Martin, Edmunds Among Six Hawks Left For New Teams

Kelvin Martin, who caught 113 passes in the past two seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, was among six players the team has offered for the Feb. 15 expansion draft, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Wednesday.

The others were tight end Ferrell Edmunds, linebacker David Brandon, wide receiver Terrence Warren, cornerback Orlando Watters and defensive lineman Tyrone Rodgers, the newspaper said.

The names of the six Seahawks were submitted to the league office Tuesday.

Martin, 29, and Edmunds, 30, each is scheduled to make close to $1 million next season, making them expendable to the Seahawks.

Martin figures to be no better than the third wide receiver in new Seattle coach Dennis Erickson’s offense next season. Edmunds missed the final nine games last season because of two bulging discs in his back. Both were signed by the Seahawks as unrestricted free agents.

The expansion draft will help stock the rosters of the Jacksonville and Carolina expansion teams.

The Seahawks will lose no more than three players in the expansion draft. Once a player is picked, the team losing him may remove a player from its list. Jacksonville will pick first.

Erickson said Tuesday that he may hire former Seahawks defensive coordinator Tom Catlin to his coaching staff for the 1995 season. Catlin was among 12 Flores assistants who were fired. Erickson has hired four of them back.

“There are a lot of things I could learn from him,” Erickson said.

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