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The Seahawks have had a lot of things go wrong in their first seven games, but it looks like the previously leaky defense might have fixed itself.

Brown flashed in his Seahawks debut, as the fourth-round pick's performance in 40 snaps could yield him more time at cornerback.

That is unless rookie Tre Brown or someone else beats him out. What makes those possibilities such a departure from Seattle's norm? Reed is 5-foot-9 and 193 pounds; Brown 5-10, 188. Times are changing in a secondary once known for its oversized cornerbacks. It's not that they no longer prefer big bodies such as Richard Sherman and the similarly built players who started opposite him during the Legion of Boom days. But they've loosened what used to be fairly rigid size specifications for that position. It started to become apparent when they played Reed on the outside in the second half of las...

That is unless rookie Tre Brown or someone else beats him out. What makes those possibilities such a departure from Seattle's norm? Reed is 5-foot-9 and 193 pounds; Brown 5-10, 188. Times are changing in a secondary once known for its oversized cornerbacks. It's not that they no longer prefer big bodies such as Richard Sherman and the similarly built players who started opposite him during the Legion of Boom days. But they've loosened what used to be fairly rigid size specifications for that position. It started to become apparent when they played Reed on the outside in the second half of las...