Pete Carroll says Seattle Seahawks, Okay.J. Wright have mentioned return

RENTON, Wash. — After spending final season with the Las Vegas Raiders, free-agent linebacker Okay.J. Wright needs to return to the Seattle Seahawks.

“I need to return dwelling,” Wright told Trey Wingo on the “Half-Forgotten Historical past” podcast final week. “I believe it is that easy. Seattle is aware of that I need to come again. They understand how a lot they imply to me.”

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was requested about Wright’s feedback Sunday after the workforce concluded its three-day rookie minicamp.

“I like Okay.J.,” Carroll stated. “I’ve already talked to him about stuff for the long run and all that. I did hear that he talked about enjoying, and we have already talked about that.”

Wright, 32, spent his first 10 seasons with the Seahawks, serving to them win Tremendous Bowl XLVIII and attain Tremendous Bowl XLIX the next yr. He made the Professional Bowl after the 2016 season and racked up the third-most tackles in franchise historical past, behind Eugene Robinson and all-time chief Bobby Wagner.

The Seahawks launched Wagner earlier this offseason, one yr after not re-signing Wright when his contract expired. Wright then signed a one-year, $3.5 million with the Raiders and recorded 51 tackles in 17 video games (eight begins).

“Final yr I left, went to Vegas on my own,” he informed Wingo. “My household did not include me. I am not doing that once more. I do not assume I’ll transfer my household wherever else throughout the nation, so if it isn’t Seattle, then I will be content material.”

The Seahawks seem able to go along with current draft picks Jordyn Brooks (2020 first-rounder) and Cody Barton (2019 third-rounder) as their beginning inside linebackers.