When people say “the preseason means nothing,” they don’t really mean that. What they’re trying to say is that a 3-0 preseason record does not mean a team will be a juggernaut, or that a 160-yard receiving performance does not guarantee someone a roster spot.

Because the preseason undoubtedly does mean quite a bit for more than a few career decisions. Like, for example, all of us watching the absence of Marquez Valdes-Scantling for much of this summer. Whether he was not practicing, or simply not getting open, preseason highlights and discussions contained a plethora of Seattle Seahawks names, but MVS was not among them. To many, that signified that Valdes-Scantling’s time in Seattle may be in jeopardy.

It appears that Valdes-Scantling himself had other inclinations.

“It definitely wasn

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