{"id":808626,"date":"2026-03-12T18:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/808626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:39:21","slug":"seahawks-bring-back-brady-russell-on-two-year-deal-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/808626\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks bring back Brady Russell on two-year deal in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Seahawks<\/a> brought back another one of their unrestricted free agents this offseason.<\/p>\n

According to NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero (via The Athletic\u2019s Michael-Shawn Dugar),<\/a> fullback Brady Russell agreed to resign with the Seahawks<\/a> on a two-year deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Russell won the Super Bowl with the Seahawks in 2026, defeating the New England Patriots<\/a> by a score of 29-13. The 27-year-old switched positions from tight end to fullback last season. Russell saw 396 of his 454 total snaps in 2025 on special teams.<\/p>\n

The California native has been vital for the Seahawks on special teams, finishing sixth on the team in special teams tackles in 2023 with 7, as well as first in 2024 with 10.<\/p>\n

Russell returns to Seattle for his age-28 season in the NFL in 2026. Next season will be his fourth in the league after being signed by the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> as an undrafted free agent in 2023.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: Seahawks free agency: Seattle brings back Brady Russell on 2-year deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks brought back another one of their unrestricted free agents this offseason. According to NFL Network\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[2872,7,9422,249,6,109,238,237,261,2635,2948,3257,12069],"class_list":["post-808626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-seahawks","tag-brady-russell","tag-football","tag-michael-shawn-dugar","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-seattleseahawks","tag-special-teams","tag-tom-pelissero","tag-unrestricted-free-agents"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116217666884101025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808626","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=808626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}