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Stay still and don’t blink: One way the Seahawks look for a ‘thin slice of grit’

Back in March 2018, former Texas Longhorns punter Michael Dickson was interviewing with teams at the NFL combine. Dickson said the strangest question he’d gotten from a team was to compete in a starting contest. That team was the Seattle Seahawks, and they ultimately gave up a seventh round pick to move up seven spots in the fifth round to select the All-Pro punter.

In the Audible Original “Compete to Create,” released on July 9 by Seahawks sport psychologist Michael Gervais and co-authored by Pete Carroll, there are details of a much more elaborate test.