Five years ago, when the world was shut down by a pandemic and the NFL offseason was particularly quiet, we decided here at Seahawks.com to undertake the fun but rather unimportant task of choosing the best player in team history to wear every jersey number. And now, with the Seahawks celebrating their 50^th season in franchise history, we've decided to refresh that list. Most of the numbers haven't changed, but several have with players like Devon Witherspoon, Jaxon Smith Njigba, DK Metcalf, Geno Smith and Quandre Diggs replacing Seahawks Legends who were on the list five years earlier.

Earlier this offseason, the Seahawks named the Top 50 Players in franchise history, and as one might expect, those players all made this list as well, with the exception of a couple of number that were worn by multiple Top 50 players like 72 (Joe Nash and Michael Bennett) and 89 (Doug Baldwin and Brian Blades).

So far we've covered numbers 1-20 and 21-40 on this far-from-definitive list, and today we look at numbers 41-60. Check back Thursday for numbers 61-80.

41: S Eugene Robinson, 1985-1995

Robinson started 152 games in 11 seasons with the Seahawks, recording 984 tackles, a total that stood as the franchise record until it was broken by Bobby Wagner. A Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, Robinson also ranks No. 2 in franchise history in career interceptions with 42, including 16 picks in his two Pro-Bowl seasons with the Seahawks from 1992-1993.

42: RB Chris Warren, 1990-1997

Warren sometimes gets overlooked in the discussion of great Seahawks running backs because he didn't play on successful of teams like Marshawn Lynch, Shaun Alexander and Curt Warner did in their career, but Warren's Seahawks career was outstanding even if the team never made the playoffs during his eight seasons. Warren, a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, was a three-time Pro-Bowler, rushed for 6,706 yards, the second most in team history, and had four straight 1,000-yard seasons from 1992-1995, including 1,545 yards in 1994.

43: FB Jim Jodat, 1980-1981

Jodat played only two seasons in Seattle, but his 632 rushing yards and six total touchdowns in 1980 push him just ahead of Leonard Weaver and Randall Morris at a number without a lot of history in Seattle.

44: S John Harris, 1978-1985

Harris piled up 41 interceptions in his eight seasons with the Seahawks, including 10 in 1981, a single-season franchise record that would later be matched Kenny Easley. A seventh-round pick in 1978, Harriss was probably not as highly regarded as he should have been because he spent most of his career playing next to a Hall of Famer. A Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, Harris started 112 games in his eight seasons in Seattle before finishing his career with the Vikings.

45: S Kenny Easley, 1981-1987

Seeing as Easley's number is retired by the Seahawks and he is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, this one's a no-brainer. Easley's career was cut short due to kidney disease, but "The Enforcer" was a dominant player in the 80s on some of the best teams in the franchise's early history. Easley was a three-time first-team All-Pro and five-time Pro-Bowler, and earned Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1984 when he had 10 interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns. Easley is a member of the pro Football Hall of Fame, the Seahawks Ring of Honor and was a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection.

46: RB David Hughes, 1981-1985

Hughes was a backup running back/fullback for five seasons in Seattle, rushing for a career-best 327 yards in 1984, which is enough to make this list at a number worn by a handful of players in team history.

47: RB Sherman Smith, 1976-1982

A member of Seattle's first draft class, Smith rushed for 3,429 yards and 28 touchdowns in seven seasons with the Seahawks, including three straight seasons with more than 750 yards from 1977-1979. Smith returned to the Seahawks as the team's running backs coach under Pete Carroll and won a Super Bowl ring with the team that drafted him 37 years earlier.

48: LB Tyrice Knight, 2024-present

2020 pick: TE Jacob Hollister

Keith Simpson would have been the pick here had he stuck with 48 beyond his rookie season, but a number change after that year leaves 48 to be claimed by Knight after just one season in the NFL. Knight, who stepped into a starting role midway through the season, recorded 88 tackles, 1.5 sacks, three tackles for loss and a fumble recovery as a rookie and is expected to be a key piece of Seattle's defense in 2025. While the number 48 doesn't have a rich history for the franchise when it comes to players wearing that number, it's very significant when converted to roman numerals: XLVIII.

49: LS Clint Gresham, 2010-2015

Gresham served as the team's long snapper for six seasons, appearing in 96 games for some of the best teams in franchise history. A Super Bowl champion, Gresham appeared in 12 playoff games during his career.

50: LB K.J. Wright, 2011-2020

In another decade, Wright might have been a bigger star, but on a defense so loaded with talent, he was at times overshadowed by the likes of Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor. But Wright's coaches and teammates never doubted Wright's importance to the team as a versatile, playmaking linebacker who played a big role in the most successful era in franchise history. With 941 tackles, Wright, a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, ranks third all time in franchise history behind Wagner and Eugene Robinson.

