{"id":13117,"date":"2025-04-30T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/13117\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:12:10","slug":"seahawks-wont-use-rookie-qb-jalen-milroe-as-a-gadget-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/13117\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks won’t use rookie QB Jalen Milroe as a gadget player"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boldest selection the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> made in the 2025 NFL draft<\/a> occurred when general manager John Schneider landed former Alabama<\/a> quarterback Jalen Milroe<\/a> at No. 92 in the third round. Milroe is a dynamic dual-threat QB. With Sam Darnold on the roster, questions have been raised regarding how Seattle will utilize their rookie signal caller.<\/p>\n

Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald wants it to be known that Milroe isn’t a Taysom Hill-like gadget player. Seattle will attempt to develop Milroe into a long-term option at quarterback.<\/p>\n

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“The way (the Saints<\/a>) used (Hill) was more in a tight end-fullback hybrid role, sometimes taking snaps; Jalen is a quarterback through and through,” Macdonald said via Michael-Shawn Dugar of The Athletic<\/a>. “He’s going to be trained to play quarterback for us. When he’s in there, he’s going to be playing quarterback. But the athleticism is going to come to life when he’s on the field.”<\/p>\n

The Seahawks signed Darnold to a three-year contract in free agency. That’s not a particularly long-term deal when it comes to QBs. If Darnold fails to meet Seattle’s expectations, they could consider cutting ties early, making Milroe a potential succession plan.<\/p>\n

Schneider also signed Drew Lock in free agency. An experienced and more traditional quarterback, Lock projects as Darnold’s backup. That leaves Milroe with an undefined role heading into his rookie season.<\/p>\n

If Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak wants to create an offensive package for Milroe, he’d have to be active each week. That would mean activating three QBs on game-day, or would require Milroe to leapfrog Lock for QB2. Either way, the Seahawks should find a way to take advantage of their rookie quarterback’s 4.40 speed, a reported 40-yard dash time at Pro Day.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: 2025 NFL draft: Seahawks won’t use Jalen Milroe like Taysom Hill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boldest selection the Seattle Seahawks made in the 2025 NFL draft occurred when general manager John Schneider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[2868,7,753,2861,2860,6,5592,1878,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-13117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-drew-lock","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jalen-milroe","11":"tag-john-schneider","12":"tag-mike-macdonald","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-rookie-quarterback","15":"tag-sam-darnold","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114428270927352325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}