Seahawks Sunday roundup: New turf and good deeds

Thankfully, there isn’t a lot of breaking Seahawks news from last week because that would probably be bad. Here’s some of the stuff from last week though.

The Sunday news about the Seahawks is good. Between minicamp and training camp if there is some breaking NFL news, that probably means something bad happened. But nothing relating to the current Seattle roster was bad. In fact, one player continued his off-the-field humanitarian goodness.

K.J. Wright checks on Kenya

I looked for a lot of photos of K.J. Wright to make the featured photo of this article. To be honest, I found several of him shaking hands of fans at Nordstrom, but I didn’t think that did justice to what Wright is really about. He’s about helping people who can’t help themselves; Not about people who can afford to shop at Nordstrom.

Instead, I went with a photo of Wright playing football, which still didn’t seem correct. But he at least is a football player. I wish I had more access to photos of him doing good things as a human in Kenya but then Wright doesn’t do good things to draw attention to himself.

In 2018, Wright raised $75,000 to build two wells to supply clean water to people in Kenya. $25,000 came from the award he won for being a nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. This month, Wright went back to Kenya to check on the wells.

Wright told Seahawks.com, “You see where they get their water from, it’s terrible what they have to do to get water, so this could be big for them.” It’s great having Wright on the field for the Seahawks. But it is even better that he is trying to make the world a more livable place.

CenturyLink gets new grass

https://twitter.com/CenturyLink_Fld/status/1144277302173290501

The Seahawks and a company called FieldTurf have been partnering together since 2000. Since that time, FieldTurf has been the company in charge of making sure CenturyLink has a playable surface in great condition for both Seattle football teams, the Seahawks and the MLS Sounders. This month, FieldTurf installed new grass at the stadium.

CenturyLink’s new surface is called FieldTurf Revolution 360. I doubt this turf is designed to trip up Seahawks opponents and allow Seattle players to run free. But that might come with the FieldTurf 2020 edition.