RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks have given former Denver Nuggets guard and one-time college football player Nate Robinson a tryout.
The Seahawks confirmed that Robinson went through a tryout on Monday, first reported by The Washington Post. earlier this spring a desire to play football again.
“If you ask people around here, they all know, ‘Nate Robinson, his best sport is football,’” Robinson said in the video. “And people tell me all the time, ‘if anybody can go do it, go play football, itap you.’”
Robinson gave up his chance at football after his freshman year at Washington, where he was a standout defensive back. Robinson appeared in 13 games in 2002 as a true freshman and had two interceptions. He gave up his football career the following spring to focus on basketball and became a first-round pick in 2005.
Robinson, an 11-year NBA veteran, played 77 games across two seasons (2013-2015) in Denver, averaging 8.4 points and 2.5 assists in 17.3 minutes per game for the Nuggets.
He played for eight NBA teams in his career and was a three-time winner of the slam dunk competition.
The Denver Post contributed to this report.
