Seahawks Community Mock Draft

Seahawks fans gather round for a collaborative mock draft discussion to find out what WE want Seattle to do in 2025

Apr 06, 2025

The Seattle Seahawks have a ton of buying power in the 2025 NFL Draft thanks to trading DK Metcalf and Geno Smith for second and third round picks. But despite parting with several key players, Seattle’s answers to those departures (Sam Darnold and Cooper Kupp) should be enough for John Schneider to focus on a long-term vision with their picks (five of the first 92) and not just reacting to their big trades with form-fitting draft selections.

What should the Seahawks do with picks 18, 50, 52, 82, and 92? Don’t ask me, this post is made FOR YOU!

Though I did write some content today, I want the highlight of this newsletter to be IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. I added some polls to complement the written content, but then I’m going to post several questions for you in the comments section that will help guide us towards Seaside Joe Community’s preferred decisions in the draft.

So don’t just hang out here, go into the comments and join the discussion if you have a Regular Joes or Super Joes membership. Even if you don’t have one, you can answer all the poll questions and read the comments that will help guide us/me towards better 2025 prospects.

Trade or no trade?

I’ve created four trade scenarios. Use these parameters as the basis for your poll answer at the end.

Raiders: Pick 6 for Picks 18, 2.50, and 4.137

I saw someone’s baseless (but plausible) speculation that Pete Carroll would try to trade down (or get the Raiders GM to trade down) and why not call his old team to gauge their interest? At this point in the draft, the Seahawks could almost certainly get a starter, including an offensive lineman like Armand Membou or Will Campbell.

I can’t tell you what you would do with the pick, but in this class the blue chip players will be gone by picks 6-8.

Is it wishful thinking to expect Seattle to move up 12 spots without giving up a first round pick? Here’s why I don’t think it is:

In 2014, the Dolphins traded up from 12 to 3 with the Raiders to get Dion Jordan and they only gave up pick 2.42 to make it happen. The 2025 draft class is similarly underwhelming, so I’m expecting trade prices to be unexpectedly low this year and that’s why we might not see many deals happen.

Colts: Pick 14 for Picks 18, 3.92

Instead of moving up a lot, what if the Seahawks just move up a little? If a player like Campbell, Tyler Warren, Jalon Walker, Will Johnson, or Ashton Jeanty has fallen to 14, maybe there’s one guy Seattle really wants more than any other prospect and they offer their second third round pick to get him.

Chargers: Picks 22, 3.86 for Pick 18

If the Seahawks do not trade up — which they haven’t done in the first round in 28 years — they could get calls to move down. Caution yourselves against expecting a phenomenal return to give up their 18th pick, I might even be overplaying the hand to suggest a third round pick.

Saints: Picks 40, 184, 2026 first round pick for Pick 18

So how did the Seahawks get a future first for pick 18 but earlier I suggested the Raiders move down from 6 and don’t get one from Seattle?

Because the Seahawks would be giving up their entire first round pick this year. John Schneider is essentially asking to bank his 2025 first round pick to use it in 2026. The Saints are willing to do this if and only if they see a QB prospect at 18 who they feel they gotta have right now, which could be Shedeur Sanders. It’s a two-for-one deal where GM Mickey Loomis gets to take the guy he wants (Shemar Stewart) and new head coach Kellen Moore gets one too (Sanders).

The upside is that Seattle would have two first round picks in 2026. The downside is that they don’t have a first rounder anymore and there’s no telling if New Orleans will be good or bad or mediocre.

So which of these five options would you vote for: 4 trades and 1 no-trade:

Remember, I’ll post more questions in the comments below:

Need or Best Player Available?

There’s usually a bit of a contradiction in how fans respond to this question, because logically almost everybody agrees that it only makes sense to take “the best player”, but without failure Seahawks fans have CONSISTENTLY demanded that Seattle draft a guard or a center or any offensive lineman who helps that unit. Not this year…every year.

Every year because the Seahawks haven’t drafted a true first round guard or center since Chris Spencer in 2005, and ironically more recent first round picks who became guards (James Carpenter, Germain Ifedi) are among the most criticized of Pete’s tenure.

It’s difficult to have it both ways:

You can’t really draft the best player available if you’re drafting “the best guard available” UNLESS he is also the best overall player
You can’t really target a need if you draft the highest available prospect on your board and he plays a position you have “set enough” at the moment

Keep in mind that teams do not know what their needs are yet. If the draft was held after training camp and the preseason, then teams could target rookies based on what happened in August, only then would they TRULY be fitting their needs.

The Seahawks presumably did not consider Brian Thomas in the first round last year because they had DK Metcalf. How would Thomas (1,282 yards, 10 TD as a rookie) look on the depth chart right about now?

Are you willing sacrifice all presumptions of need in order for the Seahawks to draft the player they feel is “the best” or must Schneider consider his current roster when making all first round decisions?

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Rapid-Fire Position Polls

Now we will try and narrow down which position groups most appeal to you in the first round. If you feel you don’t “know” the draft well enough, I encourage you to participate anyway. Trust me, you know enough!

Either/Or position groups for the first round: GO!

I’ll use the results here to create a second round of this “poll tournament” based on the answers.

We need specific prospect nominations

Now it is time to get into the nitty gritty of some of the prospects you want to pound the table for in 2025. On Saturday, we had a nomination for LB Jihaad Campbell and I posed the question to you for more prospects you were pining for in the comments.

This is where the SEASIDE JOE COMMUNITY MOCK DRAFT really begins:

I’ll post questions in the comments below and we’ll see who we collectively would “mock draft pick” for the Seahawks in 2025.

So you can’t just read this far, you must hop over to the comments section to continue the party. Either click the “leave a comment button” and that’ll take you there or click the header of this email to go to the main Seaside Joe website edition of the newsletter and scroll down to the comments.

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