THE DAILY FEED

Seattle Adds a Corner, Subtracts a Tight End, Right Before the Doors Open

On Tuesday, the day before veterans report to Renton, the Seahawks signed cornerback Brandon Johnson and waived tight end Harrison Bryant. It’s the kind of 90-man tinkering that never makes a headline, and it tells you exactly where the front office is nervous.

Johnson came into the league last year as an undrafted rookie out of Oregon and spent most of 2025 on Philadelphia’s practice squad, appearing in three games and starting one at cornerback before the Eagles waived him last month. He’s a converted college safety with real production behind him, but nobody’s pretending this is a splash. He’s a body added to a room that suddenly has room.

And it does have room. Two defensive backs are already parked on the PUP list to open camp: Nick Emmanwori, whose undisclosed injury materialized out of nowhere after a full minicamp, and Tyrone Broden, the 6-foot-5 receiver-turned-corner whose whole experiment stalls if he can’t get on the field. Behind Witherspoon and Jobe, the CB3 and nickel reps were already wide open. Now two of the guys who’d be competing for them are watching from the side.

You don’t sign a camp corner on the eve of veterans reporting because the room is settled. You do it because it isn’t.

Bryant is the cost. The former Mackey Award winner signed this spring as blocking depth and never carved out a spot, and the tight end room was crowded enough to make him the odd man out. No drama there. Just arithmetic, and the arithmetic kept moving until his chair was gone.