RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Leroy Hill looks back on his rookie season six years ago with the Seattle Seahawks and knows it couldn’t have gone more perfect: starting as a rookie on a dominant team that concluded its season with the only Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.
The surprise isn’t so much what’s happened to the Seahawks since losing a Super Bowl to Pittsburgh 21-10 that year, but that Hill is just one of two players remaining on Seattle’s roster that played in that title game against the Steelers.
Faces like Matt Hasselbeck, Lofa Tatupu, Shaun Alexander and Walter Jones, all key components of that Super Bowl run, are elsewhere, while Hill and cornerback Marcus Trufant remain as the only survivors with Seattle heading to Pittsburgh on Sunday.
