{"id":867967,"date":"2026-04-16T21:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:54:35","slug":"seattle-seahawks-host-veteran-pass-rusher-dante-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867967\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks host veteran pass rusher Dante Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks have made it clear that they will be looking to add to their pass rushing depth this offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the official transaction wire, veteran edge rusher Dante Fowler visited the Seahawks. Fowler was most recently with the Dallas Cowboys for a second time, playing in all regular season games and recording three sacks and 30 pressures in a rotational role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fowler was drafted third overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars back in the 2015 NFL Draft, staying local as a former Florida Gator. An ACL tear during rookie mini-camp ended his season in an instant, and while he was a key part of Jacksonville\u2019s elite 2017 defense that propelled an unlikely AFC Championship Game run, he was still dealt to the Los Angeles Rams midway through 2018. His career-high 11.5 sacks came with the Rams in 2019, after which he joined Dan Quinn\u2019s Atlanta Falcons on a sizeable $16 million\/year free agent contract. Fowler followed Quinn to Dallas in 2022, recording six sacks in his first season with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After his first Cowboys stint, Fowler signed a one-year deal with the Washington Commanders in 2024, reuniting with Dan Quinn and posting 10.5 sacks en route to the NFC Championship Game. Fowler\u2019s return to the Cowboys was on a one-year, $6 million contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the 31-year-old Fowler has spent a lot of his years playing in former Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn\u2019s defenses, he also has familiarity with current Seahawks DC Aden Durde, who was on Quinn\u2019s Falcons staff from 2018-2020 before becoming Cowboys defensive line coach from 2021-2023. Over the last two offseasons the Seahawks signed former Cowboys Johnathan Hankins and DeMarcus Lawrence, both of whom similarly had ties to Durde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Seattle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-free-agency\/164284\/nfl-news-seahawks-free-agency-2026-boye-mafe-agrees-to-3-year-deal-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did not retain Boye Mafe in free agency<\/a>, whereas Uchenna Nwosu and Derick Hall are entering the final years of their respective contracts. Whether through the free agent market, the draft, or even a trade, the short- and long-term expectation is that the Seahawks will want more depth at outside linebacker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For anyone concerned about comp picks, there is no rush to sign Fowler. Any player signed from Apr. 28 onward will not count against teams in the compensatory pick formula, which means the Seahawks should have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-nfl-draft\/164914\/seattle-seahawks-double-digit-picks-2027-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maximum four comp picks<\/a> heading into next year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks have made it clear that they will be looking to add to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,718,719,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-867967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116416614514177349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867967","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=867967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}