New CB

[D-train]

How about MM? You think he would bring in anybody possible just to get a football player? Do you buy into mikes vision for the team or is he a BSer?

Karl Scott, the Seahawks' defensive backs coach and defensive passing game coordinator, recruited Arnold to Alabama. Jalen Milroe, Seattle's No. 3 quarterback, is a close friend and former college teammate. The Seahawks spoke to them and several others about Arnold, including former Alabama coach Nick Saban and ex-NFL defensive back Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who now works for the school as the football program's director of player development.

,"It's overwhelmingly positive, it really is," Macdonald said of the feedback Seattle received on Arnold. "Again, it's a serious situation. There's allegations there that are serious. If you separate that from the person that they talk about [him being] on a daily basis and their history with him, it's been overwhelmingly positive."

"We had a great visit," Macdonald said. "We had a great discussion. It was a real discussion. We just kept it real. I have a responsibility coming from the organization about what we expect and also what our vision would be for him and how it would operate, and he was great. He was great. I appreciated his honesty in those moments, and that's really all you could ask for."

I think it is a JS decision and MM was either neutral on it or didn't feel it was his place to try to veto it. This is speculation on my.

[D-train]

How about MM? You think he would bring in anybody possible just to get a football player? Do you buy into mikes vision for the team or is he a BSer?

Karl Scott, the Seahawks' defensive backs coach and defensive passing game coordinator, recruited Arnold to Alabama. Jalen Milroe, Seattle's No. 3 quarterback, is a close friend and former college teammate. The Seahawks spoke to them and several others about Arnold, including former Alabama coach Nick Saban and ex-NFL defensive back Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who now works for the school as the football program's director of player development.

,"It's overwhelmingly positive, it really is," Macdonald said of the feedback Seattle received on Arnold. "Again, it's a serious situation. There's allegations there that are serious. If you separate that from the person that they talk about [him being] on a daily basis and their history with him, it's been overwhelmingly positive."

"We had a great visit," Macdonald said. "We had a great discussion. It was a real discussion. We just kept it real. I have a responsibility coming from the organization about what we expect and also what our vision would be for him and how it would operate, and he was great. He was great. I appreciated his honesty in those moments, and that's really all you could ask for."

Whenever I see the name Ha Ha Clinton Dix I wonder if that is what Monica thought the first time he dropped his drawers for her in the Oval office. lol

[Donn Beach]

This seems like a pretty good breakdown of the situation. Sounds like a trip to spring training, like i said they all knew each other. The guy that they suspected was Arnolds driver. They have a couple of guilty pleas already. Those are the guys that have flipped on Arnold. I suspect a lot of the case depends on them.

You have a group of friends, someone Is suspected of ripping off the others so you rough him up a little. Life in prison seems a little over the top

According to the police investigation, the incident began after personal property belonging to Arnold and others was stolen Feb. 1 from an Airbnb that Arnold rented in Largo, Florida, and periodically stayed at with the six codefendants -- Arianna Del Valle, Jasmine Randazzo, Lyndell Hudson, Christion Williams, Boakai Hilton and Freddie Lee Hughes III -- and other friends.

Arnold, Hilton, Hughes and another individual reported property loss totaling more than $250,000 to the Largo Police Department on Feb. 3. Arnold, according to Tampa police, suspected that two of the three victims in the kidnapping case were responsible for the Airbnb robbery, but investigators later determined they were not involved.

The state attorney's office, in its release, accused Arnold of "orchestrating the kidnapping and robbery just hours after reporting the missing items to the Largo Police Department." Investigators said they located a group chat in which Arnold and Hilton reportedly gave directions to Del Valle, Williams and Hudson during the assault at the apartment.

Two of the codefendants in the case have pleaded guilty and the other four are being held without bond, according to the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office.

[D-train]

Seems like a smart guy. Take $250k worth of stuff to an Air BNB with a bunch shady people.

[Donn Beach]

Seems like a smart guy. Take $250k worth of stuff to an Air BNB with a bunch shady people.

Not really, seems even more questionable his reaction to it. But i dont think we get much of a football team if its a function of iq tests. Reminds me of the Jalen Carter situation. Eveybody was convinced he was going to be a locker room cancer, he seems to be working out ok. Or Frank Clark. Everybody focuses on his DV arrest, hed already been kicked off the michigan squad for theft.

[D-train]

I have no concerns about him being a clubhouse cancer. Is he going to assault and kidnap other players???

[Donn Beach]

I have no concerns about him being a clubhouse cancer. Is he going to assault and kidnap other players???

Seems like that depends on them messing with his shit. Probably a lot of them see what he did as being pretty fucking reasonable.
I doubt anyone would be scared of him

[D-train]

Wild that Leon Washington is his Father figure.

One major red flag is that the team that he was on for two years decided he wasn't good enough to take the risk.

By Bob Condotta
Seattle Times staff reporter
Now that the Seahawks have made the much-debated and highly dissected decision to sign cornerback Terrion Arnold, the next question is when anyone will see him on the field.

