I admit to being easily swayed, but I like your picks, especially the versatile lineman in round one. Your article about OL guys retiring early scared me.
"would be the Muggsy Bogues of the NFL." Cool, most everyone cheered on Muggsy Bogues who played in the NBA for 14 seasons, from 1987 to 2001. Let's go get D'Angelo Ponds.
KenJoe : "That’s a mission for John Benton, one of the best offensive line coaches in the NFL over the last 20 years." This is So big for the Hawks, 'n KenJoe lets us know it.
Truly, any other Team would have cut Bradford a year or 2 ago. I feel we have watched a huge Man find the confidence given him, usually through Family. I suspect he may continue to depend on his role here as a Family Member, irrgardless of compensation. Friends and Teammates have become like Brothers to him. JS will absolutely pay him everything he can. Going elsewhere will see him revert to form and become less than he knows he can be here. The future of the Team depends on our guys coming together in this way.
If we were to stick and pick and wound up with these exact 3 guys, I'd be thrilled. Ponds is the only guy who has been on my radar since before the Super Bowl, but bringing in those 2 big guys would balance out his lack of size. I fully expect us to trade back from 32 if there are any good offers, but it's a weird draft.
I’m totally on board with you that all the other mocks are looking at need rather than BPA. I think there’s a couple of enticing guard/center prospects that should be available in our range.
I also like the Ponds pick. I think I read somewhere that his vertical was actually half inch higher than Emmanwori’s. So is his height really as much a disadvantage as people are making it out to be? Especially when you combine that with his elite production at IU.
Great article SSJ, I’m with you 100%. The Hawks don’t have big wholes like last year and 12 picks in 2027. I want an Edge and if the Hawks pick one great, but there will be venter options after the draft.
When you look at the few free agent signings JS made this year - Emmanuel Wilson RUNNING BACK, White SAFETY, Igbinighene CORNERBACK - it’s as if he’s setting himself up with the bare minimum he needs at those positions to go anywhere the draft takes him. He even brought in an EDGE veteran free agent this week who AD is very familiar with and can probably replace Mafe’s Edge4 snaps this year.
I had confidence in JS last year. I pivoted off the Geno train the moment he made the trade. I jumped on the Zabel car the moment he selected a Guard in round one. But my confidence in JS is no longer plain confidence, it’s utmost confidence. I’m already pivoting off my guys to his selections and the draft is still 5 days away. We may only have 4 picks, but we have one in each of the first three rounds. The value of those picks is three times the value of picks in rounds 4-7. We’re good. Every year JS nails the UDFA potion of the draft, and that’s because those agents know the Seahawks will absolutely give a UDFA a true shot to show what he can do.
Is JS going to nail every pick? No, but I think he’ll get at least two out of the top three that play a significant role on this year’s, or future Seahawk teams. We’ve already got 75 players under contract. We’re only going to get better come Thursday or Friday.
I think he's learned from the 2014 and 2015 drafts. Draft dogs that will compete, and will not shy away from competition regardless of the resume's of the guys already on the roster.
I'd be happy with 2 trench players and a DB. Adding big, strong, tough players on d or o-line is never a bad idea. You can make B runners into A runners if the o-line is dominant. And you can make B linebackers A linebackers if your d-line is dominant.
Hey look, it's a Guard prospect I keep mentioning! Bisontis, I'm not so much hoping we do draft him (if we do I'll be very happy), more praying the Rams and 49ers don't.
Give or take a player preference, that's pretty close to where I am this morning. I might take CB/S at 96 and IDL at 188, but that's just quibbling.
If the Seahawks take Ponds...if Ponds lasts that far...that'll be a lesson learned. And I bet he blocks at least one kick next year, whoever gets him.
I do think this is very much BPA for the Seahawks, an enviable place to be.
Came by to pile on the notion of Price at 32, though. Just heard Trevor Sikkema say he has Coleman at RB2, in the 70s, and Price in the 90s. Sikkema's opinion is that Price is a limited runner who can only succeed outside the tackles. He's 1B, not 1A, and I'm not spending a R1 pick, even in a theoretically "down" draft year, on Robin instead of Batman, who plays a different position. If any of that made sense.
I admit to being easily swayed, but I like your picks, especially the versatile lineman in round one. Your article about OL guys retiring early scared me.
