2022 Seahawks Mock Draft: Trade 2 Many 2 Fast 2 Furious

If it’s NFL draft season, and I say “JOHN—”, your line is “SCHNEIDER!” and if I shout “COMMERCE –”, you should answer “DOWN! This is the way of things on 12 Seahawks Way, which I am happy to report is do not the actual address of the V-Mac in Renton, because that would be corny. Trust me. Don’t look for it.

Ah, but something smells different in the air this spring. For one thing, the Seahawks actually have a top 10 finish, which was a lot sucker to win him than he’ll use it. There are two* schools of thought on how JS should proceed, armed with more interim capital than it has had since 2010.

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There is the Draft at 9 crowd, with which I sympathize. It stings to watch the Seahawks watch helplessly as their rivals get the first chance to take on the scariest and most accomplished athletes college football has to offer. Maybe it’s our turn to catch a Bosa brother, right?

There’s the Maybe Drop A Little camp, which I sympathize with as well. Wouldn’t it be cool to still reap the benefits of a lost season by picking at 14, while adding another selection in the sixties, Schneider’s sweet spot? It would. It really would be. Nothing wrong with that, at all.

And then…and then there’s this mental exercise, which, as the one course of action fans and analysts have dismissed, should be considered. Because the Seahawks. And that is the Trade Down Forever scenario. Exchange down: maximum speed. Ye Olde Trade Downe Mocke Drafte.

There are many ways to manifest. Maybe the FO has their eye on two particular QBs, but they’re both disappearing in the top 8. Maybe Malik Willis is still on the board and another team is offering the Seahawks a deal. that they can’t, and their interest in him has been feigned from the start. Perhaps PCJS has decided that after just three picks in 2021, an infusion of youth is overdue. Or they perceive the second round to be richer in value than the first. Anyway, I’ll take a look at what it looks like if 1.9 turns into 1.30, which will look familiar.

After all these years of skipping the top half of the first round, our appetites are supernaturally whetted for a flashy pick, and the throwback would look more like the same, womp womp. But do you trust the Seahawks more with 1.9 and a pair of 2s, or with a first down, five seconds and bonus bonuses next year? I have to say this is the last one, and you can get there without stretching the credulity. What better insurance against a first-round bust than a top foursome in the Wagner-Taylor-Tate-Metcalf zone? Or a quintuple, even.

And the beauty of dropping a dozen points is that the Seahawks have, to say the least, a number of holes, especially in the trenches. Any good rebuild should involve equal amounts of luck and accumulation of linemen, on both sides of the ball.

So let the unpredictably aggressive trading begin.

6:02 p.m. Pacific: SEA sends 1.9 to NO for 1.16, 2.49 and a 6th 2023

Jordan Davis is still on the board and the Saints like him enough to overpay a bit in draft value.

6:41 p.m. Pacific: SEA sends 1.16 and 3.72 to the PIT for 1.20, 2.52 and 6.208

It’s a complex business, but the math works. Sam Howell sits right there and the Steelers pounce. The Seahawks fell four spots on Thursday in exchange for a 20-seat advance on Friday. Say like that, it’s pretty cool. Pittsburgh sweetens the deal with a sixth when Schneider hesitates (strategically) on the phone.

At this point, the Seahawks hold a 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 hand. Pete Carroll and crew aren’t done.

7:09 p.m. Pacific: SEA sends 1.20 and 5.153 to KC for 1.29 and 2.62

Another trade that slightly benefits the Seahawks on the draft value chart. The Chiefs have 12 picks, including back-to-back at the bottom of the first, so it makes sense that they would progress with one of them. At 20, they covet WR Jameson Williams and aren’t scared off by his recent ACL injury. And now the Seahawks have:

1.29

2.40

2.41

2.49

2.52

2.62

3.84

4.109

Holy shit, those are the ingredients for a REAL rebuild. You don’t even have to tap on every pick. But pretty soon, looking at the rest of the rounds, I’m going to send 2.40 to the Colts for 2.43 and 5.159., to get back the fifth that those mean Chiefs demanded earlier.

Let’s infuse the roster with cheap talent. To finish.

With the 29th pick in the draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: Logan Hall, DL, Houston

Year: Junior

Measurable: 6 feet 6 inches, 282 pounds

Key stat: 13 TFLs plus six sacks

Is there anything more important to a defense in the modern NFL than an inside pass rush? Maybe a containment corner. Mayyybe. Speaking of –

With the 41st pick in the draft: Seattle Seahawks select: Roger McCreary, CB, Auburn

Year: Senior

Measurable: 5-11, 190

Key stat: Led the SEC in pass breakups (14)

McCreary would historically be too short for Carroll, except look at the recently acquired Tre Brown, Sidney Jones and DJ Reed: all six feet tall or less, all under 200 pounds, all with arms shorter than 32.”

