The Dang Apostrophe

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Three things I learned from minicamp

The rookie cornerback looks like something out of 2013, Chris Carson's return is in doubt and Drew Lock is more than a big-armed pocket-passer.

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Danny O'Neil
Jun 13, 2022
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The Seahawks held their mandatory minicamp last week in Seattle, and I got a first-hand view of some important lessons:

  1. That rookie cornerback is something to see.

Tariq Woolen is all of 6 feet 4, and every bit as fast as you’d expect given his 40-yard dash time of 4.26 seconds. When I saw that he started his college career as a receiver before playing the last two years at corner, I immediately thought of Richard Sherman. That’s the path Sherman took at Stanford, but seeing him in person …

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