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RENTON Every chance he got, Jarran Reed reminded his head coach, his coordinator, even his general manager.

“Frank Clark,” Reed said when he passed Pete Carroll in the hallway of Seahawks headquarters the last week and a half.

“Frank Clark,” Seattle’s defensive tackle would say upon seeing defensive coordinator Clint Hurtt, before he’d said “hi.”

“Frank Clark,” Reed said whenever he ran into GM John Schneider.

Reed admits it was all-out lobbying to bring Clark, his good friend and former defensive linemate, back to the Seahawks. It intensified Oct. 14 when Denver released Clark after he played two games for the Broncos.

It became incessant early this week. Seattle lost top pass rusher Uchenna Nwosu to season-ending surgery on his pectoral muscle last weekend during the team’s win over Arizona.

“Of course I did. I put the bug in,” Reed said Wednesday.

“I just put it out there — and kept going with the guys we had. Then when we lost ‘Chenna, that was kind of extra with it. Like, ‘Hey, we REALLY need…”

Reed chuckled. He stopped short of saying he issued an ultimatum to his coaches and GM to sign Clark.

“’If we can,’” Reed amended.

“I was going to keep sayin’ it.”

It worked. Clark is coming back to the Seahawks.

The team that drafted Clark when few would, in 2015 as its first pick in that draft, is signing back the 30-year-old edge rusher to back-fill for the loss of Nwosu. Clark was on his way to Seattle Wednesday. The three-time Pro Bowl and Super Bowl-champion defensive end with the Kansas City Chiefs after he left the Seahawks in 2019 will take a physical exam upon his arrival. Then he sign a Seahawks contract for the remainder of this season.

“I’m pretty sure he’s going to be excited to get here,” Reed said.

“We’ve been on the phone nonstop pretty much since it happened.

“I just got done talking to him.”