51: LB Lofa Tatupu, 2005-2010

A second-round pick in 2005, Tatupu made the Pro Bowl in each of his first three seasons, including as a rookie when he was part of Seattle's first Super Bowl team. Tatupu, a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, was a first-team All-Pro in 2007 when he had 109 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, four interceptions, three forced fumbles and 10 passes defensed.

52: G/C Kevin Mawae, 1994-1997

Yes, the best years of Mawae's Hall of Fame career came after he left Seattle, but the second-round pick out of LSU was still awfully good in his four seasons as a Seahawk. Mawae began his career as a right guard, starting 11 games in a rookie season that saw him earn All-Rookie Team honors from the Pro Football Writers Association. After two seasons at guard, Mawae moved to center, the position he would play for 14 seasons, earning Pro-Bowl honors eight times as a member of the Jets and Titans.

53: LB Keith Butler, 1978-1987

Malcolm Smith was part of two of the most famous plays in franchise history—intercepting the Colin Kaepernick pass that Richard Sherman tipped at the end of the 2013 NFC championship game, and returning an interception for a touchdown to help earn Super Bowl MVP honors two weeks later—but Butler is the linebacker who had the best Seahawks career in No. 53. An accomplished NFL coach—Butler spent 23 seasons as an NFL assistant, including seven seasons as the Steelers' defensive coordinator—Butler was also a heck of a player in his day, starting 132 games for the Seahawks over 10 seasons. Butler, a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, finished his career as the team's all-time leading tackler with 813, a total since surpassed by Bobby Wagner, Eugene Robinson and K.J. Wright.

54: LB Bobby Wagner, 2012-2021, 2023

A strong case can be made that Wagner is the greatest player in franchise history given the body of work he put together in his 11 seasons in Seattle. A second-round pick out of Utah State in 2012, Wagner helped anchor an all-time great defense, one that helped the Seahawks win their first Super Bowl title in franchise history, and he was a key member of nine teams that made the postseason. Wagner's six first-team All-Pro selections and nine Pro-Bowl selections both rank first in franchise history, and his 1,566 tackles are a franchise record by a wide margin. Wagner also made a big impact off the field, as is evident in him being one of six players in franchise history to be the team's nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award multiple times, and he was also a two-time winner of the team's prestigious Steve Largent Award.

55: LB Michael Jackson, 1979-1986

A Pasco native and Rose Bowl champion at the University of Washington, Jackson stayed in state for his NFL career as a third-round pick of the Seahawks in 1979. Jackson started 78 games over eight seasons, and definitely established himself as the most famous Michael Jackson to come out of the 1980s. OK, maybe not that last part.

56: DE Cliff Avril, 2013-2017

Leroy Hill had a strong career with the Seahawks, starting 89 games over eight seasons, but Avril is the choice here for what he meant to two Super Bowl teams. Avril and Michael Bennett signed with the Seahawks on consecutive days in March of 2013, and were two of the best free agent signings in team history considering the way they contributed to a Super Bowl winning defense that was one of the best in league history. Avril recorded 34.5 sacks and 14 forced fumbles in five seasons in Seattle before a neck injury ended his career four games into the 2017 season. Avril, a Seahawks Top 50 Players selection, also had 6.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in Seahawks postseason games, and applied the pressure and quarterback hit that led to the errant Peyton Manning throw that Malcolm Smith intercepted and returned for a touchdown.

57: DE/LB Tony Woods, 1987-1992

David Hawthorne's had a solid three-year run as a starter in Seattle, but Woods is the call for his six-year run in Seattle that included 79 starts. Woods twice eclipsed the 100-tackle mark in Seattle, including a 1988 season in which he recorded 141 tackles, and he also added 16.0 sacks and six fumble recoveries.

58: LB Bruce Scholtz, 1982-1988

Linebacker Terry Beason set a franchise record—later broken by Wagner—with 153 tackles in 1978, but Scholtz is the pick at No. 58 for a career that saw him start 95 games in a Seahawks uniform, including all 32 games as the Seahawks made the playoffs in consecutive seasons in 1983 and 1984, the first postseason berths in franchise history.

59: C Blair Bush, 1983-1988

A tough choice between longevity vs. peak performance, but we'll give the slight edge to Bush, a six-year starter during a stretch when Seattle made the playoffs four times, over Julian Peterson who recorded 19.5 sacks and went to two Pro Bowls in his two seasons wearing this number—he switched to 98 for his third and final season in Seattle.

60: C Max Unger 2009-2014

The Seahawks traded away their second-round pick in 2009 for a 2010 first-rounder they'd later use on Earl Thomas—that worked out pretty well—but later that day they made a trade to move back into the second so they could select Unger. That trade gave the Seahawks one of the best centers in franchise history and a player who would earn a spot on the Seahawks Top 50 Players. Unger, who started 67 games in his six seasons with Seattle, earned first-team All-Pro honors in 2012 and Pro-Bowl honors three times while paving the way for some of Marshawn Lynch's best seasons, and he was the starting center on two Super Bowl teams.