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NFL rumors: Seattle Seahawks re-up with Artie Burns in secondary for 2023

After spending part of last season with Seattle, Artie Burns will re-up with the Seahawks on a one-year deal. He spent his first four professional seasons out of Miami with the Pittsburgh Steelers. After failing to make much of an impact in four years, the former first-round pick signed a one-year deal with the Chicago Bears in 2021 before playing three games last year for Seattle.

Clearly, this signing means the Seattle front office and coaching staff like what they saw out of Burns in limited action last year. It may have been a small sample size, but I tend to trust whatever Pete Carroll and John Schneider want to do from a team-building perspective on the back-end of their defense. One could argue the Seahawks might be the team to beat in the NFC West now.

This is entirely contingent on the health and play of the quarterback position in San Francisco. Los Angeles could bounce back after a hellish Super Bowl hangover, while Arizona is at least two years away from being two years away. Seattle may not have the highest ceiling, but very rarely do we see this franchise bottom out. Carroll won’t let them. Retaining Burns feels like a savvy move here.

Look for the Seahawks to be one of the five-to-eight best teams in the NFC again next season.