The Seattle Seahawks and the NFL don’t kick off their regular season until next week, but it’s already starting to feel like we’re on the eve of a football Sunday.

Seattle Seahawks set practice squad, which includes two draft picks they cut

Roster cuts, practice squad signings and trades across the league have dominated the headlines for the past few todays, including right here in the Pacific Northwest where we know now what Seattle’s initial 53-man roster will look like.

As there is every year, there were some surprises as to whom the Seahawks kept, cut and traded away. During his Four Down Territory segment on Wednesday’s edition of Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy, Seahawks Radio Network and former NFL wide receiver Michael Bumpus shared which of the Seahawks’ roster decisions surprised him the most.

For Bumpus, it was the decision at safety to keep Ty Okada on the 53-man roster and waive Jerrick Reed II, who was later signed back to the practice squad.

“I know he made that great play in the last preseason game, but he’s a bit undersized and didn’t have that twitch,” Bumpus said. “… The week before (against the Chiefs) he’s taking horrible angles, he’s bouncing off the tackles. … It just didn’t look good, and I thought that he was going to be a guy that you tried to sneak on to the practice squad.”

Much of the reason Bumpus is surprised has more to do with Reed than Okada, though.

Reed, a third-year pro, was a special teams standout before his rookie campaign was cut short by a torn ACL in November 2023. The New Mexico product missed the final five games of the season, but still finished third on the team with nine special teams tackles. He was named to the Pro Football Writers of America’s All-Rookie Team for his efforts.

“I thought Jerrick Reed would be the guy that they keep because of what he’s done on special teams and just the type of player that he was,” Bumpus said.

However, Okada did have perhaps the best defensive play of the preseason for the Seahawks in last week’s loss the Packers. The third-year pro made a spectacular, one-handed diving catch to secure an interception deep over the middle of the field and returned it 23 yards on Green Bay’s first drive of the game.

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“They looked at Okada and there was something in his game that they loved,” Bumpus said. “He’s obviously a big playmaker. That one-handed interception was crazy, but I was surprised. I thought Jerrick Reed II was a lock. … But they saw something in Ty. I’m happy for Ty.”

Hear the full conversation at this link or in the audio player near the top of this story. Listen to Bump and Stacy weekdays form 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app. 

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