There’s a new tallest cornerback in the NFL.
The Seahawks have announced that Tyrone Broden, who was a practice squad wide receiver, is changing his position to cornerback.
At 6-foot-5, Broden now becomes the tallest cornerback in the league. In fact, if he plays in a regular-season game at cornerback, he’d be the tallest in league history: According to pro-football-reference.com, no player listed at taller than 6-foot-4 has ever played cornerback in a regular-season game.
Last year there were two 6-foot-4 cornerbacks in the NFL, Seattle’s Riq Woolen (who is now with the Eagles) and Chicago’s Nahshon Wright (who is now with the Jets). Broden has an inch on both of them.
The 25-year-old Broden was a wide receiver throughout his college career, first for three years at Bowling Green and then for two years at Arkansas. After going undrafted last year, he spent 2025 on the Seahawks’ practice squad.
Broden will have plenty of work to do to make the Seahawks’ regular-season roster at a new position, but if he makes it, he’ll make NFL history as the tallest cornerback ever.
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The Seahawks signed five of their eight draft picks ahead of their rookie minicamp this weekend.
The team announced Thursday that third-round cornerback Julian Neal, fifth-round guard Beau Stephens, seventh-round cornerback Andre Fuller, seventh-round defensive tackle Deven Eastern and seventh-round cornerback Michael Dansby are now under contract.
All five received a four-year deal.
Their signings leave only first-round pick Jadarian Price, second-round pick Bud Clark and sixth-round pick Emmanuel Henderson Jr. unsigned from the 2026 class.
The Seahawks are doing some selling. And multiple billionaires could be looking to do some buying.
Via Ben Horney of Front Office Sports, potential suitors for the Seattle Seahawks include Facebook/Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg and recently-retired Apple CEO Tim Cook. Both are considering making bids.
Two others, whose names have not yet emerged, are looking into the possibility of putting together an offer.
The next owner will pay a record amount for controlling interest in a team. At the time it was reported that the Seahawks will be sold, we reported that the expected range for a final price will be $9 billion to $11 billion.
The Commanders set the record in 2023, with a purchase price of $6.05 billion.
Zuckerberg has more than enough money to write a check for 100 percent of the equity, whatever the final price. Cook has a reported net worth of $2.9 billion. That won’t be enough to come up with the cash to buy at least 30 percent of the equity, which makes it very hard for him to be anything other than a minority partner.
The Seahawks officially hit the market on February 18, after the NFL applied pressure to current owner Jody Allen to proceed with the wishes of her late brother, Paul Allen, to sell the team and distribute the proceeds to his chosen charities. A $5 million fine for non-compliance with league ownership rules was levied and then rescinded, we’re told, with the understanding that the team would be promptly put up for sale after the 2025 season.
And while the Seahawks’ status as the reigning Super Bowl champion won’t change the balance sheets, it adds a little cachet to a process that has less to do with book value and more to do with acquiring a rare asset that is always appreciating.
UPDATE 5:32 p.m. ET: The FOS article has been updated to include a claim, from a “source close to Apple,” that the notion Cook is considering a bid for the Seahawks is “completely false.”
The Seahawks signed tight end Harrison Bryant on Wednesday, the team announced.
Bryant, 28, spent last season with the Texans after the Eagles released him out of the preseason. He played 12 games with four starts and made two catches for 7 yards and one tackle.
The Browns made Bryant a fourth-round draft pick in 2020, and he started in nine games his rookie year. In his career, Bryant has appeared in 90 games, starting 27, and has caught 100 passes for 884 yards and 10 touchdowns.
After four seasons in Cleveland, Bryant joined the Raiders in 2024.
The addition of Bryant gives the Seahawks five tight ends as he joins AJ Barner, Elijah Arroyo, Nick Kallerup and Eric Saubert on the roster at the position.
The Seahawks now have 83 players on the roster, not including undrafted rookie free agents who will sign ahead of rookie minicamp this week. Seattle can have up to 91 players on the roster, including international pathway player, Federico Maranges.
Before the draft, the Seahawks brought in free agent edge rusher Dante Fowler for a visit. Still in need of pass rush help after the draft, Fowler remains in play for Seattle.
Fowler is “a top option” for the Seahawks, according to Brady Henderson of ESPN.
