The Seahawks aren’t just making evaluations on their own players in the preseason.
What is turning out to be one of the team’s biggest personnel coups this year — claiming guard Jordan Simmons off waivers from the Raiders the day after teams had to cut their rosters to 53 — was determined in part by the way Simmons played against them in the fourth and final preseason game just a few days prior.
Simmons started at right guard for the Raiders in the seemingly meaningless last preseason contest, on the field for 48 of 59 snaps. The Raiders waived him barley 36 hours later, hoping they could again sneak him on to their practice squad, as they had done the year before.