If you need a single data point to explain the Seahawks' urgency to acquire Jets bad-boy DT Sheldon Richardson for a second-round draft choice -- oh, yes, WR Jermaine Kearse too -- here it is:

65-27.

That's the combined score of the past two games in Lambeau Field against Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.

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The biggest surprise for the Seahawks on NFL cutdown day (90 to 53 players) Saturday was the release of WR Kasen Williams, a move that prompted All-Pro CB Richard Sherman to tweet, "There is no explanation for this!"

That wasn't the only big move by the Seahawks Saturday. They also traded DE Cassius Marsh to the New England Patriots and released two-year starter DT Ahtyba Rubin, a nine-year veteran.

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The pre-cutdown Seahawks whirlwind continued Friday afternoon at the VMAC with news that CB Tramaine Brock, signed recently a free agent, was traded to Minnesota for a seventh-round draft pick, according to NFL.com. That suggests that veteran CB Jeremy Lane, rumored to be on the trading block largely for purposes of the salary cap, is apparently safe. For now.

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The Seahawks Friday traded popular local (Lakes High School/University of Washington) guy Jermaine Kearse to the New York Jets for DL Sheldon Richardson, who apparently has been targeted since not long after top draftee Malik McDowell crashed his ATV and knocked himself out of his rookie season.

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Bulking up for the regular season, the Seahawks Friday traded a late-round draft pick to New England for veteran CB Justin Coleman, 24, who was with Seattle briefly on the practice squad in 2015 before joining the Patriots. The move, reported by ESPN, could be one of several as the Seahawks plot opportunities ahead of the NFL's cut-down to 53 players by 1 p.m. Saturday.

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If the NFL insists upon the charade of fake games, something minimally worthwhile needs to come out of them. Thursday night in Oakland, something did for the Seahawks in their 17-13 win (box) over the Raiders: Awareness that newcomer Austin Davis is a better backup quarterback than incumbent Trevone Boykin.

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Most of the people in his hometown weren't happy with what Seahawks C Justin Britt, son of an Army veteran, did during the national anthem. The town of Lebanon is in the southwest Missouri county of Laclede, which voted 80 percent for Donald Trump in the presidential election.

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In light of the past couple of Seahawks seasons of goodness-but-not-greatness, it is remarkably easy to forget that Russell Wilson not long ago was the 17th-ranked rusher in the NFL, ahead of thick-legged luminaries such as Jonathan Stewart, Steven Jackson, Chris Johnson and LeGarrette Blount.

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For a punter, Jon Ryan finds himself in the oddest places and moments, from TV's American Ninja Warrior ("The Gin-jah Nin-jah!") to the end of a fake punt run when he lost the football and his consciousness at the same time.

Now he can add The Sports Salon to his list of sideways sojourns.

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Other than charging customers full price for a fake game, the biggest grimace that accompanies the NFL preseason is the threat of injury. Friday night at the Clink, Kansas City's top running back, ex-Seahawk Spencer Ware, was carted off with a sprained knee. In New England, star WR Julian Edelman met the same fate.

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No team gets through an NFL preseason unscathed. But losing to injuries the top draftee, as well as potentially the most improved player, for the season puts the Seahawks among the leaders in the clubhouse for travails endured. Throw in a sucker punch from a teammate that knocked last year's top draftee through three days of practice, and the Seahawks are something less than bacon-wrapped ice cream.

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Pete Carroll tried to make everything sound OK with the Seahawks' offensive line, but minutes after he spoke with reporters Monday, a trade was made with Philadelphia that brought Matt Tobin, 27, who, according to Pro Football Focus, was given in 2016 the worst pass-protection grade ever for a guard since the analytics site began in 2007.

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Desperate to replenish their offensive line in the wake of the season-ending knee injury to LT George Fant Friday, the Seahawks Monday sent a 2018 fifth-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles to acquire 27-year-old Matt Tobin, who has mainly played guard during his five-year NFL career. Seattle will also receive a 2018 seventh-round pick.

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The season-ending loss of LT George Fant was as hard an injury punch to the gut as the Seahawks have taken in awhile, made irksome because it came in a meaningless game. Fant's trajectory was so positive, after an off-season physical makeover, that he already had locked down the vital O-line spot despite only eight regular-season games of NFL and college experience.

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If it were possible for an exhibition football game result to be more irrelevant than usual, the Seahawks' 20-13 triumph Friday night at the Clink over the Minnesota Vikings qualified, on two opposite counts.

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DE Michael Bennett kept to his plan of sitting out the national anthem, but was joined, surprisingly, at the bench by C Justin Britt, who stood to his left with a hand on Bennett's shoulder Friday night before the Seahawks-Vikings exhibition game at the Clink.

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In his first couple of seasons with the Seahawks, Justin Britt's NFL future looked a little shaky. Now it just looks wealthy.

Firmly established as one the NFL's better centers, Britt was rewarded with a three-year contract extension Thursday worth up to $27 million, with $15 million guaranteed. He'll make $13.25 million next season, according to the NFL Network.

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The Seahawks have signed to a one-year contract former 49ers CB Tramaine Brock, who was cleared of domestic violence charges last week in Santa Clara, CA. He was signed for the minimum for a seven-year player, $900,000. He made $2.7 million last season.

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Add two more to the long list of people anguished over the grim, non-sports news of the weekend: Oday Aboushi and Pete Carroll. One was crushed to see his college hometown awash in hate and blood, the other surprised to see a player he thought he knew well fuel a national controversy by, without notice, sitting out the national anthem.

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Regarding his professional athletic life, Michael Bennett is paid to be a disrupter. Regarding his personal life, the Seahawks star is a disrupter by choice. He's bringing the latter to a conscience near you. Perhaps your own.

For some 12s, it's about to get awkward. Which is, of course, his point. If you choose to shut him out, he'll come to the attention of your kids.

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