{"id":196424,"date":"2025-07-10T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/196424\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:18:07","slug":"seahawks-among-most-improved-teams-after-the-2025-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/196424\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks among most improved teams after the 2025 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> made a league-high 11 selections during the 2025 NFL draft. With training camp mere weeks away, the Seahawks possess high hopes for several of those first-year talents to be immediate contributors. <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/07\/07\/seahawks-offensive-line-ranks-poorly-in-latest-pff-list\/84496152007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First-round pick Grey Zabel<\/a> will start at left guard, and second-round <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/06\/11\/seahawks-minicamp-nick-emmanwori-keeps-asking-the-right-questions\/84148169007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">safety Nick Emmanwori<\/a> figures to play a massive role as well.<\/p>\n<p>The 33rd Team analyzed each team&#8217;s draft class. They anointed the Seahawks as one of the most improved teams in the league following the NFL draft festivities. That feels notable heading into camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seattle entered this draft with a lot of picks and not many immediate needs,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the33rdteam.com\/nfl-teams-that-improved-the-most-in-2025-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Valentine wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Their recent investments in this roster mean they&#8217;re young and unproven, but not lacking overall talent. Seattle wisely played the board for needs but was also unafraid to make some great value additions that made sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valentine is likely referring to Zabel and Emmanwori. While Zabel was a combination of a need and best player available pick, John Schneider traded up 17 spots to nab Emmanwori, a potential impact defender, despite having Coby Bryant and Julian Love on the roster at safety.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Seahawks are unpredictable on paper. If they&#8217;re to compete for the NFC West division title, they&#8217;ll need instant production from members of their rookie class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks made a league-high 11 selections during the 2025 NFL draft. With training camp mere weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[204,80,247,265,19,7,20842,1324,1329,1325,248,267,88,6,15,35196,245,537,530,238,237,261,2635,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-196424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-draft","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-hub","15":"tag-julian","16":"tag-julian-love","17":"tag-love","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-national-sports","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-draft","23":"tag-nfl-hub","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-seahawks","28":"tag-seattle","29":"tag-seattle-seahawks","30":"tag-seattleseahawks","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196424","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=196424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}