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USAT: Patriots Wire

Feb 18, 2022

With Richard Seymour headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the NFL world has begun to dig up stories of the dominant New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders defensive lineman. - Seymour, the sixth-overall pick in 2001, finished with three Super Bowl rings and seven Pro Bowl appearances. He also managed an absurd 496 tackles and 57.5 sacks. The man was virtually unstoppable at just about every position on the offensive line. That’s what drew the Patriots to him at the outset of Bill Belichick’s dynasty in New England. - Former Patriots executive Scott Pioli reflected upon first scouting Seymour when he was coming out of the University of Georgia. - “Sometimes as a scout, we love to look at analytics, we love to look at times, we love to look at those things, but sometimes you see and hear things as a scout that tell you about explosion, about power,” Pioli said during an appearance on NFL Network. “When Richard hit the goalpost, and swatted it, [with] the quickness, and the explosion, and then the movement, and the smoothness, and the athleticism, I could hear and see what this guy was made of. I was in awe. I hadn’t seen anyone that big, that explosive up close.” - - The value of in-person scouting? “Sometimes you see & HEAR things as a scout that tell you about explosion and power…”Congratulations to Richard Seymour (⁦@BigSey93⁩ ) on being elected to ⁦@ProFootballHOF⁩ #Patriots #RaiderNation #NFL #GMFB ⁦@nflnetwork⁩ pic.twitter.com/5DfEWnju0w - — Scott Pioli (@scottpioli51) February 16, 2022 - - - “To me, Richard is the total package,” Pioli concluded. “He’s not only a Hall of Fame player, because he had a Hall of Fame career, but he was truly—and is truly—a Hall of Fame person.” - - List - - Patriots have 5 players in PFF's top 101 players - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Patriots Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Patriots Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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