The Seattle Seahawks released nose tackle Bryan Mone to save just under $6 million in cap space.
Mone originally became a member of the Seahawks in 2019 when he was signed as an undrafted free agent from the Michigan Wolverines. Bryan Mone has spent every year of his career with the Seahawks and has solidified his place as a productive NFL nose tackle.
Bryan Mone tore his ACL with the Seattle Seahawks in 2022
In 2022, Mone had to be carted off the field in a week 15 matchup with the San Francisco 49ers after a torn ACL. This was just after Mone signed a two-year, $11 million contract with the Seattle Seahawks.
In an article from USA Today, the head coach at the time, Pete Carroll, explained that the setback was larger than they initially thought.
“He had a difficult surgery,” Carroll said last Monday. “We’ve got to wait and see. There was more stuff going on than we thought, he had some old stuff in there probably that was part of that. So he’s going to have a good battle to get back.“I don’t know what the timeframe is on it, but it’s going to take a while.”
Mone was relatively productive for the Seahawks in that season before tearing his ACL. He had 25 tackles and a batted pass, which are hard to get from the nose tackle position, whose job is to typically take on double teams and clog up the interior of the line.
The torn ACL in 2022 kept him off the field for the entirety of the 2023 season since it was so late in the season.
Bryan Mone’s only full season of contribution with the Seattle Seahawks came in 2021
After a slow welcoming to the NFL in his rookie year with the Seattle Seahawks, Bryan Mone came into his role in 2021, which was his most productive year in the NFL.
Mone finished the season with a career-high 33 tackles as well as 1.5 sacks, which was also a career-high number for the former Michigan Wolverine.
One thing that allowed Mone to see the field often as an undrafted free agent was his hustle. While he was mainly there to take on double teams and cause congestion on the line, Bryan Mone showed a lot of effort in his ability to pursue plays from behind.
In this play against the Los Angeles Rams, effort allows Bryan Mone to cause an incompletion to a player downfield.
Bryan Mone, cover nose tackle? pic.twitter.com/TsjqJm9t6d
— Corbin K. Smith (@CorbinSmithNFL) December 6, 2022
Bryan Mone also has a great ability to recognize plays as they are happening and adjust, just as he does on this bootleg against the Los Angeles Chargers. Plays like this don’t end up on the stat sheet, but they force a wasted play for the offense.
Nose Tackle Bryan Mone played this bootleg so well I thought I was missing a #Seahawks movement or stunt. It’s just fantastic rec+confidence from the nose. SAM LB Darrell Taylor did well in the buzz space to check for the deepest then flip back to the QBpic.twitter.com/oPtJfWI8N3
— Under Zone X (Frisco)/Phoenix Check/Stick Slasher2 (@mattyfbrown) August 30, 2021
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