{"id":810058,"date":"2026-03-13T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:36:31","slug":"seahawks-free-agency-2026-seattle-signs-ex-colts-safety-rodney-thomas-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810058\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks free agency 2026: Seattle signs ex-Colts safety Rodney Thomas II"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last, the Seattle Seahawks have finally signed an outside free agent!<\/p>\n

Thomas battled his way onto the Colts\u2019 53-man roster as a rookie and ended up becoming their starting strong safety in his 2nd year<\/a>. Nick Cross was eventually preferred to Thomas and replaced him in the starting lineup in 2024. While Thomas hasn\u2019t started recently, he\u2019s been a fixture on Indy\u2019s special teams units.<\/p>\n

For the Seahawks, safety became a position of need after losing safety Coby Bryant in free agency to the Chicago Bears<\/a>. It will be interesting to see if Thomas is given a chance to compete for a starting position against Ty Okada, or if the Seahawks hand Okada the starting position alongside Julian Love. Seattle will seemingly give backup safeties AJ Finley and Maxen Hook a look too. Regardless, bringing in another safety with starting experience like Thomas will help put Seattle in a position to not have to force a draft pick at safety come April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At last, the Seattle Seahawks have finally signed an outside free agent! Thomas battled his way onto the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,6545,718,5580],"class_list":{"0":"post-810058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-free-agency","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks-roster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116222375903847484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810058","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=810058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}