Seahawks Player Rankings: Nos. 16-20
A team is only as good as the glue that holds them together
Seahawks rookies will report to training camp in exactly one week. Veterans will join them a week later. So far the Seahawks player rankings have covered 71 names on the roster, some of which were new or fairly new to you, which is what makes this exercise worthy.
Player Rankings: Nos. 81-91
Player Rankings: Nos. 71-80
Player Rankings: Nos. 61-70
Player Rankings: Nos. 51-60
Player Rankings: Nos. 41-50
Player Rankings: Nos. 31-40
Player Rankings: Nos. 26-30
Player Rankings: Nos. 21-25
These names you should know—but that doesn’t make a reminder of how good these Seahawks are any less worthy of your time today.
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20. K Jason Myers
In Tournament of THE Champions, I didn’t put Jason Myers in the initial 24-player bracket, but then he won the 20-player “Survivor’s Bracket”, which tells me that you really want to see the kicker get more respect. So here he is at the edge of the top-20. That’s easy for him: Myers is almost 100 percent as soon as the Seahawks get to the edge of the 30.
In the 2025 season, Jason Myers:
Made a career-best 41 FGs, went 48-of-48 on XP
Tied a career-high with 9 FGs beyond 50
Franchise record career scoring leader+FGs made
Set a Super Bowl record with five FGs against the Patriots
First NFL player ever to score 200 points in a season + playoffs; Myers scored 206 points, not breaking an NFL record set by a kicker, but by LaDainian Tomlinson.
Myers’ followed the regular season by going 8-of-8 on field goals and 11-of-11 on extra points in the postseason. He’s the first kicker in history to make 49 field goals, breaking the record of 48.
Because he’s entering a contract year and coming off of one of the best seasons by a kicker in NFL history, it sure seems like Myers would be negotiating an extension right now. He’s almost certainly going to have a worse season in 2026, not because he’ll be bad, but because regression dictates it as a statistical probability.
Myers is also set to have a $7.2 million cap hit, second-highest in the league for 2026 among kickers. Seattle may want to bring that number down by signing Myers to an extension.
He’s not a great long-distance kicker (the new “long distance” isn’t 50+, it’s 57+) but he’s so good within 55 that the Seahawks won’t flirt with anyone else.
19. WR Cooper Kupp
If I had moved faster through this list, I would not have ranked Cooper Kupp in the top-20. Then I spent some more time thinking about Kupp’s impact last season while researching this July 4 article and I couldn’t disrespect him again.
Production is important and $17 million is still too much, but Kupp’s impact per play and his value in critical situations was vital to Seattle’s Super Bowl championship. For example, Kupp’s success rate last year was 58.6 percent, a much better mark than his previous two seasons with the Rams (47-49 percent).
Success rate measures the value of each run or pass play based on down and distance. Sam Darnold’s throws to Kupp consistently put Seattle in first down or favorable 2nd/3rd down situations. Especially in the playoffs. Kupp’s age is an issue in terms of how much longer he could play, but it doesn’t seem to be an issue in terms of how good he was in 2025:
The never-was-fast Kupp had fairly similar stats last season to one of his typical seasons with the Rams, but with fewer targets. Of course, his 2021 season was atypical, so we’re not talking about that outlier.
I could be convinced that the Seahawks won’t beat the Rams, and therefore don’t reach the Super Bowl, without Kupp. Not just for his play, but also his intel. Kupp’s lone season as a true number one was kind of a fluke. As a number two, he’s exactly what he Seahawks need.
18. C Jalen Sundell
As we established on Thursday, ESPN’s Mike Clay thinks that Sundell is as good/bad as Anthony Bradford. Obviously I don’t agree. Case in point, on this play Bradford blocks Sundell and tackles Zach Charbonnet:
Clay’s rankings are heavily based on stats like pass rush win rate, which our friend All-22 Films insists is one of the worst metrics in analytics. My eyes say that Sundell is a good center and the right fit for Seattle’s offensive line: Sundell and North Dakota State teammate Grey Zabel are suited to fly down field for second-level blocks on run plays, and their long-term chemistry couldn’t hurt either.
