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Five takes from Seahawks defensive coordinator Kris Richard: Tye Smith emerging, Kelcie McCray impressing, and more

Here are five takeaways from Seahawks defensive coordinator Kris Richard's meeting with the media Wednesday.

Seahawks defensive coordinator Kris Richard met the media after practice Wednesday to preview Saturday’s preseason opener at Kansas City and review training camp so far. Here are five takeaways:

1, The strongside linebacker job remains wide open.

The race to replace Bruce Irvin at SLB appears to still be a three-player battle between Mike Morgan, Cassius Marsh and Eric Pinkins. The three have pretty much rotated getting work with the first team throughout camp, though it was Morgan who got the first reps in the base defense in the team’s scrimmage Sunday.