"would be the Muggsy Bogues of the NFL." Cool, most everyone cheered on Muggsy Bogues who played in the NBA for 14 seasons, from 1987 to 2001. Let's go get D'Angelo Ponds.
KenJoe : "That’s a mission for John Benton, one of the best offensive line coaches in the NFL over the last 20 years." This is So big for the Hawks, 'n KenJoe lets us know it.
Truly, any other Team would have cut Bradford a year or 2 ago. I feel we have watched a huge Man find the confidence given him, usually through Family. I suspect he may continue to depend on his role here as a Family Member, irrgardless of compensation. Friends and Teammates have become like Brothers to him. JS will absolutely pay him everything he can. Going elsewhere will see him revert to form and become less than he knows he can be here. The future of the Team depends on our guys coming together in this way.
Double rec to you for this one, Jimmy.
If we were to stick and pick and wound up with these exact 3 guys, I'd be thrilled. Ponds is the only guy who has been on my radar since before the Super Bowl, but bringing in those 2 big guys would balance out his lack of size. I fully expect us to trade back from 32 if there are any good offers, but it's a weird draft.
I would be all over this (in a good way) if this is the result of the Seahawks first three rounds of the draft.
I’m totally on board with you that all the other mocks are looking at need rather than BPA. I think there’s a couple of enticing guard/center prospects that should be available in our range.
I also like the Ponds pick. I think I read somewhere that his vertical was actually half inch higher than Emmanwori’s. So is his height really as much a disadvantage as people are making it out to be? Especially when you combine that with his elite production at IU.
Great article SSJ, I’m with you 100%. The Hawks don’t have big wholes like last year and 12 picks in 2027. I want an Edge and if the Hawks pick one great, but there will be venter options after the draft.
When you look at the few free agent signings JS made this year - Emmanuel Wilson RUNNING BACK, White SAFETY, Igbinighene CORNERBACK - it’s as if he’s setting himself up with the bare minimum he needs at those positions to go anywhere the draft takes him. He even brought in an EDGE veteran free agent this week who AD is very familiar with and can probably replace Mafe’s Edge4 snaps this year.
I had confidence in JS last year. I pivoted off the Geno train the moment he made the trade. I jumped on the Zabel car the moment he selected a Guard in round one. But my confidence in JS is no longer plain confidence, it’s utmost confidence. I’m already pivoting off my guys to his selections and the draft is still 5 days away. We may only have 4 picks, but we have one in each of the first three rounds. The value of those picks is three times the value of picks in rounds 4-7. We’re good. Every year JS nails the UDFA potion of the draft, and that’s because those agents know the Seahawks will absolutely give a UDFA a true shot to show what he can do.
Is JS going to nail every pick? No, but I think he’ll get at least two out of the top three that play a significant role on this year’s, or future Seahawk teams. We’ve already got 75 players under contract. We’re only going to get better come Thursday or Friday.
I think he's learned from the 2014 and 2015 drafts. Draft dogs that will compete, and will not shy away from competition regardless of the resume's of the guys already on the roster.
I think we’ll get three good ones in the first three rounds, and a few more possible hits at 188 and UDFAS.
I'd be happy with 2 trench players and a DB. Adding big, strong, tough players on d or o-line is never a bad idea. You can make B runners into A runners if the o-line is dominant. And you can make B linebackers A linebackers if your d-line is dominant.
Hey look, it's a Guard prospect I keep mentioning! Bisontis, I'm not so much hoping we do draft him (if we do I'll be very happy), more praying the Rams and 49ers don't.
Give or take a player preference, that's pretty close to where I am this morning. I might take CB/S at 96 and IDL at 188, but that's just quibbling.
If the Seahawks take Ponds...if Ponds lasts that far...that'll be a lesson learned. And I bet he blocks at least one kick next year, whoever gets him.
I do think this is very much BPA for the Seahawks, an enviable place to be.
Came by to pile on the notion of Price at 32, though. Just heard Trevor Sikkema say he has Coleman at RB2, in the 70s, and Price in the 90s. Sikkema's opinion is that Price is a limited runner who can only succeed outside the tackles. He's 1B, not 1A, and I'm not spending a R1 pick, even in a theoretically "down" draft year, on Robin instead of Batman, who plays a different position. If any of that made sense.