With the draft just a week away, who are you hoping we snag in the first round? Let's hear your top 3 first round picks for the Seahawks and why you think they'd make a great addition to our squad! 🏈
For me, here's my favorite picks.
Cooper Dejean – This guy's versatility in the defensive backfield is insane. He's got great instincts and can really shake up our pass defense alongside Woolen and Witherspoon.
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Troy Fautanu – I'm all in on beefing up our offensive line, and Troy could be a powerhouse. His strength and agility could really help protect our QB and open up the run game.
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Jared Verse – His energy and his ability to disrupt the backfield could really amp up our defense and give us that edge we've been missing.
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A ~~2nd and two 3rd~~ late 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round pick.
But for real, I like Fautanu for the multiple position value at Guard and Tackle. He’d be a good security blanket in case Abe Lucas’s injury is more serious than we think.
EDIT: Apparently, I thought the value of 16 was much less than it actually is.
1. Laiatu Latu
2. Byron Murphy
3. Jared Verse
Those are the three names that are the most realistic for us. Troy Fautanu will be taken much earlier.
Aaron Curry and if he doesn’t make it to us, trade back to late R1 for Maurice Jones Drew
Fautanu, Latu, Newton, or trade back
Troy Fautanu, Johnny Newton, Jared Verse
Brock Bowers.
ANYBODY WITH A BIG HONKIN’ FAT BOOTY.
for real though we need some big fellas on both side of the ball. both to stuff run plays and block FOR run plays.
Murphy
Dejean
Fautanu
Fautanu or Fuaga if they fall to us. If they’re gone, maybe Verse, otherwise trade back.
Whatever the most boring pick is, so Fautanu. Also, Lockett needs a real estate nerd to talk to, so Fautanu.
The more you look at the ideas here, the more you gotta realize how many different ways they suggest what a new offense and defense might look like. How could any pick john makes not be part of months of fun speculation to come – after years of predictability, I’d forgotten how exciting this could be.
I would want some O-Line or D-Line help. I think there are gonna be some decent players for other other needs in the later rounds.
I’d jump up and down for at 16:
Fuaga
Fatanu
Someone in the top 10 who inexplicably fell like a Turner or Alt
I would be sitting but still high five my friends at 16:
Murphy
Verse
Latu
Bowers (luxury pick)
I’d be unhappy to pick at 16 because 81 is so far, and I’d argue they should have traded back for another pick:
Everyone else
I’d rage quit and throw my TV remote:
Penix or Nix
Fautanu, Murphy, Newton. Bowers if he makes it past the jets.
Ideal situation would be a falling qb and we can trade back 4ish spots and still get one of the above.
Don’t want to trade back past mid 20s without a kings ransom.
Fautanu, Fuaga, or Murphy. If none of them are there, trade down and hope for Graham Barton or Chop Robinson.
Fautanu, Dejean, Mims, Murphy, trade back.
Williams or Daniels. Won’t be there at 16 but I’d be fucking fired up.
Harrison, Odunze or Nabers. Ditto. I’d geek the fuck out.
Brock Bowers. Think he’d be a great weapon for Grubb, sure he has his flaws but in the right system he’s gonna be a fucking star.
Latham, Alt, Fautanu, Fuaga, Mims. Lucas and Cross are solid tackles but haven’t been lighting the world on fire. If any of these guys are here stick and pick.
Jared Verse or Chop Robinson. High ceiling pass rushers, who needs those, right?
Byron Murphy. Interior pass rush, that’s kinda important.
Quinyon Mitchell/Terrion Arnold. Only one corner under contract after this year and the non-Spoon guys we have are more solid than all pro.
Cooper DeJean. Think he could be a weapon in the backfired, turnover central.
17 names and we pick 16th…I’d rather take any of those guys than trade down and get an extra third.
Troy has been the UW starting LT for a few years and ran 5 sec 40. He would move inside and play guard. He’s a stud and would solidify the line on offense.
I’ll be happy with any OL as our first pick
Fautanu (or any of the blue chip tackles with G-T flexibility for that matter), DeJean, Murphy, or trade down. I’m more keyed in on the linebackers and safeties in rounds 2-5 but we could always use more beef up front and I think DeJean could be a generational safety with scheme versatility
Robert Turbin, final answer.
Totally agree on Fautanu and DeJean. As for Jared Verse, I’m a little shy about taking an EDGE with #16. I’d be much more open to doing it with a pick in the 20’s.
However, I get it. The positional value, and of course, the talent of the likes of Turner, Verse and Latu being pushed to 16 by the QB’s, WR’s, and whoever else makes it into the top 15.
So who does MM want between those three? If we were gonna go edge in the first, it would be one of those three or Chop Robinson.
This take will be a singular look at height and weight regarding the first round EDGE guys. The average weight of a OLB across the Ravens and the Seahawks currently sits at 256 lbs, while the average height is 6’3 1/2. That is the average of the top 4 guys on each team, with the lightest being Van Noy at 244, the heaviest is Darryl Taylor at 267 lbs. The tallest is Odafe Oweh at 6’5 and the shortest is Nwosu at 6’2.
Verse is 6’4, 254 lbs with 33 1/2 inch arms. I believe he’s the strongest of the 4 potential rookies with 31 bench press reps. None of the others did the bench, and 31 is upper echelon for any EDGE ever so…I would take him over Turner and happily stick and pick at 16 so long as Fautanu wasn’t available.
Turner is 6’3, 247 lbs with 34 3/8 inch arms. While within range, he’s a little light. Could definitely add the weight without a problem if that was desired. He’s got the longest arms of any of these guys. I believe he’ll get drafted before 16, but I would be totally down to stick and pick him if he was there.
Latu is 6’5, 259 lbs with 32 5/8 inch arms. I think he’s a little tall with regard to the leverage battle, and he doesn’t possess massive arms to go along with the body length. The injury to his neck that UW trainers refused to let him play football because of is too concerning for me to take a guy in the first round. I’m a no to this guy, mostly because of the neck.
Robinson is 6’3, 254 lbs with 32 1/2 inch arms. I’d take him at the bottom of the first or top of the second depending on who else is there. Given the range that professionals put on the likes of Robinson, DeJean, Barton, Frazier, and Penix, it is of course, incredibly hard to say who will be available the further the draft goes. Obviously this isn’t unique to 2024 but I feel like that was a very incomplete list of the people with a big range.
Murphy, JPJ, DeJean are my personal top three. The latter two I think would be slight reaches at 16 so if they trad d back with like GB or Buffalo those would probably the guys they look at (I hope)
Homer pick because go beavs but Fuaga. No doubt in my mind he is a pro bowl level talent.
As a Longhorn fan Byron Murphy, would love to see him in Mike McDonalds system
DeJean, Byron Murphy, and Fautanu. Anyone else I’d be moderately disappointed, unless someone falls or we trade back.
Seahawks trades down in the first round to the mid twenties and drafts Troy Fautanu . He meets a need and will be highly recommended by his former coaches Grubb and Huff . With the extra picks they get from the trade they trade up to a high second and draft a defensive end that they really like .
Trade back for Jackson Powers-Johnson – Fautanu – Fuaga.
But if Bowers falls to 16, Bowers.
Troy Fautanu. Graham Barton, Byron Murphy, Johnny Newton, Jared Verse would be my top options. Trade down to 21 – 26 could still likely net you one of these.