(Pete Carroll is so adamant that he went from run-first to pass-first, changed his defense from 4-3 to 3-4, and completely redesigned his outside corner type.)

With McCreary facing Brown, the outside corner is resolved for the immediate future.

With the 43rd pick in the draft, Seattle Seahawks select: David Ojabo, EDGE, Michigan

Year: Junior

Measurable: 6-4, 250

Key stat: Torn Achilles tendon on pro day in March

Ojabo is the pick you would make if you wanted a first-round talent and had enough job security to wait a year for that talent to see the field. I must feel bad for the guy, to see a decade of dedication undone in a non-contact event a month before the draft. It’s horrible. Unless he drops in Seattle and plays with a chip on his shoulder. Then it’s less awful, on a superficial level, our level.

11 sacks, 12 TFL three passes defended and five forced fumbles for Ojabo last year. It’s manufacturing. And I think the last decade has established that the Seahawks are not afraid to select players with a significant injury history.

With the 49th pick in the draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: Nicholas Petit-Frère, OT, ohio state

Year: Junior

Measurable: 6-5, 316

Key Stat: First team consisting of only Big Ten.

The French name translates to “little brother”, which is how he plans to treat Nick Bosa. Ultimately.

With the 52nd pick in the draft, Seattle Seahawks select: Daniel Faalele, OT, Minnesota

Year: Senior

Measurable: 6-8, 384

Key stat: find a row

Faalele’s size comes with its own set of questions, regarding leverage and lateral agility. However, this is not a project; more than one experience. huge. Remember bigger stronger faster stronger? Faalele covered the first two.

It would be called a shrewd pick by some and a reach by others. Well, we’ve never heard that before.

With the 62nd pick in the draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: Isaiah Spiller, RB, our Lady.

Year: Junior

Measurable: 6-0, 217

Key stat: 74 receptions in three years, so possible return three times

A running back in second? What is 2013? No, it’s the Seahawks. Pete literally can’t believe Spiller is still on the board and submits the pick in less time than it takes him to take off his shirt. The first person to say CJ Prosise is banned until the draft.

With the 84th pick in the draft, Seattle Seahawks select: Abraham Lucas, OT washington state

Year: Senior

Measurable: 6-6, 315

Key Stat: Best 20 meter shuttle in 4.4 seconds

Lucas immediately enters the tackle competition and could also become a guard on the road, which is always valuable. Four-year starter at Wazoo with 42 starts, local guy, from Everett and stayed in state. Keep it at home.

With the 109th pick in the draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: Carson Strong, QB, Nevada

Year: SR

Measurable: 62-226

Key Stat: 70.1 percent completion

While a QB room of Geno Smith, Drew Lock, Carson Strong and Jacob Eason won’t have anyone picking Seattle to win the NFC West, remember this whole draft is based on going down to own the second round. . This only happens if the Seahawks perceive that their QB options at 1.9, 1.16 and 1.20 do not meet a threshold value.

What I’m saying is, of course, they didn’t select a QB until 109, either they lost their guy, or they saw more value in another position, or they’re waiting to move the next year.

(Carson, by the way, comes from the conference that has put Colin Kaepernick, Derek Carr, Josh Allen and Jordan Love in the league since 2011. As mentioned, he completed 70.1% of his passes, with a TD ratio /INT of 27-4. There’s plenty to like.)

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You can guess the rest. An LB, a DB draft, an under-the-radar wide receiver who can contribute to special teams right away, then of course a kicker in the seventh as a prelude to Jason Myers’ cut. All very normal stuff.

The final line, in graphic form:

Not lost on anyone with a google machine: in 2023, the Seahawks are already armed with two first and two second. Any blockbuster deal – a la Percy Harvin or Jamal Adams – that Schneider wants to engineer, he can. All the machinations he wants to start in order to go up for the QB he wants Next year the day of the draft, he can.

If I tried to make another run before my contract expired in 2025, and I had just dumped a franchise QB in his prime (I still haven’t forgiven anyone involved in that debacle), and I had the assurance that I would get two of the full seasons to show results the first thing I would want to do is get flush with the youngsters, an ongoing capital draft and a space cap .

With a bit of a trade Thursday, the 2022-23 Seahawks are set for just that. Now they just have to enjoy it, and maybe also get a little lucky. It wouldn’t hurt.