Kicker Consideration: Battle for Seahawks punting duties gets underway

Football is back and that means so is Kicker Consideration, your one stop shop for stats, analysis, and news for the Seahawks special teamers, and starting year 2 of the series we have ourselves a battle at punter.

Here at Fieldgulls we had speculated the team would move to find a replacement for Jon Ryan as his cap hit rapidly increases this season from $1 million to $2.6 million, but moving up in the fifth round and drafting a punter came as a surprise to many. John Schneider had, before the 2018 draft, never selected a kicker or punter with a draft pick, but for the majority of his tenure with Steven Hauschka and Ryan he never needed to.

It was probably never the case, even given the need…