…And Leon’s Getting Laarrger!

by A.J. Coltrane

I’ve talked about how the I thought the Seahawks were going to get bigger players with Pete Carroll in charge.  I estimated that in 2010 they’d be about 5 pounds heavier per man.

Here’s the table:

The Seahakws are bigger at every position except Tight End — they have a 227-pound special teams guy listed at TE.  If you take him out the TE’s average 255 pounds.

I left Fullback Owen Schmidt off of the table — the Seahawks don’t have a designated “Fullback” this year.

Sources: 

2010 roster, ESPN. 

2009 roster, Pro-Football-Reference[dot]com. 

Pro-Football-Reference is usually terrific for this kind of thing, but for whatever reason their 2010 roster listed only three offensive linemen.   According to their site the Seahawks got 9 pounds lighter in 2010, and that’s pretty obviously not right..

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Here’s a collection of Johnny’s scenes from Airplane!

…and here’s the making of the scene:  “I Speak Jive“, including a present-day interview with the two men.