.
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The MLB offseason is in full swing, but things have been rather quiet for the Seattle Mariners so far.
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President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and general manager Justin Hollander are both on record saying the team is looking to add to its offense, particularly on the infield. But the team hasn’t been committal to how exactly they’ll approach that.
Seattle could look to upgrade in free agency. This year’s class isn’t very strong on the infield, but there are still a handful of options that seem to fit the club’s needs.
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The team also could go the trade route and offload some of its touted hitting prospects or a proven starter from its talented starting rotation to address its offensive needs. It seems more likely the trade route would include a package built around prospects rather than one of the team’s current starting pitchers. Both Dipoto and Hollander have said trading a starter isn’t one of their top options, with Dipoto calling it “Plan Z” during an end-of-season interview.
Seattle Sports’ Michael Bumpus is trying to read between the lines and figure out what the real plan is for the M’s this offseason. During Thursday’s edition of Bump and Stacy, he asked ESPN baseball insider Kiley McDaniel about the team’s offseason approach.
“They’re in a spot now where they have tried for, I guess, a couple offseasons now to shore up the offense while staying within their spending parameters,” McDaniel said. “There was that time four or five years ago (the 2019 season) where there was the quick reset where they underpaid relative to what they could have paid the payroll to then have more money to, then ramp up spending when the team was good. And that has now happened and they need an extra bat or two, but they don’t have the money to go on the free agent market and just pay $20-25 million per year to get the two bats they need.”
That puts the Mariners in a difficult spot decision-wise, McDaniel said. They could trade from the farm system and risk dealing away a future star for a shorter-term solution. Or they could go for under-the-radar signings of cheaper players, which hasn’t worked out in past seasons with the likes of AJ Pollock and Tommy La Stella.
“There’s no easy solution to this the same way that like (if) the Mets or the Dodgers want a hitter, they just get a hitter,” McDaniel said. “The Mariners have a puzzle and they’re missing a piece. So how do they manufacture that extra piece to solve the puzzle, which is basically spending $1 million on a guy that will be worth 20, or not trading a prospect that they think is good and getting a good player. They have to conjure something up kind of magically.”
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McDaniel said the easiest route for the front office may be one fans don’t want to hear after the past two seasons, which is being patient and waiting for the group of hitting prospects to start reaching the majors. Just two of the team’s top hitting prospects are projected to reach the big leagues this year by MLB Pipeline – second baseman Cole Young and catcher Harry Ford. Both played at the Double-A level last season, and Young is expected to start the 2025 season in Triple-A.
“They’ve done a really good job creating a good farm system full of young hitters,” McDaniel said. “So I think unfortunately … the easiest answer is to just wait a year or two until these guys come up and then you maybe have the homegrown solution, but then some of the veterans that are contributing right now, they might be gone, which then creates another problem. … There is not an easy solution to this issue other than raising payroll, which is obviously only up to the owner.”
A free agent fit M’s
McDaniel spoke about a few free agents who would fit the Mariners’ needs. Two were players McDaniel would advise teams not to sign: first basemen Justin Turner and Pete Alonso. Both were included as two of his free agents to avoid this offseason.
Someone who McDaniel thinks makes sense for Seattle to go after, though, is former New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres.
“Gleyber Torres (is) coming off a slightly disappointing year, one of the youngest guys in the free agent market (at) 28. I think two or three years at $15 to 17 (million) a year is probably what it costs,” McDaniel said. “He’s the guy that I think makes a lot of sense to possibly get some upside, get him locked in for multiple years (and he) can play multiple positions.”
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Torres was an All-Star in his first two seasons (2018-19), slugged a career-high 38 home runs during 2019 and produced a 113 OPS+ or higher in four of his first six seasons.
He hit a combined 49 home runs in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, but saw his power numbers decline and hit just 15 last season. In 154 games in 2024, he slashed .257/.330/.378 with a 1.7 fWAR.
“You have a chance to spend less than $20 million a year and get a guy,” McDaniel said. “But if you miss on him, now you have almost no money left and you’re forced – if you need to find a hitter – to either get lucky on like a minor-league signing or a one-year deal, or to trades some prospects.”
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TikTok food critic Keith Lee, who taste tests dishes from family-run restaurants around the country while sitting in his car, stunned his nearly 17 million followers in the last week with a video from Seattle that his followers alleged included him unknowingly eating a piece of sushi with a “worm” in it from Fob Sushi Bar in Seattle. The restaurant was his first and highest-rated stop in the city until all hell broke loose on the internet.
Lee did eat several other places while he was in town, however. Here’s where and what he thought of them.
King’s Barbeque House
518 6th Avenue S, Seattle
The ducks hanging in this window of this Chinatown spot caught the attention of Lee and his family, so they stopped to buy one and filmed the process of its preparation for takeout — including the head. “I’m not going to eat this, I just thought it was interesting,” Lee says. Cool, cool, cool.
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He proclaimed it seasoned to perfection, said it tasted like a duck but not gamey or exotic, and just seasoned meat — which… seems normal? Loved the rice and proclaimed the skin the home of all the flavor. Ultimately, he gave it a 9.5 out of 10 and said he likes Seattle.
Pike Place Market This stand outside Pike Place, where shoppers buy a cup or try as many different drinks as they like, caught Lee’s eye on a rainy day. His first sip was of the buttered rum cider, which he judged to be “real sour” and “real good.” That and lavender cider got 7s, and his highest rating went to the cinnamon spice cider at an 8. Lee bought everyone else waiting in line cider and attempted to leave one of his trademark large tips for the staff but noted on the video in a caption, “[T]ipping isn’t a thing in Seattle so it took some time to explain what we were doing.” In the end, Lee purchased 60 large cups and asked the vendors to keep anything left over from people who wanted a smaller size.
3114 NE 125th Street, Seattle
A fan of this restaurant emailed Lee to ask him to visit, saying it struggled during COVID and was still trying to get back on its feet. His family purchased doro wat, beef tibs, oatena, injera, and samboosa. Lee found the presentation of the beef tibs in a to-go container lacking because the grease was leaking, and although the beef was tough, the flavor was “deep” and “spicy.” Several family members rated it and opinions were varied. The samboosa was not to his liking, with too many lentils, and was “very mushy.” Its rating was a 1. He compares the doro wat to barbecue or braised chicken (it is stewed and covered in spices, so… yes) and gives it a 7.9. Why not an 8? The world will never know.
Lee and his family left the restaurant with $1,000 to pay for anyone who came in to eat after them, which is admittedly very cool.
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A Seattle teriyaki chicken taste-test
Various locations
Lee decided to get teriyaki chicken from several places and taste-test them against each other. What could go wrong?
Chickens from the top five most recommended places, including Toshio’s Teriyaki, Rainier Teriyaki, Nikko Teriyaki, Toshi’s Teriyaki in Bellevue, and Ichi Bento. Spoiler alert: Ichi Bento and Toshi’s tied, but Ichi would have won if they had rinsed the rice so it was less starchy, per Lee.
504 5th Avenue South, Suite 107A, Seattle
The Filipino food at Hood Famous received raves, though Lee seemed to struggle to accurately describe the dishes. He ordered multiple dishes, from savory mains to desserts. In describing them, the word ube was used a lot, and although it was an ingredient in some of the dishes, he meant umami a few times. But honestly, who knows?
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