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Pete Carroll says new Seahawks linebacker Mychal Kendricks ‘deserves a second chance’

Mychal Kendricks is a Seahawk.

Let that fact sink in.

It’s improbable, of course, because the 5-foot-11, 240-pound linebacker pleaded guilty last month to a felony insider-trading charge, admitting he made $1.2 million in four illegal deals in 2014 and 2015 while he was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. He was subsequently released by the Cleveland Browns after pleading guilty.

In a statement last month, Kendricks wrote, in part, that “while I didn’t fully understand all of the details of the illegal trades, I knew it was wrong, and I wholeheartedly regret my actions.”

And yet, here he is.