Pete Carroll’s Nebraska connection helps explains cornerbacks stashed on Seahawks roster

Last week I mentioned how two Seattle Seahawks cornerbacks who spent 2016 on injured reserve, Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Mohammed Seisay, were teammates at Nebraska in 2012-13 before joining the NFL. At first I thought it was most likely a coincidence: Both defensive backs took different paths to Seattle, with Seisay getting picked up as an undrafted free agent by the Detroit Lions after the 2014 draft when Jean-Baptiste was a second round selection by the New Orleans Saints. Each eventually went through Detroit but Seisay came to the Seahawks via trade in August 2015; Jean-Baptiste was acquired to the practice squad late in that year after the Saints and Lions released him, and then signed to a futures deal in the 2016 offseason.

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