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Here’s how many comp picks the Seahawks are projected to get in 2025 NFL Draft
With the Seattle Seahawks in their 2025 offseason, it is officially draft season! The Seahawks currently have six draft picks, including the 18th overall draft pick. However, due to the NFL Compensatory Draft formula, the Seahawks are projected to get three more draft picks to give them a grand total of nine picks for the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft.
The Compensatory Draft formula rewards NFL Teams who lost more unrestricted free agents then they gained in the prior offseason. It is important to note that street free agents (those whose contracts did not expire but are rather cut from an NFL Team) do not count in this formula. The draft picks awarded in this formula are spread between the 3rd and 7th rounds, with the higher rounds being awarded to teams who lost an unrestricted free agent of higher value (those signing for larger free agent deals). For example, last offseason, of the unrestricted free agents eligible in this formula, Kirk Cousins signed the largest deal with the Atlanta Falcons. So, the Minnesota Vikings (Cousins’ former team) will receive the highest compensatory pick in the 3rd round. The 31 next highest contracts signed will then be spread out between the rest of the 3rd and 7th rounds.
In addition to this free agent formula, the NFL will also award two third-round compensatory draft picks (one in consecutive years) to a team who had a minority coach or executive hired as a head coach or general manager for another NFL team, which is what the Detroit Lions will have after the New York Jets hired defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn. This piece is something to keep in mind for the 2026 NFL Draft, in case Lezlie Frazier ends up getting the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job.
With all of this, which rounds are the Seahawks new draft picks projected to be in? According to Over the Cap, the Seahawks are projected to earn an additional 4th round pick (for Damien Lewis signing with the Carolina Panthers), an additional 5th round pick (for Jordyn Brooks signing with the Miami Dolphins), and an additional 6th round pick (for Bobby Wagner signing with the Washington Commanders.)
Based on these projections, only the Baltimore Ravens and Dallas Cowboys got more compensatory draft picks than Seattle, both maxing out on four selections total (the NFL does not award more than four compensatory picks to a team per year). The Seahawks, as well as the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Chargers, and Cleveland Browns all received three extra selections.
Potentially getting three extra draft picks is huge for Seattle, as they have not been able to take advantage of this compensatory draft pick game in recent years. Since 2018, the Seahawks have only received three total compensatory picks, all of which came in the 2020 NFL Draft. Perhaps this extra draft capital will allow John Schneider to move up and down the board or add some reinforcements to the offensive line. Time will tell.
SEATTLE — Seattle police arrested a 40-year-old man after a stabbing in the University District on Monday morning that left another man wounded.
Officers were sent to the 5000 block of Brooklyn Avenue North just before 8 a.m. for a reported stabbing. Police arrived and found a 21-year-old man with stab wounds.
Officers provided aid until the Seattle Fire Department arrived and took over. The victim’s injuries were stated to be non-life-threatening
Police searched the area and located a suspect near Northeast 47th Street and University Way Northeast. The 40-year-old man was arrested and booked into the King County Jail.
(WSB file photo. No outdoor cap tosses this year!)
Tomorrow (Monday, June 1) brings not only a new month but also the first graduation ceremony of the season for West Seattle’s three biggest high schools. And all are graduating at new venues this year. Summit Atlas, which after nine years remains West Seattle’s only charter school, will graduate 55 seniors in a ceremony at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien at 6 pm Monday. West Seattle’s two major public high schools, Chief Sealth International HS and West Seattle HS, both have graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, June 17, at McCaw Hall (hosting graduations while Memorial Stadium is being rebuilt) – CSIHS at 5 pm, WSHS at 8 pm. The Seattle Public Schools webpage for graduation info also lists where and when ceremonies are planned for its alternative programs, some of which hold classes in West Seattle.
The Seattle Seahawks lost a key member of the front office to the Minnesota Vikings, as the NFC North team named Nolan Teasley its new general manager. The hire could change the fortunes of both teams in the immediate future.
Teasley will be taking over a Vikings team that isn’t far away from contending. One of the key reasons the team fired former GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wasn’t that he couldn’t build a collection of talent, but that he didn’t seem to understand how to get the best possible answer at the most important position in sports: Quarterback.
Vikings fans watched as former QB1 in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, signed with the Seahawks last offseason, and then followed that by helping lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. That was Seattle’s second title. Minnesota has never won a Super Bowl.
Minnesota Vikings hire Nolan Teasley from the Seattle Seahawks
Teasley, though, has the experience and, clearly, the ability to create an environment in which a team will thrive. He has been working with general manager John Schneider in Seattle since 2013, and has worked in scouting and been the director of pro personnel. He has most recently served as Schneider’s assistant GM.
Schneider could very well be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame one day after leading the Seahawks to two Super Bowl wins. Still, with teams with two completely different rosters and coaching staffs (Schneider is the only GM to ever do that), Teasley would have learned at the knee of one of the best to ever perform general manager duties.
Nolan Teasley could also be entering a situation where his new team is already poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Minnesota finished 9-8 last season despite the fact that its quarterback play was among the worst in the NFL. This offseason, the Vikings signed Kyler Murray.
Murray underwhelmed or was injured throughout his career with the Arizona Cardinals, as Seattle Seahawks fans know well due to their favorite team counting on two wins every season against the NFC West brethren, but under the wise direction of Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell, Murray could be coaxed into playing a much better form of football.
As the Minnesota Vikings play in the NFC, and could potentially be a difficult obstacle for the Seahawks to repeat as Super Bowl champions, Teasley is already in a good spot. The issue for Seattle is that Teasley is smart enough to make moves to get Minnesota even better well into the future. A great rivalry between Seattle and the Vikings might be about to start.
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