The Seattle Seahawks have an interesting free agency ahead as it pertains to their secondary. Cornerbacks Josh Jobe and Riq Woolen are unrestricted free agents, with Woolen not only likely to cost way more on the open market, but also more likely to leave Seattle.<\/p>\n
Ahead of next week\u2019s Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Field Gulls was on hand for a media conference call with former NFL scout and longtime NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah. As (seemingly) the only Seahawks representation in attendance, I had the opportunity to ask Daniel about potential Day 2 cornerback options to replace Riq, and he provided a couple of intriguing names from the SEC.<\/p>\n
\u201cJulian Neal from Arkansas, who\u2019s 6\u20191 1\/2 and 202 pounds,\u201d Jeremiah said. \u201cHe\u2019s big and long, he\u2019s an efficient mover. He can high point and play the ball, he can run and carry vertical routes. He\u2019s got recoverability, he\u2019s physical\u2014you see some big hits on tape, you know, the toughness there. Had two picks, he\u2019s in that [pick 64] range for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother big kid out of Florida is Devin Moore,\u201dJeremiah added. \u201cI don\u2019t have the officials on him, so we\u2019ll see at the combine, but the numbers I got from scouts was right around 6\u20193 and just under 200 pounds. Plays that kind of high, side shuffle technique. He\u2019s comfortable in press [coverage]. He can play through the wide receiver to the ball. He\u2019s a good blitzer\u2014you can watch him against Texas, drills Arch Manning in that one, and then has another impressive play in that game where he wheels and finds the ball for a pick.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he kind of gave you the line of scrimmage toughness as well as some ball skills down the field. But those are two big corners that are probably right in that range where they are at the bottom of Round 2.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neal transferred to Arkansas after four years at Fresno State, whereas Moore\u2019s entire collegiate career has been with the Gators. If there\u2019s any major concern regarding Moore it\u2019s his health, including a pair of season-ending shoulder injuries. Last season was his first time playing double-digit regular season games, but when healthy he was a very impactful player on an otherwise bad football team. Neal similarly shined on a sub-.500 Arkansas squad, but he doesn\u2019t have the same injury concerns as Moore and is not as fast.<\/p>\n
Of course, we don\u2019t have combine measures yet to get an even better idea of where certain players will raise and fall in the draft, but this is a good starting point to know which Seahawks prospects to keep an eye on moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks have an interesting free agency ahead as it pertains to their secondary. Cornerbacks Josh Jobe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,15,59395],"class_list":{"0":"post-763258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-draft","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116099540811095461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763258","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=763258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}