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A dream trade-up target for Seattle Seahawks in NFL Draft
To be clear, this is not a likely scenario.
But crazy things can happen in the NFL Draft. And in the countdown to next Thursday’s first round, this is a time for football fans to dream.
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With that as the backdrop, NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah‘s weekly appearance Wednesday on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk included a conversation about the top edge rushers in year’s draft class. And during that conversation, co-host Mike Salk posed a question: Is there any chance the Seattle Seahawks could trade up to get star Georgia edge rusher Jalon Walker?
Most mock drafts predict Walker to be selected by the Carolina Panthers with the No. 8 overall pick, so he’ll likely be off the board long before Seattle’s first-round pick at No. 18. But with 10 overall picks and five in the first three rounds, is there any way the Seahawks could use their extra draft capital to move up and snag Walker if he slips outside the the top 10?
“I wouldn’t totally punt on the Jalon thing,” Jeremiah said. “Put it this way: I’ve talked to teams in the 20s that say, ‘Do you think he gets to us?’ Like, so that tells me that there are teams out there that don’t view him (as a surefire top-10 pick).
“I mean, I do not envision it’s likely (that’s he’s available at 18). But he could be one of those deals where you’ve got some extra ammunition, so if he starts to drift in range, that would be a fun piece to add to the mix.”
In that scenario, Jeremiah said a trade up would be worth it – especially given the relatively tame cost of doing so.
“To move up a couple spots, you can dump a fourth-round pick,” Jeremiah said. “In this draft, you’re not gonna be a missing a ton there.”
The scoop on Walker
With explosive athleticism and a 6-foot-1, 243-pound frame, Walker played both on the edge and at linebacker for Georgia. He racked up 6.5 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss this past season – including three sacks and three tackles for loss in a spectacular performance against Texas – en route to winning the Butkus Award as the nation’s top linebacker.
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Walker is widely considered the second-best edge rusher in this year’s draft behind likely top-three pick Abdul Carter from Penn State. But with his linebacking experience, he also brings plenty of versatility for modern defensive schemes that emphasize positional flexibility.
“He’s an undersized guy who plays off the ball and on the ball, so they move him around,” Jeremiah said. “He wins from a lot of different entry points with how they blitz him and rush him. But off the edge, he is ultra-explosive. … He’s a big-time fastball off the edge who jolts guys. He dominated the Texas game. He just took the game over.
“You can play him off the ball and spy him and he just sucks people up on the perimeter. (Texas quarterback) Arch Manning in that game tried to escape – Arch can really run – (and Walker) sucked him up, easy. … I think he is a really, really fun chess piece in a league that’s kind of trending toward some position-less, amoeba-type stuff to keep people guessing. This guy’s a chess piece.”
The Seahawks currently have a solid core of edge rushers in Uchenna Nwosu, Boye Mafe, Derick Hall and free-agent signee DeMarcus Lawrence. But with Nwosu and Lawrence both coming off injury-plagued seasons, Seattle certainly could look to add more firepower to the group.
And if somehow, some way, the Seahawks turned that dream into a reality? Jeremiah, a former NFL scout, summed it up succintly.
“He’s different,” Jeremiah said. “He’s a different cat.”
Listen to the full conversation with NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah at this link or in the audio player near the top of this story. Tune in to Brock and Salk weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
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Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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FIFE, Wash. – A portion of southbound I-5 will be closed overnight in Fife Friday and Saturday night, according to WSDOT.
The Washington State Department of Transportation says the purpose of the closure is to install a new electronic sign and will need two nights to do it.
Crews will close southbound I-5 from 54th Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road starting at 11 p.m. Friday night until 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Closures will resume Saturday night starting at 11 p.m. as well, and lanes will reopen Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m.
WSDOT says the closure will include the 54th Avenue ramps to southbound I-5.
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