Seahawks assistant coach Rocky Seto, who for the past two seasons has been the assistant head coach for defense, has left the team to return to enter the ministry, the team has confirmed.
Seto has worked as an assistant for head coach Pete Carroll since Carroll’s first year at USC in 2001.
Seto held five different defensive coaching roles at USC from 2001-09 before coming to Seattle along with Carroll in 2010. With the Seahawks he has been quality control coach/defense (2010), assistant defensive backs coach (2011) and defensive passing game coordinator (2012-14) before taking over as assistant head coach for defense in 2015.