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ALCORN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NFL CHANCES WITH SEATTLE (with audio)
By John Axtell
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:30:51 AM

Former Chadron High star Zac Alcorn is optimistic the fourth time will be the charm for his professional football career.

The one-time CSC football and basketball player who became an NAIA All-American tight end at Black Hills State signed in the offseason with the Seattle Seahawks after spending 2006 with Green Bay and splitting last season with the practice squads of Kansas City and San Francisco.

Alcorn says Seattle would have been his first choice of teams coming out of college, and he thinks the Seahawks are a good fit for him...even though he knows little about them yet.

Alcorn joined the Packers as an undrafted free agent, spending the first half of the 2006 season on the practice squad before being activated for the last 6 games.

He was a training camp cut last season, then went to the 49ers practice squad before spending the final few weeks on the Chief's practice squad.

Alcorn thinks his chances of making the regular roster are better with Seattle than they were with either San Francisco or Kansas City because the Seahawks run the same offense he learned in Green Bay

Alcorn will spend the summer in Seattle while his young family remains in Chadron...where both he and his wife grew up and where their families still live. He admits he'll miss them, but needs to be in Seattle for his best chance of making it.

Staying there will also give Alcorn more opportunities to work with Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselback, whom he has always respected for his talent and poise on and off the field.