The Seattle Seahawks have hired Brian Schottenheimer as offensive coordinator.

Schottenheimer's addition to the Seahawks' coaching staff comes less than a week after the team ended offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell's seven-year run in Seattle.

Schottenheimer was offensive coordinator of the Jets from 2006 until 2011 and for the Rams from 2012 until 2014. Schottenheimer was most recently quarterbacks coach of the Colts in 2016 and 2017.

Seattle is expected to run more of a college style offense to complement the abilities of Russell Wilson.  

The Seattle Seahawks have agreed to hire Ken Norton Jr. as defensive coordinator.

Norton previously worked for the Seahawks from 2010 until 2014 as linebackers coach. Norton left the franchise to become defensive coordinator of the Oakland Raiders. Norton was fired during the 2017 season.

Norton was hired recently to join the San Francisco 49ers as linebackers coach.

The Seahawks had been expected to fire current defensive coordinator Kris Richard. Seattle previously has had Gus Bradley and Dan Quinn as defensive coordinator during Pete Carroll's tenure. The Seahawks had been linked to bringing back Bradley this offseason.

The Seattle Seahawks are considering running a college-style offense next season to take advantage of the mobility of Russell Wilson.

Wilson has typically made plays with his legs when his first reads are not available and the play breaks down.

The Seahawks could instead use Wilson's ability to scramble as part of the plan.

Seattle has interest in hiring Philadelphia quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo. The Eagles' offense has some of those college concepts.

The Seattle Seahawks have seen changes to their coaching staff this month, but Doug Baldwin has made it clear he feels the players were more at fault for this season's failures.

The Seahawks fired offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and offensive line coach Tom Cable on Wednesday.

"They were great human beings in the time that I got to know them. They were great people," Baldwin said of the coaches. "I really enjoyed my time with them and got to know them as human beings, as men, and they really helped me, myself, and Russell Wilson obviously in our development, so they're part of that, as well. You take a third-round quarterback who a lot in the media said was too short to play the position, a receiver who they said was too short to play the position -- undrafted, at that -- and we went out there and played some spectacular football for a stretch.

"So I give a lot of credit to Darrell Bevell and to Tom Cable for their work, their development of players that they had that was available to them. They did an extraordinary job, and I do think as Bevell was our offensive coordinator, we broke every record that the Seahawks had offensively, so there's a lot to be said for that."

After a down season for the Seahawks, Baldwin wants to see the players recommit themselves.

"There’s a lot of things, but I think it all trickles down from us as building our culture and our environment in the locker room and in this building, obviously, this facility,” he said. “It starts with the top. [Coach Pete Carroll] has done a tremendous job in the past of preaching his philosophy and what he wants in the culture and the environment, and us as players, we’ve just got to go back to that, we’ve got to go back to the basics and really buy in again, because the formula is there; obviously, it’s there. We’ve been a very successful team the past six years, the past seven years. We’ve been to the playoffs consecutively, so the formula is still there. It’s just going back to the basics.

“I know a lot of people want to blow this up, make it bigger than what it is, but we’re not going to panic as players. We know the formula, we know what we have ahead of us, and we’re just going to go out there and do it.”

The Seattle Seahawks have decided to part ways with offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, according to sources.

Bevell spent seven seasons with the Seahawks. Seattle missed the playoffs for the first time since Bevell’s first season (2011).

Russell Wilson led the NFL in touchdown passes, but the offense was inconsistent all season.

The NFL has five teams ranking in the top-10 in DVOA on both Offense and Defense at the end of the regular season in the Vikings, Rams, Saints, Steelers and Eagles.

The Chiefs, Cowboys, Chargers, Falcons and Patriots also rank in the top-10 on offense, while the Jaguars, Broncos, Panthers, Ravens and Cardinals rank in the top-10 on defense.