Every prospect the Seahawks are linked to who could be a first round pick
My final pick for who the Seahawks will draft on Thursday (or Friday)
If you think that you’re going to know ahead of time who the Seahawks are going to draft because Rob Staton or Daniel Jeremiah or Hawkblogger or Peter Schrager or Seaside Joe said it’s what would happen, you might as well hire a Magic 8 ball as your new financial adviser.
Predicting Devon Witherspoon at the 5th pick was a thousand times easier than forecasting pick 32…and most people still got that wrong.
Predicting the 32nd pick before the draft has started is sort of like going to a wedding expecting “chicken or fish?” but instead someone hands you the entire Cheesecake Factory menu.
If the Seahawks end up drafting someone who anyone predicted they would draft, by all means let those people have a day to celebrate a deserved victory (I overthought the Grey Zabel pick last year and give credit to those who didn’t), but it’ll still be a lucky guess.
John Schneider couldn’t tell you who the Seahawks are going to draft with their first pick yet. From the sounds of it, there are at least 50 prospects who could go within the first 31 picks.
No matter how many times people try to sell it as one at this time of year, Draft Day is not a good movie. But it got this right:
So who is my final 2026 mock pick for the Seahawks?
Based on everything I just said, it doesn’t make sense for me to change what I wrote last weekend: I want Seattle to draft Texas A&M guard Chase Bisontis.
You should predict what you want to happen because it doesn’t actually matter what you believe will happen.
(In past years I’ve messed with adding in predictions of the Seahawks trading down, but I’m just not even going to toy around with that boring answer this time even though Seattle is desperately trying to trade down. Bisontis fits as a second round pick too.)
Who do you WANT the Seahawks to draft?
By the way, does it matter that the Seahawks met with some edge rushers and cornerbacks projected to go around pick 32? Of course it matters. Every piece of intel matters in some way. But before every draft from 2022 to 2024 the Seahawks met with the top quarterback prospects, and yet Seattle didn’t add a single notable rookie quarterback during those years. Not even as an undrafted signing.
Last year, the Seahawks met with three of the top edge rushers and two of the top cornerbacks. Seattle didn’t draft one edge rusher or cornerback.
The Seahawks could use their first two picks on a cornerback and an edge rusher, so maybe they take Chris Johnson in the first and Cashius Howell in the second. They’ve done the homework. But I didn’t do any homework in school and look how I turned out.
I’m going with Bisontis because this is a pick for me, not because there’s much of a reason to believe it will happen.
If I was trying to reason it out though, these are all the players expected to be in contention for the first round who have been linked to Seattle before the draft and where things currently stand: