The Seattle Seahawks are entering the 2025 season with a dynamic duo at safety. Julian Love and Coby Bryant were fantastic in Mike Macdonald’s defense throughout 2024. This position group could get even better with rookie Nick Emmanwori joining the room.
Bryant supplanted Rayshawn Jenkins as an every-down starter in 2024. He’s now in a full-time role. Love has been one of the more consistent safeties in the league on a year-to-year basis in recent memory.
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Pro Football Focus recently released their safety rankings from 1-32. Both Love (No. 11) and Bryant (No. 32) make appearances.
“Similar to several safeties as of late, Love’s play improved significantly under head coach Mike Macdonald,” Zoltán Buday wrote. “His 82.2 PFF overall grade in 2024 was a career high in his sixth season and ranked seventh among all safeties. His 89.5 PFF run-defense grade ranked second at the position, too.”
Love recorded 109 tackles in Macdonald’s defense in 2024. It represented the downhill workhorse’s third consecutive season with 100-plus tackles.
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“First-year Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald found a new position for Bryant in 2024,” Buday continued. “After playing just two snaps at free safety over his first two seasons, Bryant spent most of his time lining up deep this past season, logging 668 snaps at free safety in 2024. The move reenergized the former Cincinnati Bearcat, as he earned career-high PFF grades and ranked 22nd among safeties with a 72.8 PFF overall grade.”
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: PFF top safeties: Seahawks’ Julian Love, Coby Bryant make list