Kenny Easley’s football legacy can be secured forever Saturday if he is elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
A Seahawk from 1981-87 and a member of the team’s Ring of Honor, Easley is one of 18 candidates for this year’s Hall of Fame class, with the potential to become the fourth player who spent his entire career in Seattle to be elected (the others are receiver Steve Largent, defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy and offensive tackle Walter Jones).
Easley, though, says simply being nominated by the Veterans Committee last August has already changed his life.
When the call came, the 58-year-old Easley was three weeks removed from triple bypass heart surgery to fix an ailment whose shocking diagnosis had arrived overnight.