RENTON I’m from Ohio. Born and raised there. Parents still there. My two sisters attended Ohio State. My wife, also an Ohioan, has a master’s degree from the school everyone outside of Oregon knows as the true OSU. So, yes, I’m partial to Buckeyes. But that’s not the reason I think Tyvis Powell is making the Seahawks, a development that’s become more and more likely over the last three weeks. Not that he can think that right now. Powell is an undrafted rookie. That means this, for him, is Hell Week. A week of sleepless nights. The biggest, tensest week of his 22-year-old life. It’s NFL cut week. “WHOOOO!” Powell said to me with a long exhale off the edge of the practice field before Seattle completed its first wave of 15 roster cuts down to 75 players on Tuesday. “This week is definitely a tough week, mentally, because you know what is coming at the end of it.” Monday, his emergence was part of the reason the Seahawks gave up on their experiment with Brandon Browner. The team cut the veteran safety, a starter during its 2013 Super Bowl-winning season. Tuesday, Powell survived the rest of the first cuts.…
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