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Hawthorne to visit Lions on Tuesday

Eric Williams - Staff writer

March 18, 2012 6:09 AM

First reported by Aaron Wilson of Scout.com, I can confirm that Seattle Seahawks free agent linebacker David Hawthorne is scheduled to visit the Detroit Lions on Tuesday.

Hawthorne already visited New Orleans on Friday, along with Atlanta Falcons free agent linebacker Curtis Lofton, and Denver free agent middle linebacker Joel Mays.

The Lions are working to get a deal done with starting middle linebacker Steve Tulloch, but Hawthorne could be insurance if that deal falls through.

The TCU product led the Seahawks in tackles the last three seasons, but Seattle have showed little interest in bringing Hawthorne back to Seattle.

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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.