Richard Sherman consulting with Pete Carroll about the Seahawks’ young, new secondary

Richard Sherman likely sees a lot of his younger self in Tariq Woolen.

He’s telling Pete Carroll all about it this week.

For the second time in days, Sherman is talking with Carroll about what he’s seeing with the Seahawks’ young, changed secondary. Sherman and Carroll are meeting this week. Their talk will include the long, tall, Sherman-esque Woolen and fellow rookie Coby Bryant. The rookies are currently the team’s two starting cornerbacks.

The former Seahawks All-Pro and Super Bowl-winning cornerback was on the field for Seattle’s mock-game scrimmage at Lumen Field Saturday. The 34-year-old Sherman, now out of football after playing five games last season for Tampa Bay, spoke at length twice during pregame warmups with Carroll. The coach drafted Sherman into the NFL and made the former Stanford wide receiver a Seahawks superstar.

“I think Sherm is just curious. I think he’s just trying to keep up with it. It was really good to see him,” Carroll said following Seahawks training-camp practice Tuesday.

“And I’ll talk with him again this week.

“He got to watch our guys, and we have some stuff to talk about.”

In June Sherman signed to be an analyst on Amazon Prime Video’s new Thursday night NFL game telecasts. One of the games he will covering: the Seahawks against his also-former San Francisco 49ers on Dec. 15 at Lumen Field.

You don’t have to pay Jeff Bezos to watch Sherman and the game that night. The week 15 showcase game also will be shown on over-the-air stations in Seattle and San Francisco, per the league’s contract with Amazon.

Sherman is sure to have a few things to say on Thursday, Oct. 6, as well. That’s when Russell Wilson and his Denver Broncos host the Indianapolis Colts, also on Amazon Prime Video.

“It’s great seeing him go into the business that he’s going into. He’s going to be great,” Carroll said. “I think he’s just going to be phenomenal and he’s well-suited.

“He’ll have a lot to say.”

Sherman has kept his home in the Seattle are, as have Doug Baldwin, Cliff Avril, K.J. Wright and other former Seahawks from their back-to-back Super Bowl teams. Sherman lives in Maple Valley. Carroll has kept in consistent touch with him, talking to Sherman through him playing for the 49ers and Buccaneers, and through the former cornerback’s legal issues in King County over the last year.

Does Sherman talking to Carroll about this year’s Seahawks defense qualify him as a team consultant now?

“All of our guys are consultants. All of them are,” Carroll said. “I talk to everybody I can talk to.”

Woolen, the Seahawks’ fifth-round draft choice in April, is in Carroll’s Sherman prototype for a cornerback. He’s 6 feet 4 1/8 inches tall, an inch and an eighth taller than Sherman, with 33 5/8-inch arms (Sherman’s are 32 inches).

Woolen is faster than Sherman — faster than any player that tall the 70-year-old Carroll has ever seen. Woolen has run the 40-yard dash in 4.26 seconds.

Artie Burns became the third first-team cornerback to get hurt the last two weeks Tuesday. Burns injured his groin early in one-on-one drills against wide receivers early in practice. He had been the only cornerback to start in every one of the first 10 practices of camp.

Carroll didn’t immediately know how long Burns may be out.

Sidney Jones remains out indefinitely with a concussion he got in practice taking on a block last Wednesday. Carroll said Tuesday it will be a couple more days before the team knows more about the former University of Washington star’s progress.

Tre Brown remains on the physically-unable-to-perform list. He hasn’t practiced since knee surgery ended his rookie season in November. Carroll said Brown is “making progress” but that it will be “some time still” before the team’s second of three draft choices in 2021 joins practices.

Jones and Brown started last season for Seattle.

Backup cornerback John Reid is also out with a groin injury.

Amid all the hurt around them, Woolen and Bryant are prospering.

And Sherman is, yes, consulting.