{"id":865101,"date":"2026-04-12T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:01:19","slug":"seattle-seahawks-think-highly-of-offensive-line-prospect-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865101\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks &#8216;Think Highly&#8217; of Offensive Line Prospect in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wouldn\u2019t blame the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/seattle-seahawks\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> if they were still celebrating their Super Bowl victory, but soon, there\u2019s more work to be done when the 2026 NFL Draft kicks off. The first night takes place on April 23, where the Seahawks boast the 32nd overall pick in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Predicting who the Seahawks could target with their first-round pick is a crapshoot, knowing 31 others will be selected before Seattle is on the clock. Yet, one NFL insider thinks they have a finger on the pulse in Seattle. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-twenty-twenty-six-nfl-draft-ioane-expected-top-fifteen-pregnon-and-bisontis-racing-for-og2-and-rutledge-as-a-sleeper\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/nfl-active-news-twenty-twenty-six-nfl-draft-ioane-expected-top-fifteen-pregnon-and-bisontis-racing-for-og2-and-rutledge-as-a-sleeper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essentially Sports\u2019 NFL insider Tony Pauline<\/a> reported that the Seahawks \u201cthink highly\u201d of Georgia Tech offensive lineman Keylan Rutledge. Pauline adds that the prospect is \u201cwidely graded as a third-round prospect, \u201d but there is a chance he ends up in the second round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Pauline adds that the Texans and Giants could both target Rutledge at the top of Round 2 due to their need for better guard play too. However, if he slips, that\u2019s where the Seahawks and even Patriots could come into play for Rutledge. <\/p>\n<p>He also worked out at center during the predraft process, but \u201cteams project him solely at guard.\u201d The Seahawks selected offensive lineman Grey Zabel in the first round last year and left tackle Charles Cross in the opening round in 2022. Could history repeat itself again?<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nfl\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-trades-take-over-first-round\" type=\"post\" id=\"1411924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL Mock Draft: Trades Take Over First Round of NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776031279_155_cdc369fe6a9c435ab1a9344f358409a43c884a12b775d8a8492a08641e9e201e.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDedicated  NFL  copywriter\/editor.  My  work  has  been  found  on  Sportsnaut,  Sports  Illustrated,  Sporting  News,  MSN,  Yahoo,  and  Minnesota  Sports  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/andrewbr2020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Buller-Russ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We wouldn\u2019t blame the Seattle Seahawks if they were still celebrating their Super Bowl victory, but soon, there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-865101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116393995598085738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865101","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=865101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}