NFL suspends Seahawks reserve lineman Kyle Fuller for violating substance-abuse policy
The Seahawks’ competition at center may have just thinned by one.
The NFL announced Saturday is has suspended backup center and guard Kyle Fuller for the first two games of the 2020 season for violating the league’s policy on substances of abuse.
Fuller participated in Saturday’s mock-game scrimmage at CenturyLink Field as the second center.
Seattle signed Fuller as a free agent last year and put him on its practice squad. The three-year veteran from Baylor has also played for Washington and Houston.
Ethan Pocic supplanted offseason signing B.J. Finney as the starting center in training camp this week. Coach Pete Carroll mentioned Fuller as in the competition for the job to replace departed Justin Britt.
Pocic, the team’s second-round pick in 2017, was the starting center at LSU. He has mainly been a backup tackle and guard for Seattle.
“The center spot with Pocic...and you’ll see Kyle Fuller, as well as B.J,” Carroll said this week, “it’s going to be a wide-open competition.”
Finney began working a left guard this week. That’s where most of his snaps in his career, with Pittsburgh, have been.
That’s where Mike Iupati, Seattle’s 2019 starter the team signed back for 2020 in the spring, is starting right now.
This story was originally published August 22, 2020 at 1:17 PM.
