5 guaranteed home runs from the Seahawks' 2024 offseason
By Lee Vowell
The 2024 Seattle Seahawks will not look like your older sister's Seahawks. Pete Carroll is gone, and so is Bobby Wagner. For the first time since 2011 - Carroll's second season in Seattle - nearly the entire coaching staff is new. The team will certainly look differently.
Some things will thankfully remain the same. DK Metcalf and Devon Witherspoon are still on the team and should be productive. Michael Dickson will still be the best punter in the league.
Some of the team's offseason moves are not going to pay off because that is bound to happen every year. The five moves that follow, however, should turn Seattle from an also-ran in 2023 into a playoff team in 2024.
Seattle Seahawks re-signed Leonard Williams
Some national pundits have voiced their dismay over the Seahawks giving the 30-year-old defensive lineman a three-year deal worth more than $60 million. Still, if Seattle was going to pay that much money to someone 30 years old or older, Williams is a safe bet. He has only missed five games in his career, and four of those came in 2022. Last year, Williams played in 18 due to the timing of when he was traded from the New York Giants to the Seahawks.
The defensive lineman should also be a fantastic fit in new head coach Mike Macdonald's system. Williams can play defense end or tackle and can be moved around quite a bit so that an offense isn't sure where he is going to line up. The lineman is also the kind of player offenses have to account for.
He might not have eight sacks every season (he has reached that number three times in his nine-year career, but he consistently gets quarterback pressure and disrupts the timing of the QB. Besides 2022, Williams has had at least 46 total pressures in each season.
He is also equally as good against the run and having him for a full season is going to make an impact on the overall defense. Playing next to rookie Byron Murphy II should make at least one side of Seattle's line extremely formidable. Seattle's defense should be better and that is partly due to Williams still being on the team.