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Once-and-again Seahawk Al Woods in line for key role on defense with Jarran Reed suspended

RENTON — What kind of playing time he might get didn’t really factor in to Al Woods’ decision to sign with the Seahawks.

Instead, as the 32-year-old defensive tackle sifted through offers last spring from Seattle, Detroit and Jacksonville, he considered more big-picture matters.

“It was just looking at all of them together and looking at the teams and seeing what they could be,’’ said Woods, who played from 2004-16 with Tennessee and then spent the last two seasons with the Colts. “And I ‘d already been in the AFC South for the past (five) years, so I wanted to come out here and try something different and come out here to the NFC West.