Avril, the now-former Seahawk, has turned into a mentor for a player the team is hoping can help replace him.
For two weeks this summer, class was in session early each morning at the Athletic Form gym on 6th Avenue South in Seattle.
The teacher? Cliff Avril, a now-former Seahawk and budding talk-show host on KJR-AM 950.
The student? Quinton Jefferson, a 2016 fifth-round draft pick who is one of the players the Seahawks are counting on to replace Avril and Michael Bennett, who from 2013-17 formed the core of the team’s defensive line.
Or maybe instead of teacher-student, it’s really more, as Avril put it, “a big-brother, little-brother type of feel.