As Seahawks fans hoped and anticipated, the team reacted fast on the first day free agents could officially sign last month to reel in a player who grew up in South Carolina and later starred for his state university.
A player who was so touted as a high-school senior for the class of 2011 that Alabama coach Nick Saban mounted a fevered late recruiting push to try to sign him even if everyone figured he was just going to stay in-state.
But wait, the Seahawks haven't signed Jadeveon Clowney, right?
So true.
But while that description above fits Clowney, on whom the Seahawks and the rest of the NFL are still waiting (and waiting, and waiting), it also fits a player the Seahawks did sign _ right tackle Brandon Shell, who spent the last four seasons with the New York Jets.
And if one needed to be told who Clowney was when he arrived in Seattle last fall, the signing of Shell sent even serious Seahawks scurrying to Pro Football Reference to find out more about the player brought in to replace the departed Germain Ifedi.
So, here are four things to know, starting with his relationship with one of the NFL's most famous offensive linemen ever.
