Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett are among the six Seahawks starters not present for the beginning of the team’s voluntary offseason program.
But what they are doing instead can’t be faulted — visiting Haiti as part of Avril’s well-documented efforts to build schools and just in general try to improve the country that is the homeland of his parents.
Avril has been posting about the trip on Twitter and other social media throughout Tuesday. It is the second straight year he has taken a contingent of teammates and others to Haiti.
Avril explained in one Tweet that he wants to visit the school he is helping to build there as well as do some health clinics and also show people “the other side of Haiti.