Seattle Seahawks throws a change-up

Published on August 6, 2011 by     

Coach Pete Carroll has said — repeatedly — he does not expect the team to match or exceed the 300-and-some roster moves the team made a year ago.

But already, it’s fairly clear the Seahawks will have more changes to the starting lineup. The team has not set its depth chart yet, but a projection fo the starting lineup shows how much things have changed since the Week 1 lineup in 2010 for Carroll’s first game as Seahawks coach.

This will mark the third consecutive year that Seattle makes more than 10 changes to its opening-day starting lineup from the previous year.

But even measuring the changes in the starting lineup doesn’t give a full view of the degree of changes. Because some times the changes are more subtle. A player switches from left guard to right guard as Rob Sims did from 2007 to 2008. Or a player moves up the depth chart to become a starter as Kelly Jennings and later Josh Wilson did in Seattle’s secondary.

The best way to show the depth of change in Seattle is to count the number of potential starters who were not on this team before this year. That total would be eight, which is strikingly high even compared to Seattle’s recent history.

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