Austin Davis will not be backing up Russell Wilson from the coaching staff

Friday the Seattle Seahawks announced a small number of changes to the coaching staff for the 2019 season in advance of heading out for the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. One of the announcements that came as a bit of a surprise was that Austin Davis, who had formerly served as Russell Wilson’s backup as recently as the 2017 season would be joining the staff as an offensive assistant.

As offensive assistant Davis is filling the role which had been vacated when Steve Shimko was promoted to assistant quarterbacks coach, and places Davis in a role where he should be comfortable, due to his familiarity with the offense of assistant coach Brian Schottenheimer. Davis was in camp with the then St.…