For a player who has struggled with injuries his entire career, this was not a good sign heading into the 2021 season. Nkemdiche came into training camp seemingly motivated. But like with Cam Sutton, Mabry not making the active roster might mean good things for Parkinson being ready week one. I actually thought Mabry had a decent shot at making the team. Simmons will likely get picked up by another team if Seattle doesn’t find a way to re-sign him. He played 56 percent of offensive snaps in 2020. Simmons might be the most surprising cut so far as he played in 14 games for Seattle last year and started 6 times. In the end, the Seahawks might simply have too many guys versatile enough to play on special teams and also within the scheme of the offense and defense. Wedington had a decent chance of making the team as a special teamer but not as a receiver. Maybe Seattle just wanted to kick the tires on what Reid could bring but he clearly did not impress. The trade for Sidney Jones on Monday made Reid expendable. Seattle traded for John Reid recently but they didn’t give up much to get him from the Texans – a conditional 7th round pick that required Reid to be on the roster for 6 games. He doesn’t appear to be able to create any kind of separation against even backup cornerbacks. He might be signed to the practice squad but may have a difficult time even doing that. Toivonen had little chance to show what he could do in the preseason. He isn’t a pass rusher so won’t garner a lot of looks from other teams and will likely end up back on the Seahawks practice squad. Hewitt went undrafted this year but did some decent things in preseason when trying to stop the run. Look for him to land on the practice squad again, just like in 2020. He wasn’t going to start by any means but the team seemed to like him. But man, he was fun to watch sometimes in the second halves of preseason games. Roberson had little chance of making the roster as he wasn’t really a special teamer and there are so many receivers ahead of him on the depth chart. Keeping an extra tight end or two around might have meant Parkinson was going to miss a lot more time. I guess Bunting and Sutton (and Sutton did not look terrible in preseason) being cut is a good sign for Colby Parkinson’s return. Bunting, like all the cuts, could be a candidate for the Seattle practice squad.

Seahawks roster cut tracker for the 2021 season Tight end Ian Buntingīunting didn’t stick around too long with the Seahawks signing after Luke Willson was re-signed and then almost immediately retired. But anything is possible and keeping one player over another can get a coach judged harshly. Hopefully, the players cut by Seattle will not come back to haunt them in the regular season.

In the Seahawks case, no matter what national pundits tell you, the team should make the postseason and hopefully make a deep run towards the Super Bowl. Seattle’s starters are pretty much set but depth can make the difference between a team making the playoffs or not. The remaining players will be expected to help the team make the playoffs once again.

That means 27 players that Pete Carroll and company have kept an eye on are gone. There will be some tough cuts going from 80 players in preseason game three to 53. Running back Josh Johnson is reportedly joining the practice squad.The Seahawks have to trim their roster to 53 players by Tuesday afternoon. Rumors and reports regarding the players who will be added should start to emerge Wednesday afternoon, so keep checking back with Field Gulls for all the latest updates on your favorite fringe players, and also updates on fringe guys from other teams you may never have heard of. So, seventeen is the expectation, and with the team carrying just four wide receivers on the initial 53 man roster, it also seems likely that there will be plenty of receivers added to the practice squad as well. As part of that program Seattle can keep Donkor on the practice squad in a spot that does not count towards the 16 available spaces. NFL rules typically allow teams to form a 16 member practice squad, however, the Hawks are in a special situation due to Aaron Donkor and his inclusion in the International Pathway Program. The Seattle Seahawks trimmed the roster down on Tuesday by waiving or releasing 29 players, and with the waiver claim deadline passing today the team can begin to assemble its practice squad.

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