Branch had spent the last two seasons anchoring the interior of the Seahawks' defensive line alongside Brandon Mebane but Seattle elected to let him walk in free agency and turned their focus toward McDaniel.
"He's a big man, he takes up a lot of space, he's tall,Cheap Nike Air Max Wholesale, he can reach, he can get right in the way of a quarterback's throwing lanes and all that," Seattle coach Pete Carroll said of McDaniel. "I think that he's going to be a nice addition and he's just going to continue to get better and he is just learning from what we expect from him."