The Seattle Seahawks made the shocking and unforeseen decision to release linebacker Tyrel Dodson from his contract on Monday. Prior to the move, Dodson had been Seattle’s most-snapped defensive player this season, totaling 604 plays. That accounted for 98.37% of Mike Macdonald’s defensive snaps heading into Week 11.

Well, I think holistically as a defense,” Macdonald said, “we weren’t getting it done and we put a lot on our linebackers and so I hate that it had to work out just through [Baker and Dodson] because those two guys that we respect a lot and have come in and worked really hard.

Linebacker Tyrel Dodson was waived after starting the first nine games for the NFC West club. It's the latest in a series of changes at linebacker in Seattle as the Seahawks traded Jerome Baker for Ernest Jones before the deadline and now plan to move Tyrice Knight into the starting lineup.