Seattle Seahawks Starting Geno Smith, But Sign Another Vet QB

It is Geno Smith’s job.

And Drew Lock is staying prepared.

And one other vet QB is coming aboard.

The Seattle Seahawks have locked in on the choice to start out the 2022 NFL season with veteran Smith as their starter and with Lock because the backup, at the same time as coach Pete Carroll reminds all that the competitors by no means actually stops.

“Yeah, I believe that they perceive that, that it’s all the time on,” Carroll stated because the Seahawks gear up for a Week 1 assembly in opposition to previous pal Russell Wilson, now the Denver Broncos’ $245 million QB.

The competitors doesn’t cease. Nor, in fact, does the seek for expertise – particularly on the recreation’s most essential spot … which can be the spot the place it’s most tough to search out aforementioned expertise.

So the Seahawks will now add another man to the quarterback room, as Seattle signed free agent quarterback Sean Mannion to the follow squad.

This isn’t Mannion’s first rodeo with the Seahawks, in fact. Mannion was launched by the Minnesota Vikings earlier this week. He began one recreation for the Vikings in 2021, after having hung out in Seattle however is finest identified within the space for having damaged information at Oregon State. To at the present time, he holds each main faculty report. … and now he is again with Seattle; he signed with the group in the course of the 2021 offseason however was launched throughout closing roster cuts earlier than signing with the Vikings.

Mannion is now not a prospect, as he is 30 years previous. However there may be pedigree: He was taken 89th general within the 2015 NFL Draft to the St. Louis Rams. And now he is another acquainted arm within the Seattle arsenal.