Remarkable things happened with three athletes connected to our sports marketplace that merit some conversation. One was appealing, one was appalling, one was applause-worthy. Or not, depending on one's perspective.

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Jake Heaps is back for an encore at Seahawks practice this summer. The former Skyline High School star signed a free agent contract with the Seahawks over the weekend and will be one of at least four quarterbacks in camp.

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Legion of Boom: The Sequel.

At least that's the working title of the Seahawks treatment as of the last weekend in April. Whether the film makes the big screen by September, or later, is why the NFL has training camps.

Think about it.

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The Seahawks Saturday spent their first pick on the third day of the NFL draft, 111th overall in the fourth round, on the University of Colorado's Tedric Thompson, a 6-0, 204-pound safety who made second-team All-Pac-12 last year after finishing with seven interceptions, tied for third in FBS. They followed two rounds later (187th overall) with another safety, Mike Tyson of Cincinnati.

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John Schneider came up with a new metric for draft analysis: Ethan Pocic was a two-shirter.

So worried was the Seahawks general manager Friday afternoon that he wouldn't get the 6-foot-6, 310-pound offensive lineman from Louisiana State with the draft's 58th choice that he had to switch to a fresh shirt.

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After the Green Bay Packers started the second round of the NFL draft Friday by selecting CB Kevin King of the University of Washington, the Seahawks again traded down and selected DT Malik McDowell of Michigan State with the 35th pick. By making the trade with Jacksonville, the Seahawks picked up a sixth-round pick at 187th overall, giving them 11 choices in the final two days of the draft.

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It may be some sort of religious ritual, or perhaps a superstition, possibly a simple bar dare, seeing if the Seahawks can stay in contention by avoiding convention. Or maybe the first round has cooties that only the Seahawks see. But they did it again. Twice.

After trading down and then out of the first round, coach Pete Carroll fought hard to contain a snicker of glee.

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For the fourth time in five years, Seahawks GM John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll failed to make a pick in the first round of the NFL draft. What they did instead was make a pair of trades, with the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers, to acquire additional selections. Seattle enters the remainder of the draft Friday and Saturday with 10 selections after starting it with seven.

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In their seven NFL drafts together since 2010, GM John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll have, as the club’s information gurus noted this week, selected 66 players. Twenty-four remain on Seattle’s roster and 23 are currently with other teams. With a hit rate of 71.2 percent (47 of 66), Schneider and Carroll don’t whiff often.

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Marshawn Lynch passed a physical exam Wednesday in Oakland and will join his hometown Raiders. Oakland will swap late-round picks in the 2018 draft with the Seahawks to complete a trade for the 31-year old running back, who signed a two year contract. Both teams confirmed the deal, and Lynch will host a block party Thursday to celebrate his homecoming.

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He didn't yell at anyone to get off the Clink's artificial lawn, but John Schneider did sound a tad cranky when talking about how the darn kids play college football these days.

"When you watch college football, the majority of it looks more like basketball on grass,” the Seahawks general manager told reporters Monday. "Things are just not quite as clear as they used to be, and that’s just my personal belief. There’s not a forest of offensive linemen trees out there that you can just run out to the back yard" and pluck a couple of big'ns.

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For those Seahawks followers weary of the Richard Sherman trade story, here is what general manager John Schneider said in his annual pre-draft media briefing Monday at team headquarters:

"Right now we kinda moved past it."

Well then, that's it, right? Not exactly.

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John Schneider said something peculiar the other day. He said CB Richard Sherman might need a spark.

That's right -- a guy making $13 million, widely considered among the best in his position, playing on a team that's claimed a Super Bowl and has won playoff games five years in a row in a city that adores him, working for a coach with more tolerance for eccentricity than Dumbledore at Hogwarts, needs a spark.

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The 2017 NFL season doesn’t begin for another five months but, if the past is any indication, the Seahawks are already 0-1. They open Sept. 10 against Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers at their horror house, Lambeau Field, where Seattle is 3-10 all-time and has dropped seven consecutive games since 1999.

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Perhaps signaling dismay with his current situation, CB Richard Sherman was reported to be skipping the team's voluntary workouts that began Tuesday. The Seahawks have been listening to trade offers for their star after a 2016 season pickled with controversies. Other players have skipped these workouts in the past, and there is no consequence for absence.

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According to multiple reports, including this one from the San Jose Mercury News, the Seahawks did not match restricted free agent OT Gary Gilliam's offer sheet from San Francisco. Gilliam will sign a one-year deal with the 49ers worth $2.2 million, with $1.4 million guaranteed. Seattle placed a tender on Gilliam prior to free agency worth $1.797 million, but that did not include any guaranteed money.

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The NFL Network reported Friday that running back Marshawn Lynch has agreed to terms with the Oakland Raiders. Contract details have yet to be disclosed. In order for Lynch to return to the NFL, the Seahawks, who still own his rights, will have to trade him, at which point he will officially apply for reinstatement.

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Free agent DE Dion Jordan, a three-time violator of the NFL's substance-abuse program cut two weeks ago by the Miami Dolphins after failing a physical, was signed Tuesday by the Seahawks, according to a report in USA Today. The deal is likely a low-risk, one-year deal to see if Jordan, the No. 3 pick in the 2013 draft, can overcome his past, as well as a knee injury that forced him to sit out the 2016 season.

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The Seahawks open the 2017 preseason on the road, facing the newly relocated Los Angeles Chargers at L.A.'s StubHub Center, which seats 30,000. Seattle follows with CenturyLink Field games against the Minnesota Vikings and Kansas City Chiefs before closing out the exhibition slate in Oakland against the Raiders.

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In the unfolding saga of the Seahawks' potential trade of CB Richard Sherman, it appears that the stage has been reached where we can ask him the much-memed question he asked of QB Tom Brady on the Clink field in 2012 after Seattle beat the New England Patriots 24-23:

"U mad, bro?"

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