For once, let’s talk about a safety in Seahawks camp: Tedric Thompson

Earl Thomas gets the headlines, rightfully so. We’ll have more coming about him. For now, let’s talk about a safety that’s tearing it up in Seahawks camp.

I’ve probably written a dozen articles about Earl Thomas since the birth of “come get me”. I’ll likely write a dozen more, and that’s if he never plays another down for the Seahawks. For now, I’d rather talk about one of the safeties that’s in camp right now, giving it everything he can to step up and forge a new Legion of Boom. That young gun is Tedric Thompson. T2 to his teammates.

There isn’t a lot to see from his pro stats. I mentioned his penchant for finding the football in an earlier rundown on Seahawks safeties. Pete Carroll certainly had good things to say about Thompson. Turns out he isn’t the only one who’s had an eye on the second year defensive standout from Colorado.

Linebacker K.J. Wright has high praise for him as well. Wright appeared on the seahawks.com excellent video series “Driving with Gee”. Gee Scott is excellent; love his work. You can watch the video here. I can’t recommend it enough – although I’m shocked Wright didn’t recognize Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes!

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Seahawks look like they have a winner in T2

Anyway, Wright couldn’t say enough about the young second year safety. Thompson certainly looked good in college. His senior year, he had 7 interceptions, defended 16 passes, and had three tackles for a loss. Not too shabby, right?Okay, back to Wright taking on the role of T2’s agent:

"I’ve been saying this since OTAs: No. 33. Tedric Thompson. T-2. I’ve been saying it, man. We’ll see. I’m like a scout, man. I saw it last year when he was just killing on scout team and he’s just fast. He comes to me, he’ll be like ‘K.J., if you see something in me, let me know.’ He’s fiending for that information from the vets because we’ve played a while, so he knows that he can come to us and we’re going to help him out. That’s good. That’s all I’m saying. I’m sticking with it."

I think K.J. Wright recognizes talent when he sees it. Thompson has been working a lot at free safety on the first unit, with Bradley McDougald at strong safety. McDougald has moved over to free safety, with Mo Alexander and Delano Hill taking the strong side. Thompson is going to make it hard to take him off the field. He’s picked off Russell Wilson, and looks more like a seasoned veteran than a guy who saw almost nothing but special teams action last year.

We’re a long way from seeing how things will finally shake out, but when a player like K.J. Wright says someone is special, everyone better keep an eye out. Oh, and by the way, Gee – I’m glad you write so well. You’re going nowhere as a singer.