Seahawks finally add a needed linebacker. Plus, their thinking at quarterback
Finally, when their followers were wondering what their plan is at linebacker — a day after they watched their Hall-of-Fame one leave, again — the Seahawks got a linebacker.
Seattle signed free-agent Tyrel Dodson from the Buffalo Bills Thursday night. The team announced the contract online.
Dodson started 15 games in four years with the Bills, 10 of them last season. Playing 51% of Buffalo’s defensive snaps as a part-time, off-the-ball linebacker against the run and pass, Dodson had 74 combined tackles, 2 1/2 sacks, eight tackles for loss, six quarterback hits, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and two passes defensed in 2023.
Pro Football Focus gave the 25-year-old Dodson its highest grade for an NFL linebacker last season.
He was an undrafted free agent Buffalo signed in 2020 out of Texas A&M. He’s not gigantic for an NFL inside linebacker: 6 feet tall and 237 pounds.
But neither was Bobby Wagner (6 feet, 242 pounds)
The Seahawks needed a linebacker, or three.
Wagner agreed Wednesday to leave Seattle on a free-agent contract with Washington. It’s the second time in three years the six-time All-Pro middle linebacker who made the Pro Bowl with the Seahawks last season for the ninth time has left Seattle.
The team let Jordyn Brooks, its first-round draft choice in 2020, leave this week. He signed a three-year free-agent contract with the Miami Dolphins worth $26.25M million with $16 million guaranteed and an $8,375,000 signing bonus, Aaron Wilson of KPRC television in Houston reported.
