Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll wants to run the football better in the 2018 season, so it follows that his NFL team would sign in free agency an offensive lineman as "physical and tough and as big and strong as you can get."
That's how Carroll described D.J. Fluker, the former Alabama standout who joined the Seahawks last week on a one-year contract.
Seattle general manager John Schneider described Fluker as "all football," and Carroll called him "a great passion guy." But it was Fluker's size and reputation as a road-grader that attracted the Seahawks the most.