Adams, additionally a commerce acquisition, joined the Seahawks in 2020 and earned Professional-Bowl and second-team All-Professional honors that yr after setting a document for defensive backs with 9.5 sacks, however accidents have restricted his affect since that yr, with Adams showing in simply 22 video games over the previous three seasons, together with 10 the previous two years after tearing his quadriceps tendon within the 2022 season opener.
The Seahawks do nonetheless have Julian Love at security, having signed him to a multi-year deal final offseason, and Love is coming off a Professional-Bowl marketing campaign in 2023, however they are going to now have a brand new starter on the different security spot.
Dissly, a 2018 fourth-round select of the College of Washington, fought by way of important accidents in his first two seasons, tearing his patellar tendon as a rookie and his Achilles in his second season, to change into a mainstay in Seattle’s offense. After taking part in solely 10 video games these first two seasons, Dissly appeared in not less than 15 video games every of the previous 4 seasons, beginning 55 of 62 video games from 2020-2023. Over his six seasons with the Seahawks, Dissly recorded 127 catches for 1,421 yards and 13 touchdowns, whereas additionally taking part in a giant position within the working sport.
By releasing Dissly, the Seahawks may have a wholly new tight finish group in 2024, as Noah Fant and Colby Parkinson are each set to change into free brokers subsequent week if they are not re-signed earlier than the beginning of the league yr.
The timing of those choices traces up with what normal supervisor and president of soccer operations John Schneider described final week on the NFL Scouting Mix, which was that this is able to be the week the staff would begin making roster choices now {that a} new teaching workers, led by Mike Macdonald, is lastly in place.
“We actually are simply getting finished hiring guys, so you consider all of us sitting in a room collectively, we’re all like attending to know one another, ‘What’s essential to you, what’s essential to all these completely different individuals?'” Schneider mentioned final week. “So Mike and I, after we received collectively, we had a imaginative and prescient for the place we need to take this factor, however you have to get into the specifics of the positions, too, and perceive what’s essential to these guys in an effort to get the buy-in from the workers.”
Requested particularly about making salary-cap associated strikes, Schneider acknowledged that would nonetheless be coming, and on Tuesday that was certainly the case.
“You are always evaluating that,” Schneider mentioned. “That is a kind of issues we’ll discover out, ‘OK if we’re desirous about such-and-such a participant, how are we going to create area to accumulate that participant? If we’re buying and selling with one other staff for a participant, how are we’re going to create the area?’ Proper now, right now of the yr, it is like enormous chess items we’re making an attempt to work by way of. I haven’t got specifics for you guys, however I do know that we’re getting there.”