Rob Rang is an NFL Draft analyst for FOX Sports and is returning for his fifth year of contributing to Seahawks.com’s draft coverage. He began covering the NFL draft in 2000, with work published at FOX, Sports Illustrated, CBSSports.com, USA Today, Yahoo, NFL.com and NFLDraftScout.com, among others. He also works as a scout with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.
Rang’s opinions and evaluations are his own and do not reflect those of the Seahawks. Follow him on Twitter @RobRang.
Winning the Super Bowl is the greatest achievement in professional football but for some, the glory was diminished with the sobering realization that a few players and coaches wouldn’t be returning next season.
One can hardly fault Klint Kubiak for following in his father’s footsteps, giving up his role as Seattle’s offensive coordinator to become an NFL head coach.
While Kubiak was only in Seattle for one year before becoming the head coach of the Raiders, that was not the case for free agent defections Coby Bryant, Boye Mafe, Kenneth Walker III, Riq Woolen and Dareke Young, a handful of fan favorites from the famed 2022 draft class that ranks among the best in franchise history.
As the only general manager in NFL history to build two completely different Super Bowl champion rosters, 2025 NFL Executive of the Year John Schneider is quite literally the most qualified scout in the business to “run it back” again next year. As such, with all due respect to Bryant, Mafe, Walker, Woolen and Young, Schneider and his scouts might very well discover even better players in this draft.
The Seahawks goal, of course, is to field the best team, not replace former players with exact stylistic matches. But I thought it might be a fun exercise to look at the 2026 draft class through the very specific Seahawks-lens of doing precisely that.
So, here are this year’s Doppelgangers – a list of prospects in the upcoming NFL draft who most closely resemble the five prominent former Seahawks who signed elsewhere in free agency.