{"id":288091,"date":"2025-08-14T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288091\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:36:12","slug":"seattle-seahawks-add-fullback-who-played-lb-for-wsu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288091\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks add fullback who played LB for WSU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-sign-fullback-wesley-steiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed former WSU Cougars linebacker Wesley Steiner<\/a> to their 90-man roster on Thursday with the intention of converting him to fullback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/salk-seattle-seahawks-rookie-fullback-robbie-ouzts-jumped-off-page\/1818962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salk: Seahawks rookie fullback Robbie Ouzts \u2018jumped off the page\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot, 235-pound Steiner spent three college seasons at Auburn before transferring to Washington State for his senior season last fall. He primarily played on special teams for the Cougars, logging five special teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Steiner went undrafted out of WSU and signed with the Las Vegas Raiders as a linebacker in May before getting waived later that month.<\/p>\n<p>Steiner is new to playing fullback, but has some intriguing athletic traits. He ran a 4.39-second 40-yard dash at Auburn\u2019s pro day this spring, while also posting a 39-inch vertical leap and an 11-foot-3-inch broad jump.<\/p>\n<p>Steiner gives the Seahawks another fullback option behind rookie fifth-round pick Robbie Ouzts and third-year pro Brady Russell. Ouzts is the expected starter at fullback, while Russell has been splitting time at tight end and fullback.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Michael Dowell, who spent time on Seattle\u2019s practice squad last year, was waived to make room on the 90-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/lefko-seattle-seahawks-2022-draft-picks-extension-decisions\/1819214\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lefko: Which Seattle Seahawks 2022 draft picks should get extensions<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/wyman-and-bob-takeaways-seattle-seahawks-training-camp-2025\/1819156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyman &amp; Bob\u2019s takeaways from Seattle Seahawks training camp<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/bump-and-stacy\/our-4-biggest-seattle-seahawks-questions-right-now\/1819139\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy: Our 4 biggest questions about the Seattle Seahawks right now<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/wyman-seattle-seahawks-linebacker-depth-not-a-concern\/1819058\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With Knight out, is Seattle Seahawks\u2019 linebacker depth a concern?<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/huard-zach-charbonnet-seattle-seahawks-starting-running-back\/1819036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huard: Zach Charbonnet has \u2018earned\u2019 Seattle Seahawks\u2019 starting RB role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronVanTil\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @CameronVanTil<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks signed former WSU Cougars linebacker Wesley Steiner to their 90-man roster on Thursday with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,1631,3932,3930,6,238,237,261,2635,9,3931,1951,1952],"class_list":{"0":"post-288091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-mynorthwest-com","11":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}