Sherman Smith, an original Seahawks player, is out as Seattle’s running backs coach. He said head coach Pete Carroll decided that.
Smith told 710 AM radio in Seattle on Friday morning that Carroll decided last month to make a change.
The 62-year-old, who has been the Seahawks’ running back coach since 2010, said he had told his players following their playoff loss at Atlanta on Jan. 14 he was thinking about retiring.
Smith says Carroll made that decision for him on Jan. 17.
“We went into the meeting and Pete started talking about he thought it was time, you know, about making the change,” Smith told the “Brock and Salk Show.