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What moves the Seahawks made to fix their once-great run defense

On Sunday, I posted part I of this piece looking at how the Seahawks run defense went from dominant to laying out a welcome mat to opposing running backs in 2018. Now a brief recap of what Pete Carroll has done this offseason to try and correct that.

If you wanna know how bad they were, read part one. Now a position-by-position look at the changes starting at the most usual suspect on any defense when talking about the run: defensive tackle.

When I asked Field Gulls writers to chime in about the run defense, one person wasn’t shy about calling Shamar Stephen one of the worst defensive starters of the PC/JS era and specifically awful against the run.