RENTON, Wash.
The Seahawks needed to bolster the cornerback position but didn’t have a chance to take either of the draft’s top two options, Derek Stingley Jr.
He won the Jim Thorpe Award last season as the nation’s top defensive back while playing opposite Gardner, who went fourth overall to the New York Jets after the Houston Texans took Stingley one pick earlier.
Bryant’s Cincinnati teammates sometimes called him “Red Mamba,” in a play on Kobe Bryant’s nickname Black Mamba, or Bean, which was the basketball player’s middle name.