Seahawks defensive coordinator Aden Durde has coached Fowler before, both in Atlanta in 2020 and in Dallas in 2022 and 2023, so if Fowler were to sign with the Seahawks, he would arrive in Seattle with a good understanding of his role in the defense.
The 31-year-old Fowler spent last season with the Cowboys, playing in all 17 games with 11 starts.
Geno Smith served as Russell Wilson’s backup for two seasons in Seattle. Could Wilson be Smith’s backup with the Jets?
Zack Rosenblatt of TheAthletic.com reports that Wilson visited the Jets on Monday night and is an option for the backup job to Smith.
Smith, per Rosenblatt, was presented with various options for the No. 2 job and was “excited” about the prospect of having Wilson in the quarterbacks room. Wilson and the Jets spoke before the draft and scheduled his free agent visit.
Wilson, 37, has received no other known interest since becoming a free agent in March.
He said at the end of last season that he intended to continue his NFL career.
Wilson went 0-3 as a starter for the Giants in New York before being benched in favor of rookie Jaxson Dart. Wilson completed 58 percent of his passes for 831 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions in 2025.
In his 14-year career, Wilson has a 121-80-1 record with 46,966 yards, 353 touchdowns and 114 interceptions. He has made the Pro Bowl 10 times. He led the Seahawks to a victory in Super Bowl XLVIII.
The Seahawks added Jadarian Price with the 32nd overall pick in the draft last week and the addition of a rookie running back has pushed an older player out of the backfield mix in Seattle.
The team announced that they have released Cam Akers on Monday.
Akers joined the Seahawks after playing in three games for the Vikings last season and he made three more appearances for Seattle. He did not play any offensive snaps, but returned a pair of kickoffs for 54 yards. He also made one postseason appearance en route to picking up his second Super Bowl ring.
Akers won his first with the Rams after the 2021 season and he has also played for the Texans over the course of his NFL career.
Price joins Emanuel Wilson, Zach Charbonnet, George Holani, Kenny McIntosh and Jacardia Wright in the Seahawks’ running back group.
Seahawks General Manager John Schneider came into the first round of the draft with designs on trading out of the 32nd pick, but way things played out in the picks leading up to that selection changed those plans.
Five of the six picks leading up to Seattle’s time on the clock were traded and Schneider said after the draft that the flurry of moves wound up leaving the team without options to move down while remaining in position to “have a shot” at running back Jadarian Price. As a result, they stayed put and made Price part of their offensive backfield.
“Great player, great person,” Schneider said, via the team’s website. “We thought he had some opportunities for a minute, they fell apart. A lot of trading going on right ahead of us, but I mean, he kind of stood alone. Great player. The person’s outstanding, the competitor, he’s a Seahawk. It’s really cool. We were kind of concerned people were going to go ahead of us because we felt like he was so out there in terms of mock drafts and what have you.”
Schneider was hoping to move down because the Seahawks came into the draft with four picks, but Price fits a need after Kenneth Walker’s departure as a free agent and the inability to make a deal will be forgotten if the rookie is part of a strong title defense in Seattle this fall.
Seahawks General Manager John Schneider said this week that it was no secret that he wanted to trade down on Thursday night, but it takes two to tango and Schneider couldn’t find a dance partner.
That left the Seahawks to make the 32nd and final pick of the first round. They used it to take former Notre Dame running back Jadarian Price.
Price became the second Notre Dame running back to go in the first round. The Cardinals selected Jeremiyah Love with the third overall pick and they were the only two running backs selected on Thursday night.
Price ran 113 times for 674 yards and 11 touchdowns last season and he also returned a pair of kickoffs for touchdowns. He joins a team that lost Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker as a free agent and has Zach Charbonnet coming off of a torn ACL, so Price could find himself in an even more prominent role than he played while sharing the backfield with Love in South Bend.
Offensive lineman Shane Lemieux has announced his retirement.
Lemieux made the announcement in a post to his LinkedIn account. Lemieux wrote that he dreamed of spending at least a decade in the NFL when the Giants drafted him in the fifth round in 2020, but “five surgeries and more time in the training room than on the field” led to his decision to walk away from the game.
Lemieux played 12 games and made nine starts at guard as a rookie, but only played in six games over his final three seasons with the NFC East club. Knee, toe and biceps injuries contributed to his extended absences from the lineup.
Lemieux moved on to play seven games and make four starts for the Saints in 2024 and spent last season on the Seahawks’ practice squad.
