DeShawn Shead is back.
The Seahawks cleared their special-teams captain and 2016 starting right cornerback off the physically-unable-to-perform list onto the active roster on Saturday. Shead will make his 2017 season debut on Sunday at Dallas, 11 months after he had reconstructive knee surgery.
Shead had a second, clean-up surgery in July that set back his recovery. He returned to practice three weeks ago, and as he expected then the team used all three weeks it had before league rules required it decide whether to activate Shead or put him on injured reserve.
He takes the spot on the 53-man roster vacated earlier this week when Seattle waived reserve linebacker Kache Palacio.