Devon Witherspoon, Seahawks love throwbacks and say they should be permanent unis
Devon Witherspoon is 22. He’s in his prime of cool.
The rookie cornerback thinks the 1970s-90s throwback uniforms he and his Seahawks were wearing for their game Sunday against the Cleveland Browns at Lumen Field had, as the kids say, serious drip.
“Yeah,” they fit him, Witherspoon said in the days leading up to the game, “but they’re just dope in general, though.
“They can fit anybody’s style. It really doesn’t matter who puts them on. But, yeah, they fit me, for sure.”
Young and old(er) Seahawks alike don’t just love that they were wearing the royal blue jerseys, silver paints and helmets accented in blue and green with Seattle’s iconic, original, upright bird logo from their expansion season of 1976 into the final Kingdome days of ‘90s.
They want them to be the Seahawk’ permanent uniforms.
“(Hell), yeah,” veteran tight end Will Dissly said.
Last week at this time Frank Clark was home with his kids. On Wednesday he signed back with the Seahawks, who drafted him in 2015. Coach Pete Carroll asked the 30-year-old defensive end, given he’d only had three practices with the team, whether he wanted to play Sunday against the Browns.
“Hell, yeah!” Clark said. “I have to wear the throwbacks.
“I told Coach, ‘Look coach, I have to wear that green. I’ve never seen that, now. You didn’t bring the throwbacks when I was here (from 2015-18). You guys were wearing lime green and stuff.’
“I was like, ‘I have to throw the throwback on!’ That’s going to look really good on Sunday.”
Quarterback Geno Smith is aware of how popular the throwbacks are with Seahawks fans. It seemed like half of them at Lumen Field Sunday were wearing them of Hall of Famers Steve Largent, Cortez Kennedy and Kenny Easley, plus Seattle’s current stars Smith, DK Metcalf, Bobby Wagner, Tyler Lockett and others.
“I know a lot of fans love it,” Smith said.
“I actually had some text me and say we should wear it permanently.”
Rookie running back Kenny McIntosh, 23, was excited this past week to talk about his return to practicing after two months on injured reserve.
He was absolutely stoked to talk about the throwback jerseys he and the Seahawks’ offensive players wore in practice this week to get used to them.
“Oh, I love these. Man!” McIntosh said at his locker before practice Thursday. “These are my favorite colors, first of all. Then I saw these, with the side?”
He pointed to the old-school Seahawk logo on his sleeve.
“They have to make these the regular. They need to make these for the whole season,” he said.
Then McIntosh waved his hand across the locker room.
“Everybody’s been saying that,” he said. “Plus the helmet. The helmet looks clean!
“Oh, I love the throwbacks!”
The Seahawks will wear them one more time this season, on Nov. 30 when they play a Thursday night game at Dallas.
Inactive Seahawks
Starting right guard Phil Haynes was inactive for Sunday’s game. He didn’t practice all week because of his lingering calf injury. Rookie Anthony Bradford started again for Haynes.
The rest of Seattle’s inactive players: wide receiver Cody Thompson, cornerback Kyu Blu Kelly, linebacker Drake Thomas, offensive lineman McClendon Curtis and offensive tackle Raiqwon O’Neal.
Jason Peters was active for the game. He was the backup to Stone Forsythe at right tackle. The Seahawks elevated the 41-year-old Peters from the practice squad for the first time since he signed onto it seven weeks ago.
This story was originally published October 29, 2023 at 12:47 PM.
