Who is your all time favorite DL?

seabowl · May 15, 2026

Tez is #1 for sure. Notable mentions that haven’t been mentioned that I’ve seen:

Rufus Porter
Michael McCrary
Rocky Bernard

RolandDeschain · May 15, 2026

GeekHawk said:
Tez was the Defensive Player of the Year on a 2-win team, as I recall. Who does that?!?

Especially in South Alaska.

HawaiiD · May 16, 2026

Jacob Green,Joe Nash,Jeff Bryant, and Manu Tuiasosopo yep I'm that old

Ozzy · May 17, 2026

Kennedy for me but Williams has moved into second.

Atradees · May 17, 2026

stang233 said:
I do think Sam Adam’s should be on thee list

Didn't Kennedy and Sam Adams work together a bit? Yeah them two kept me reading the stats sheets when there wasn't much hope.

Chevy · May 18, 2026

I always enjoyed watching Red Bryant being a bully playing DE. Super sized (6'4" 320 lbs) DE on a 4-3 defense was definitely unique. Great leader, similar to Jarran Reed in that aspect.

Here is a cool video of Red giving a speech, he was retired at this point, to Seahawks players.

pittpnthrs · May 18, 2026

seabowl said:
Tez is #1 for sure. Notable mentions that haven’t been mentioned that I’ve seen:

Rufus Porter
Michael McCrary
Rocky Bernard

Rufus doesn't get enough love.

8-bit · May 18, 2026

Tez, Green, Rufus, and Nash

Wsumatt1982 · May 18, 2026

pittpnthrs said:
Rufus doesn't get enough love.

I almost said Rufus but I couldn't be bothered if he was DL or OLB (Of course times/positions were different then) so I went elsewhere.

chris98251 · May 18, 2026

Fredd Young and Rufus both played that Backer position more like a DE.

MORGULON · May 18, 2026

I'd like to give an honorable mention to Mr Chad Brown . Dude got after it

Azvacar · May 18, 2026

MORGULON said:
I'd like to give an honorable mention to Mr Chad Brown . Dude got after it

I mean now a days.. we'd probably use him as a Edge right? But I thought Chad was a LB?

MORGULON · May 18, 2026

Azvacar said:
I mean now a days.. we'd probably use him as a Edge right? But I thought Chad was a LB?

He was listed as OLB but he was basically a rush DE.

That made me hesitant to list him but I don't care

Kamcussionator · May 18, 2026

My favorite to say was: Manu Tuiasosopo

Sperrydogg · May 18, 2026

A few guys that were here late that I liked

Julian Peterson
Patrick Kearney
Grant Wistrom

I have a Grant Wistrom jersey

loafoftatupu · May 19, 2026

I have seen them all since ground zero. It is Tez hands down, the guy would get TRIPLE teamed, Wooden, Woods and Green all were benefactors. I am 6'2 a healthy 205 and have been since the late 80s, when meeting Tez he was actually a little shorter than me and didn't really look all that "big" around the body but he was built like a tank. Tez was also very, very quick. Funny, when I met Cortez Kennedy I also met a few of the other players, one that stood out was Rick Mirer because he was a tiny looking fk and a bleeding vaginal canal. Sure, Mirer was a nice guy but he looked like Russ only didn't have an arm and couldn't run for shit. He also spoke like he was in mid puberty. Sorry, I hated that pick with a passion when it happened.

Hotchy · May 19, 2026

Tez's initial burst off the snap was awesome to watch. The way he shot off the line just fudged up a lot of plays for opposing offenses. You dont get MVP at DT unless you're special. Looked like a man amongst boys. Great person too

MagnificentSeven · May 19, 2026

I'm just going to say the 1996 Seahawks Defensive Line as a whole. The four starters (McCrary, Sinclair, Adams and Tez) tallied 40 sacks as a group. Give Coach McDonald that type of domination from your starting four and he'd have a blast calling Defense.

SeahawkSteve80 · May 19, 2026

Sperrydogg said:
A few guys that were here late that I liked

Julian Peterson
Patrick Kearney
Grant Wistrom

I have a Grant Wistrom jersey

Beat me to it man, I was about to say Grant Winstrom. He was a lot of fun to watch

MORGULON · May 19, 2026

MagnificentSeven said:
I'm just going to say the 1996 Seahawks Defensive Line as a whole. The four starters (McCrary, Sinclair, Adams and Tez) tallied 40 sacks as a group. Give Coach McDonald that type of domination from your starting four and he'd have a blast calling Defense.

Now that was a freaking excellent line

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