Seahawks add Adrian Colbert from practice squad and cut Gary Jennings

The Seahawks made a move to add safety Adrian Colbert from the practice squad. To make room for him, though, Seattle let go of Gary Jennings.

Clearly, the Seahawks feel like they need some help in their secondary. But just as clearly, Seattle feels like maybe what they have at receiver is going to be good enough for 2019. On Wednesday, Seattle said “hello” to safety Adrian Colbert, bringing him onto the active roster from the practice squad. In return, Seattle said “goodbye” to rookie receiver Gary Jennings.

Colbert has spent two seasons in the NFL, both with the San Francisco 49ers. He has no interceptions, 6 passes defended and 53 tackles in his two years. Colbert (no relation to Stephen, it appears) is six-foot-two-inches and weighs 205 pounds. This means he is almost more of cornerback size for the Seahawks and not safety size.

It is interesting that Seattle added a safety this week as Tedric Thompson is returning from injury and practicing. Several things could be in play here. One, the move has nothing to do with Thompson as other teams were trying to sign Colbert so Seattle moved him to the active roster to make it impossible for other teams to sign him away. Two, Seattle thinks Thompson stinks and wants a nice way of telling him he is taking a long-term seat on the bench in favor of Lano Hill, Marquise Blair or Colbert. Or three, Seattle took a chance to sign a safety for added secondary help and let go a rookie who they made a mistake in drafting.

Let me say here how foolish I was that I thought Jennings might actually have a decent rookie year in Seattle. Not only will he not have good statistics with the Seahawks, he actually will never play a regular season down for them.

Seattle is pretty happy with the production they are getting from rookie D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. They do need a third receiver to step up. It says a lot that Seattle had so little faith in Jennings that they let him go even when they needed a good third wideout to step up and make plays.

The Seahawks made other moves on Tuesday by trading Nick Vannett to the Steelers. Seattle also brought back tight end Luke Willson to replace Vannett. Of course, everyone knows the best tight end in Seattle is Will Dissly and that will likely stay that way for years to come.