Signed, 'Quilled, and Delivered
Seahawks bring back Shaquill Griffin
The Seahawks have answered their search for veteran cornerback help by signing free agent Shaquill Griffin on Wednesday.
Griffin returns to Seattle, where he reached his only career Pro Bowl in 2019, after spending the past four seasons split between the Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, Carolina Panthers, and Minnesota Vikings.
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And although his stint with the Vikings didn’t result in a new contract, similar to Sam Darnold it is not for lack of respectable numbers:
17 games
572 snaps
31-of-57 passing allowed (54.4%)
2 Interceptions
75.8 passer rating allowed
41 tackles and only one missed tackle
It does seem as though teams were not afraid to throw at Griffin because 57 attempts is a lot for a player who only saw 50% of the snaps, but he did enough to warrant a look as the Seahawks third starting corner alongside Devon Witherspoon and Tariq Woolen.
Some analytics put Griffin around the 33rd-best season among corners in 2024, with high scores for tackling, catch rate allowed, and coverage snaps per reception, but low scores for forced incompletion rate and coverage snaps per game. He was credited with six pass breakups.
At its most basic level, Griffin is a “someone has to do the job” signing for a Seahawks defense with Josh Jobe, Nehemiah Pritchett, Damarion Williams, Shemar Jean-Charles, and Zy Alexander competing for a spot on Seattle’s 53.
The soon to be 30-year-old Griffin is the closest thing to “confident” that Mike Macdonald can have on his defense for that cornerback job right now. Maybe that will change after a few weeks of training camp — Macdonald would love to find out that one of his younger options has a bright present to go with a brighter future — but for now it appears as though the Seahawks best option moving forward is to go back to the past.
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Seaside Joe 2305
The Seahawks drafted 11 players in 2017, including Shaq Griffin.
- Ethan Pocic and David Moore are the only other 2 who are still active
- Lano Hill, Naz Jones, and Amara Darboh were the other 3rd round picks that year
- Seattle's last pick was Chris Carson
- Hill, Tedric Thompson, and Mke Tyson were Carroll's 3 other shots to rebuild the secondary
- 2nd rounder Malik McDowell and 3rd rounder Amara Darboh were released before their second years
- 6th rounder Tyson was released at final cuts as a rookie
- 6th rounder Justin Senior failed to make the team as a rookie and never caught on with a different team in any capacity
- Thompson started 16 games for the Seahawks, but somehow played in fewer total games than Hill, who only started 6 games
Looks like 1 year for $3 million and incentives up to $4 million. Unclear on guaranteed number.