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Seahawks sign Hill, McCoy

Darrin Beene - Staff writer

April 12, 2012 08:01 AM

The linebacking corps for the Seahawks just got a little deeper.

The team announced they have signed linebackers Leroy Hill and Matt McCoy to one-year contracts.

Hill, who has played his entire seven-year career with the Seahawks after being drafted in the third round out of Clemson, had been a free agent. The market cooled while he dealt with an arrest for marijuana possession charge in February that was later dropped in March.

Last season, Hill had 89 tackles and four sacks while playing in 16 games. He is one of two remaining players from Seattle’s NFC championship team in 2005.

McCoy has been with the Seahawks the last two years. He was placed on the injured reserve with a knee injury after playing in four games.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.