While the Seahawks confirmed Friday that Arnold had agreed to sign what is expected to be a one-year contract at the league minimum, the team has made no announcement of an official signing yet.

Indications of exactly when that will happen are unclear. It’s possible it could take after the Seahawks make their trip this week to Nashville, Tenn., for a joint practice Friday with the Titans and then a game Sunday.

It also remains unclear if he will play in preseason games, as was initially suspected he might be able to do.

In comments on Seattle Sports 710 on Saturday before the team’s preseason-opening 17-7 loss to Dallas, Seahawks general manager John Schneider said, “He’s got a lot of things legally he’s got to work through. And from a timing standpoint, we’re still working through some things, as well.’’


The short version of the legal things that Arnold has to work through is having been charged with eight felonies — four for armed robbery and four for kidnapping — relating to an incident in February in Tampa, Fla.

Those charges were enough when levied in June to compel the Detroit Lions to waive him after two seasons with the team that had taken him 24th overall in the 2024 draft.

Arnold has submitted a not-guilty plea and has a status hearing Oct. 5 in Tampa that he will have to attend in person.

For now, after posting $1 million bond, he is free to pursue football.

However, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could put Arnold on the Commissioner’s Exempt List, which would mean he couldn’t play or practice until he is taken off the list, which can be for an indefinite period. Coach Mike Macdonald said Friday that the team has not heard anything from the NFL about when Arnold might be available.

All of that seems to indicate that signing Arnold might be more about adding a potentially high-impact player down the road — maybe in the second half of the season — than getting immediate help.

Schneider on Saturday reiterated what Macdonald said Friday that the team signed Arnold in large part because of how strongly people the team trusts vouched for his character.

Schneider cited the influence of former Seahawk Leon Washington, who Schneider said “is basically a father figure of (Arnold’s). He refers to him as his dad.’’

Schneider said Washington — who played for Seattle from 2010-12 during Schneider’s first three years with the Seahawks — was “a huge, huge advocate (of Arnold)’’ and gave the team “a ton of background information for us.’’

In a 2024 Detroit Free Press article shortly after the Lions drafted him, Arnold referred to Leon Washington as “my brother’s dad,’’ a reference to Leon Washington Jr.

“Obviously we understand the seriousness of the allegations,’’ Schneider said. “… but basically what happened was he just had so many advocates in his corner.’’

Those advocates also included current Seahawks quarterback Jalen Milroe, who played with Arnold at Alabama, and last week called him his “best friend,’’ as well as Seahawks defensive passing game coordinator Karl Scott, who helped recruit him while an assistant at Alabama.

“He had a number of teams that were very interested in him,’’ said Schneider, referring to visits Arnold also took to Houston, New Orleans and the New York Giants, as well as reports that other NFL clubs wanted to bring him in. “So we felt like we needed to get in line to compete with all those other teams. He chose us, and we’re looking forward to helping him personally and professionally.’’

Despite the allegations against Arnold, Schneider said that in their investigation “all the character stuff was off the charts for us. Now we’ve got to see where this goes. It’s very serious. But we feel like we have the people, our foundational people in our building, that can help with the situation and put him in a good spot to succeed.’’

Schneider also said the decision was made only after talking to some of the team’s current players.

“We had organic conversations, Mike and I individually, with a number of players,’’ Schneider said. “We’re not going to do anything that’s going to mess up our culture. And you’ve got to be able to work your way through our building; and if you can’t, we’re going to have issues. But that’s not in our understanding from a character standpoint.’’

Milroe said he has been in contact with Arnold since the decision was made to sign with the Seahawks and that: “He’s doing good. He’s excited for the opportunity, and he is really going to seize it when he gets here.”

Milroe said he would do his part to assure Arnold will be a fit in the team’s locker room once he arrives.

“I’m very happy that he is going to be a Seahawk,’’ Milroe said. “I think now it’s just showing him the way of how we do things. I think that’s now a ‘move forward’ process. The process was trying to figure out where he’s going to go, so now he’s a (Seahawk). We’re just going to emphasize what we do being here in Seattle, and emphasizing our theme, our mottos and our team missions and goals, so now it’s a running-forward mentality with having him as part of our team.”

Asked what people should know about Arnold, Milroe said: “I think No. 1 is that he’s committed. When he has goals set for him, he wants to achieve them, and he’s going to put his all into everything he puts into it. This is someone that really cares about his teammates. He’s really unique, as far as what he can do on the field. He’s going to really love the culture that we have here because it’s similar to the vibe that we had when we were in college.”

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Wild that Leon Washington is his Father figure.

One major red flag is that the team that he was on for two years decided he wasn't good enough to take the risk.

Are the Seahawks just picking up his 1st round slot contract or dix that go away when the Packers cut him?

[D-train]

Wild that Leon Washington is his Father figure.

One major red flag is that the team that he was on for two years decided he wasn't good enough to take the risk.

Are the Seahawks just picking up his 1st round slot contract or dix that go away when the Packers cut him?

Lions cut him and have to pay his guaranteed money. We are paying him Minimum wage.