Good afternoon, 12s. Here's a look at what's out there today—Friday, February 23—about your Seattle Seahawks.
John Schneider breaks down the Seahawks' latest staff hirings and the approach to the upcoming 2024 NFL Combine.
The second episode of The John Schneider Show with Dave Wyman and Bob Stelton was recorded live at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center on Thursday, as Seattle's president of football operations and general manager broke down the latest happenings around the franchise. With the 2024 NFL Combine kicking off next week in Indianapolis, Schneider gave the Seattle Sports 710AM duo some insight on how the new-look Seahawks are approaching the coming weeks leading up to free agency and the upcoming draft.
On Thursday, the Seahawks officially announced the hiring of 15 more assistants under Coach Mike Macdonald. After making Macdonald the league's youngest head coach at 36-years-old, Seattle heads into 2024 with a staff mixed with 23 tenured coaches and new leaders on Macdonald's coaching staff. With the clock ticking for the staff to get familiar and to work
"We're getting done," said Schneider. "We're talking about wearing nametags upstairs."
"It's a really cool mix of brainpower, creativeness, youth, experience with (running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu) and obviously (assistant head coach) Leslie Frazier," Schneider said. "It's cool, it's exciting. It's different ideas and different philosophies all mixed together. Everybody's coming together. They're now getting to a point where it's going be all ball now."
The 2024 NFL Combine kicks off on February 26 in Indianapolis, with Seattle currently holding seven draft picks. Schneider breaks down why Seattle's new staff won't be heading to the combine.
"They're just focused on implementing their systems, so they're not going to be going down to the combine next week, said Schneider. "They're all going to be here just 24/7 installing everything they need to get installed because it's basically a race to April 8 when the players come in. Mike coached in the AFC Championship Game, so there's a little bit of a feeling that we're behind the eight ball a little bit. So we're getting caught up but still staying true to his hiring process and the group that's come in and just mixing all those people together."
Seattle's front office has changed drastically through the early portion of the 2024 offseason. Schneider broke down the potential changes of the roster, including the process of evaluating and interviewing potential first-year talent.
"For me personally," said Schneider. "It's the guys that we covered in those meetings that I don't have a very good feel for yet, that I wasn't able to study in the fall. So taking all my notes through the process and then knowing who I want to focus on based on what we haven't covered yet and not necessarily getting into needs."
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The Seattle Seahawks named Mike Macdonald the ninth head coach in franchise history on January 31, 2024.
The Seahawks hired Ryan Grubb as offensive coordinator on February 13, 2024, after two seasons at the University of Washington (2022-23) in the same role.
Aden Durde joined the Seahawks coaching staff as defensive coordinator on February 13, 2024 following three seasons (2021-23) as the Cowboys defensive line coach. He returned to Dallas in 2021 after beginning his NFL coaching career there during training camp as a Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship intern in 2014 and 2015.
Harbaugh joined the Seahawks staff as special teams coordinator on February 13, 2024, after spending nine seasons with the University of Michigan. During his time, he served as the team's special teams coordinator, and worked with the safeties and running backs.
The Seahawks hired Mack Brown as tight ends coach on February 22, 2024. Brown spent five seasons with the New York Jets; three as an offensive assistant, after two seasons as a defensive assistant.
Hired as a defensive assistant/linebackers coach by the Seahawks on February 22, 2024, Bynes officially enters his first season as an NFL coach.
The Seahawks hired Rob Caprice on February 22, 2024, after spending three seasons (2021-23) at the University of Tennessee aiding the defensive staff.
Devin Fitzsimmons joined the Seahawks staff as assistant special teams coach on February 15, 2024. He spent the 2023 season with the Carolina Panthers as special teams assistant after serving in the same role with Arizona (2021-22). Fitzsimmons, now in his 20th year of coaching, begins his 12th year as part of special teams units in college and the NFL.
Leslie Frazier joined the Seahawks staff as assistant head coach on February 13, 2024, and enters his 25th season as an NFL coach. He did not coach in the NFL in 2023 after spending six seasons with the Buffalo Bills as defensive coordinator (2017-19) and assistant head coach/defensive coordinator (2020-22).
This is a 2019 photo of Thomas Garcia of the Seattle Seahawks NFL football team. This image reflects the Seattle Seahawks active roster of as of June 10, 2019 when this image was taken. (AP Photo)
Seattle hired Zak Hill on February 22, 2024, following two seasons (2022-23) as a high school coach in the Phoenix area and two seasons (2020-21) as Arizona State's offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach.
Justin Hinds was hired as the defensive line coach by the Seahawks on February 22, 2024. Hinds enters his 16th season in coaching in 2024 and served as an assistant defensive line coach for the Chicago Bears from 2022-23.
Jeff Howard joined the Seahawks coaching staff as safeties coach on February 22, 2024, after one season coaching linebackers for the L.A. Chargers, and three seasons (2020-22) as defensive pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach for the Cleveland Browns.
Entering his first NFL season, Scott Huff joined the Seahawks as offensive line coach on February 13, 2024. Previously, Huff spent seven seasons with the Washington Huskies (2017-23) in the same capacity.
Hired by Seattle on February 22, 2024, Frisman Jackson joins the Seahawks following two years (2022-23) as the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers coach.
Charles London joined the Seahawks coaching staff as quarterbacks coach on February 22, 2024, working for Tennessee for the second time in his career in 2023, this as the pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach after spending two seasons (2021-22) as quarterbacks coach with the Atlanta Falcons.
Named to the Seahawks coaching staff on February 22, 2024, Nugent comes to Seattle after two seasons (2022-23) as offensive line coach for the L.A. Chargers.
Quinshon Odom joined the Seahawks staff on February 22, 2024 after two seasons as Green Bay's coaching assistant through the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship. He previously worked in Green Bay's player personnel department during the 2018 season.
Entering his 22nd season as a coach in the NFL, Kirk Olivadotti joined the Seahawks staff on February 13, 2024, after spending five seasons (2019-23) as the inside linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers.
Chris Partridge joined the Seahawks staff as outside linebackers coach on February 22, 2024, following one season at the University of Michigan in the same capacity.
Jake Peetz joined the Seahawks coaching staff on February 22, 2024, following two seasons with the L.A. Rams.
Nick Perry joined the Seahawks coaching staff on February 22, 2024 in a defensive quality control role after spending the prior season as the Atlanta Falcons assistant wide receivers coach and serving as Atlanta's defensive backs coach from 2021-22.
Kennedy Polamalu was hired as running backs coach on February 22, 2024. He enters his 33rd season in coaching at both the NFL and collegiate levels, and spent two seasons (2022-23) as running backs coach with the Las Vegas Raiders prior to joining the Seahawks.
Tyson Prince joined the Seahawks coaching staff on February 22, 2024, following one season (2023) as Sacramento State's wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator.
Hired on February 22, 2022, to be the team's defensive passing game coordinator/defensive backs coach, Karl Scott enters the 2024 season in that same role, serving in that capacity in two of his three Seahawks seasons. Scott served one season (2021) as the defensive backs coach with the Vikings in his inaugural season in the NFL. Prior to Minnesota, he served as Alabama's cornerbacks coach from 2018-20.
This is a 2019 photo of Grant Steen of the Seattle Seahawks NFL football team. This image reflects the Seattle Seahawks active roster of as of June 10, 2019 when this image was taken. (AP Photo)
This is a 2019 photo of Danny Van Dijk of the Seattle Seahawks NFL football team. This image reflects the Seattle Seahawks active roster of as of June 10, 2019 when this image was taken. (AP Photo)
