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Seattle Seahawks’ Derick Hall: ‘Pass rush wins championships’
Refining a popular NFL adage, Seattle Seahawks outside linebacker Derick Hall said, “Pass rush wins championships.”
The former Auburn standout contributed eight sacks and 20 quarterback hits toward winning a title for Seattle last season, but the Seahawks finished tied for eighth in the NFL with 45 sacks and missed the playoffs despite a 10-7 record.
For 2025, Seattle returns its top four in sacks and signed four-time Pro Bowl defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence after he played 11 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.
“They pay guys to sack quarterbacks,” Hall said during an appearance on KIRO-AM’s “Seattle Sports.” “And, I mean, I feel like if you do that, there’s no chance for the offense to be able to get going, so I think being disruptive at the front is huge. And I think that shows the importance of Coach Mike (Macdonald) and (defensive coordinator Aden Durde) and these guys here. I mean, they bring guys in for the front to be stout. I mean, from top to bottom, we have ones and twos who can go out and be a starter on a lot of teams across this league.”
A second-round draft pick from Auburn in 2023, Hall played in every game as a rookie, but he made more contributions on special teams than on defense. In 2023, Hall did not have any sacks and recorded three quarterback hits as he got on the field for 307 defensive snaps and 287 special-teams plays. Last season, Hall had 674 defensive snaps and 90 special-teams plays as he started 14 of Seattle’s 17 games.
“I think just knowing what to expect,” Hall said about the difference between Year 1 and Year 2. “Like, your rookie year, you’re coming to a new place. You don’t know what’s around. You don’t know nobody. You’re moving out by yourself. You got to find a home. Like, there’s just so much that go into a rookie season, so many challenges and different things that you have to face and then worry about playing ball and then worry about trying to meet the guys and then worry about trying to fit in and how this is going to go, how that’s going to go. You know, it’s a lot that’s on your plate.
“And I feel like you worry so much about trying to be in the present moment that you really forget what got you here, and that’s continue to do what you did every day to play the game. And I felt like there was a lot of struggles my rookie year from that, and then you also want to grow so fast. Come from being so successful in college and then getting here and not being so successful. You, like, wonder, like, ‘What am I doing wrong?’ It’s not what you’re doing wrong. It’s what you’re doing right to be able to continue to grow. And I feel like that’s what helped me out from Year 1 to Year 2 is just continue to come out, put my best foot forward every day, not worry about the mistakes, because mistakes are going to happen. Just continue to play fast, be team-oriented and continue to try to help this team grow. And I feel like that showed a lot.”
Hall registered his first NFL sack in the Seahawks’ 2024 season-opener, when he took down former Auburn teammate Bo Nix in a 26-20 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sept. 8.
Two weeks later, Hall made his first NFL start and recorded two sacks and four quarterback hits in a 24-3 victory over the Miami Dolphins.
“That was, like, my first true game where I’m like, ‘Wow, like, OK, I can truly do this. Yeah,’” Hall said. “And I feel like as a rookie, that’s the stuff you battle. Like, am I really good enough to play in this league?
“And coming into Year 2 and being able to put my best foot forward, going through preseason, having a great preseason, great training camp, getting into the season, first game against the Broncos, got my first sack. Boom. That’s off the board. You get to New England, have some really good rushes, playing good ball. Then Game 3, oh, you’re starting, by the way. Like, ‘Oh, OK.’ Just trying to take it all in, process it, being able to go out and just play ball, and I think that that’s the game that it really, really just broke open for me.”
The Seahawks have two days of mandatory minicamp remaining to finish their offseason program.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.
Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
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Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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