While Chiefs defensive tackle Jaye Howard quietly put together the best season of his career in 2015, the Seattle Seahawks — the team that drafted Howard and released him only a year later because of a numbers crunch — watched from afar, perhaps wondering what could have been.
“He’s come on so strong,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said, when asked specifically about Howard at the NFL Scouting Combine. “He had good speed, he moved well … we’ve watched him ever since — he’s one of those ones that got away, so we regret that.”
Howard, it’s safe to say, has come a long way since the Seahawks released him on Aug.