Add Pete Carroll as your coach and executive vice president in charge of the personnel decisions and bring on a new general manager in John Schneider, and you can expect quite a bit of turnover. More than quite a bit, actually. Call it a ton of turnover.

The Seattle Times Danny O’Neil has crunched the numbers for the Seahawks, and the results are spectacular. Seattle has made five trades, selected eight rookies in the NFL Draft, and on Thursday, after signing DL Jonathan Lewis, he became the 60th player acquired by the Seahawks this offseason. That’s a Babe Ruthian effort.

There are 80 players on the roster heading into training camp; 44 of them weren’t there before Carroll took over the team in mid-January. As O’Neil writes:

That overhaul isn't quite as severe toward the top of the pecking order. Of the 22 starters in Seattle's regular-season finale against Tennessee last season, 17 of them remain on the Seahawks roster.

It's not just the depth that has changed, but the message. Roles are no longer as clear-cut and defined.

There's an open competition at running back, and a free-for-all for someone to lay claim to the role as the No. 1 wide receiver. While Matt Hasselbeck remains the starting quarterback, the fact that Seattle's first significant move was to bring in Charlie Whitehurst, whom Seattle sees as a potential starter down the road, sent a clear message: The previous pecking order wasn't being thrown out the window, but it wasn't written in stone, either. Players would earn spots.

Carroll might not be done yet either.

"We're going to keep bringing guys in and keep making moves," Carroll said. “Keep pushing the envelope as much as we can to keep getting faster and keep getting guys with special qualities is what we're looking for all the time."


--Josh Katzowitz

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