Seawolves Sign Former SaberCat Davy Coetzer to Fill 2026 Flyhalf Role
The Seattle Seawolves announced on Thursday morning that they had signed flyhalf Davy Coetzer to the team, bringing one of the now-folded SaberCats 10s to Seattle for 2026. Although his season was cut short by injury, the new Seawolf scored two tries, 18 conversions, and seven penalty goals (67 total points) over 530 minutes in nine games in 2025.
There had been speculation for months that Coetzer would end up in Seattle, with the team’s history of signing South Africans, the need for an elite flyhalf, and Coetzer’s Houston SaberCats closing up shop. Coetzer’s 7.4 meters per carry stand out as a testament to his speed, but where Seattle was really looking was in the accuracy with his boot, as he made 80.6 percent of his kicks in 2025 and 73.6 percent of his kicks over four seasons in MLR.
Coetzer, a 26-year-old South African, will not be domestic-eligible until 2027, but it is very likely that he will join the USA Eagles at that point. Still, for the 2026 season, that means that the Seawolves will have to use one of their seven gameday international slots for him each time the former South African U20 makes a matchday 23.