Specifically, why didn’t the team bring K.J. back for the 2021 season?
The answer, for those who were convinced that the team was waiting to sign him until the regular season started or to keep him on the ghost roster as injury depth or whatever other narrative one hoped to be the case, Wright’s answer cuts directly to the core of the issue: the bear front scheme. In the bear front the Seahawks rolled out in order to slow the under center, wide zone attacks of the division rival Rams and San Francisco 49ers, the team’s personnel needs were different than they had been in seasons past. In particular, the bear front the team adopted functioned much more along the lines of a 3-4, needing just two off ball linebackers and two outside linebackers who functioned more like defensive ends. [urltargetblank]https://www.fieldgulls.com/2022/2/3/22915965/kj-wright-shares-why-seattle-seahawks-didnt-bring-him-back-2021-mayowa-dunlap-hyder-rush-bear-scheme[/urltargetblank]