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Rost: Seattle Seahawks’ best picks by round under Schneider and Carroll
Subsequent week, Seattle Seahawks normal supervisor John Schneider will enter the NFL draft with essentially the most capital he’s ever owned, starting with the fifth general choose.
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How have he and Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll fared prior to now? Listed below are greatest picks by the pair, by spherical:
1st spherical
Finest: Earl Thomas
Thomas was first-team All-Professional for 3 consecutive seasons (2012-2014) and was a seven-time Professional Bowler. He didn’t miss a single begin over his first six seasons, throughout which era he acted because the high-flying, sideline-to-sideline insurance coverage internet throughout the center of the most effective secondaries in NFL historical past. His vary is a part of what allowed Carroll’s Cowl-1 and Cowl-3 schemes within the Legion of Growth days to perform the best way it did.
Worst: DL L.J. Collier
Take a look at a few of the Seattle Seahawks’ extra dissappointing first-round picks and also you’ll see the clear dileanation in expertise between the highest half and backside half of the primary spherical. That’s to not say groups haven’t discovered elite gamers at choose No. 20 and past, however for the whole lot of the franchise’s historical past, larger first-round picks have tended to succeed in comparison with later ones. Three of Seattle’s 5 Corridor of Famers have been chosen within the high six (Cortez Kennedy, Kenny Easley, Walter Jones) and 4 have been picked within the high 20 (Steve Hutchinson, seventeenth general).
Seattle’s winningest period has additionally introduced later first-round picks (subsequent week’s fifth general choose is the best of Schneider’s profession). Nonetheless, you’d anticipate a participant chosen within the first-round to on the very least develop into a full-time, multi-year starter. Sadly for Seattle and L.J. Collier, it didn’t occur with the twenty ninth general pick of TCU.
Collier was a starter in only one season (2020) throughout which he recorded a career-high three sacks. He was inactive 14 occasions over the course of his tenure. Throughout these 4 years, there have been transient flashes of the participant Seattle had hoped to safe, however Collier couldn’t faucet into that constantly. Now in his fifth NFL season, he will get a second likelihood with the Arizona Cardinals. On a private word, followers may like to see him discover success – hopefully it by no means comes in opposition to Seattle, although.
2nd spherical
Finest: LB Bobby Wagner
The Seattle Seahawks have 5 Corridor of Famers proper now, however Wagner will finally add his title to that checklist.
Wagner is essentially the most adorned of Schneider’s draft picks. He’s a six-time first-team All-Professional and eight-time Professional Bowler, with 5 of these choices (first-team All-Professional and Professional Bowl, mixed) coming in consecutive seasons from 2016-2020 – a feat achieved solely by Wagner and Rams’ star Aaron Donald. He led the NFL in tackles twice (2016, 2019) and holds franchise information for profession solo tackles (819), profession tackles (1,383), tackles in a rookie season (140), and fumbles returned for touchdowns (3).
Now in his second stint with Seattle, Wagner’s bought an opportunity so as to add much more distance between himself and the remainder of the pack.
Honorable point out: WR DK Metcalf is a runner-up right here and may take the cake if this have been a rating of the final 5 years.
Worst: DT Malik McDowell
There are many candidates for “greatest” and “worst” in every spherical, however McDowell springs to thoughts to today for Seahawks followers involved a few participant’s purple flags.
McDowell was thought-about the most effective defensive linemen within the 2017 NFL Draft, however there have been reviews pre-dating his choice that aired considerations over poor interviews and points with work ethic. Nonetheless, the Seahawks have been swayed sufficient by his potential to pick him with the thirty fifth general choose, their first of the draft.
McDowell by no means performed a single down for the Seahawks. He was concerned in a critical ATV accident in July and was waived the next summer season.
third spherical
Finest: QB Russell Wilson
Wilson’s first season with Denver was a horror story, however he stays one of many single greatest draft picks of the Carroll period. With the seventy fifth general choose, the Hawks selected an undersized passer out of Wisconsin and located one thing no different crew of their division did for a decade: stability at quarterback.
Wilson is a nine-time Professional Bowler. He holds NFL information for many passing yards in a playoff recreation by a rookie (385) and most fourth-quarter landing passes in a season (16), in addition to quite a lot of franchise passing information, together with profession passer score (101.8) and profession dashing yards by a quarterback (4,689).
Worst: WR Amara Darboh
The later you get within the draft, the tougher it’s to quantify what makes a participant “the worst” when the expectations are decrease. However I’d say eight profession receptions and a single-season of play qualifies right here.
You have been hoping to see C.J. Prosise? I do know he was injury-prone, however he nonetheless had extra receptions in two seasons (!) than Darboh did for his complete profession.
It’s exhausting to categorise any participant as a bust when he’s a Day 3 choice, so the next are one of the best picks by spherical on the ultimate day:
4th spherical
Finest: LB Okay.J. Wright
A perrenial Professional Bowl snub! Wright earned the honors only one time in his profession (2016) however had a prolific profession in Seattle, enjoying for 10 seasons and racking up 941 tackles and 13.5 sacks. He was one a part of one of many league’s greatest linebacker duos and a celebrated chief within the locker room.
fifth spherical
Finest: CB Richard Sherman
You’re not anticipating to seek out All-Professional starters on Day 3, however that’s what Seattle discovered with a fifth-round pick of Stanford.
Sherman turned the face of the Legion of Growth and one of many league’s most recognizable personalities. He nonetheless holds franchise information for many passes defended in a season (24) and is fourth in profession interceptions (32).
Honorable point out: SS Kam Chancellor, CB Tariq Woolen
sixth spherical
Finest: CB Byron Maxwell
Let’s simply throw everybody from the Legion of Growth right here. The sixth spherical was the hardest for Seattle. Their greatest contributor of the previous few years has been working again Travis Homer, who was a particular groups stalwart. However Maxwell takes the lead spot for his contributions to Seattle’s greatest protection, together with as a starter throughout Seattle second journey to a Tremendous Bowl in as a few years (2014).
Honorable point out: CB Jeremy Lane, RB Travis Homer
seventh spherical
Finest: RB Chris Carson
Simply six gamers have been drafted later than Carson during the last decade in Seattle and none of them – go determine – contributed extra. He had a robust, bulldozing working fashion that might’ve been dreamt up by Carroll himself, and in 2018 turned the primary participant since Marshawn Lynch to hurry for 1,000 yards in a season – after which he did it once more in 2019.
Honorable point out: LB Malcolm Smith (you’ve gotta embody a Tremendous Bowl MVP right here), OG J.R. Sweezy
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