The Seahawks held an OTA (organized team activities) today, and as has been the case for all of the offseason workouts so far, linebacker Leroy Hill was absent.
Hill was arrested last month for domestic violence, and that arrest came just nine days after he had plead guilty for a marijuana charge from a year earlier. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll continues to be asked about Hill each time we talk to him, but so far there is no new news.
“I don’t have anything to update you on,” Carroll said. “We’re waiting for word from the league office, where they stand about all of this, and we’ll just have to wait it out. They were not able to tell us when that’s going to come, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”
Asked if Hill is still going to be part of the team, he said: “I’m hoping. He’s part of our team, I’m hoping he will be and we need to see what that all means, but we’ll figure it out when the time comes.”
In Hill’s absence, David Hawthorne was playing the weakside linebacker position with the first-team defense. Last year Hawthorne stuck to middle linebacker, filling in for an injured Lofa Tatupu, but the new coaching staff is looking at him at other linebacker spots.
Also absent were linebacker Will Herring and running back running back LenDale White. Herring was tending to a family matter, Carroll said, while White was in Tennessee dealing with issues stemming from the recent flooding in Tennessee.
Rookie safety Earl Thomas was not able to attend this minicamp because the University of Texas is still in school.
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