The Seattle Seahawks have the projected third-most draft capital within the NFL over the subsequent two years.
Accompanying that come a number of wants, together with offensive line. I assume they’ll attempt to draft one.
They’re simply not good at it.
Since 2014, when the Seattle draft magic immediately wore off, maybe no place has been as massive a miss because the offensive line.
Is Brett Veach’s (Chiefs school personnel analyst, director of personnel, GM since 2013) secret tremendous energy evaluating offensive linemen? pic.twitter.com/JLrFrKzNG1
— Timo Riske (@PFF_Moo) April 5, 2022
In reality, the Seahawks are one among solely six groups to by no means draft an “A” caliber lineman. the Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants be a part of Seattle in by no means discovering an OL participant ranked within the prime 10% at their place. The Incompetent O’Briens Houston Texans are a lot worse than even these groups it’s comical.
Had Seattle taken Middle Creed Humphrey in final 12 months’s draft at 56, they’d have a kind of cool inexperienced dots approach over to the proper. Humphrey was PFF’s highest-graded heart final 12 months.
Russell Wilson aired his grievances about being hit an excessive amount of within the 2020 offseason, and the firestorm that adopted didn’t go the way in which he had hoped. Half 1 of that’s the recognized and confirmed amount of Wilson holding the ball too typically. However Half 2 – what an individual may moderately assume he meant – is that the Seahawks are actual unhealthy at drafting linemen, and have solely Duane Brown to definitively grasp their hat on as successfully-acquired expertise in recent times.
I’ve heard Charles Cross, Ikem Ekwonu, Trevor Penning, and Abraham Lucas as a few of the probably targets for John Schneider to draft this 12 months. Naturally the skeptic in me assumes they’ll take anyone at #40 that makes the announcers rapidly verify their sheets for the fourth-round names.
Since virtually every thing is open to the workforce this 12 months, it’s unattainable to say what they’re going to do, which is extra fascinating than drafts we’ve had in a very long time. I’ve a tough time seeing them undergo the primary three picks with out taking a deal with or heart, with fingers crossed very laborious that it’s the Chosen One to interrupt the Seahawks curse this time.