A year ago, Olu Oluwatimi, not Sundell, was favored to win the starting center job. So had I done this exercise last summer, Sundell probably ranks in the 40-60 range. Another season like 2025, Sundell will probably be extended next year.
Think of the offensive players who could stick together for at least three more seasons: Darnold, JSN, Cross, Lucas, Zabel, Shaheed, Barner, Sundell, Price, Ouzts. And I’m not even saying there aren’t more (Horton, Arroyo, etc.) but that’s just the baseline and maybe the only uncertain future is right guard.
17. OLB Uchenna Nwosu
Falling outside the top-15 is less about Nwosu’s value when he’s on the field, and more about Seattle’s need to think about other options to replace him, either during the season if he gets injured or after the season if he’s not re-signed. Although Nwosu did play 16 games, his playing time has dipped from 78 percent during his last healthy season to 56 percent in 2025:
Nwosu’s $20 million cap hit is the ninth-most for an outside linebacker this season, which is a strong endorsement-by-inaction from the Seahawks just to not cut him. However, he’s also a 30 year old free agent next year.
Nwosu tallied seven sacks (5.5 with no blitz, 1.5 during a blitz) during the season, and he had the sixth-most red zone pressures in the NFL:
Nwosu had no playoff sacks and played 51 percent of the snaps, but did corral a ball in the Super Bowl for an interception and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown. NFL Pro credited Nwosu with 43 pressures and a 13 percent pressure rate; Last season’s best pass rushers were in the 15 to 20 percent range. Nwosu isn’t elite, but he’s better than good.
Who do you think will lead the Seahawks in sacks in 2026?
16. OLB Derick Hall
Today’s article could just be called “Things Seaside Joe was wrong about”.
I called out Myers after a loss to the Rams and said an extension could be unlikely; I said Kupp and Nwosu were obvious cap casualty candidates after the season; and I claimed that Hall was likely another Boye Mafe situation, playing out one more year before deciding on a contract. Dead wrong.
The Seahawks extended Hall to a three-year, $42 million deal, which could be the most money ever given to a pass rusher with 10 career sacks.
And I don’t say that to demean or diminish Hall’s value, but that is how teams typically operate. An agent for a pass rusher will build a case around his sack totals, and vice versa. Hall only had two last season—which you can say doesn’t matter, but then you’d also have to dismiss the two he had in the Super Bowl as a case for his extension.
But I wasn’t thinking about Hall’s sack totals. I was thinking about his playing time: A dip from 60 percent to 46 percent (which is in games he played, so it doesn’t matter that he had three fewer games) is significant. So is his pressure rate.
As I said earlier, the elite players were above 15 percent: Hall’s rate was 15.1 percent last season:
That’s not the end all, be all, and pressures are far less valuable than sacks. I put it this way:
A sack is always a negative play for the offense
A pressure could be a negative play for the offense; but it could also be a gain, a first down, or even a touchdown
Hall’s pressure rate tells me that the team sees potential for him to turn his pass rush into better production next season. He’ll have to start generating more on his own, however.
Hall’s two sacks during the regular season both came during a blitz, despite Hall having almost seven times as many snaps without a blitz:
Nwosu had 5.5 sacks with a four-man rush, compared to 0 by Hall. So why this high on the list?
Well, Seattle doesn’t have many other options and none who have a future that seems as bright as Hall’s. DeMarcus Lawrence and Nwosu could be playing their final seasons with the Seahawks, Dante Fowler still needs to make the Seahawks, and backups like Jared Ivey, Connor O’Toole, Jalan Gaines have so much left to prove.
But mostly because John Schneider and Mike Macdonald have placed a $42 million bet on Derick Hall, I’m more willing to do the same. Sometimes it feels better to admit when you’re wrong than it does to brag that you’re right.