Seahawks early cuts include a surprise: DeShawn Shead

The Seahawks began the cutdown to 53 players yesterday. You could see most of these weeks ago, but DeShawn Shead was a major surprise.

Today is cut day for the Seahawks. Naturally, every team in the league has to drop down to a 53-man roster. To me, it’s the absolute worst day of the season. 37 players who dreamed of making the Hawks will be told they just weren’t good enough. At least, not this time for this team. Therein lies a spark of hope. Seattle will undoubtedly pick up a few players that were cut by other teams. They just have to hope no other team picks up their most surprising cut so far, DeShawn Shead.

For the few that don’t know – aka newly minted 12s – Shead is family for the…