Seahawks Player Rankings: Nos. 41-50
How the Seahawks could fill-out the back end of their roster, if not calling on these players to start at some point
We are almost into the top-40 of this list ranking all 91 players on the Seattle Seahawks right now, but who will be the highest-ranked player who doesn’t make the final 53-man roster? Because Seattle’s roster is not top-heavy.
If anything, the Seahawks roster is probably even more impressive from player 20-50 than it is from player 1-20. It’s the best 20-50, 30-50, or 40-50 in the NFL.
Player Rankings, Part 1: Nos. 81-91
Player Rankings, Part 2: Nos. 71-80
Player Rankings, Part 3: Nos. 61-70
Player Rankings, Part 4: Nos. 51-60
These next 10 players are not all guaranteed spots on the 53-man roster just because they’re in the top-50 of this list. In fact, some of them probably won’t, but then others could end up playing far more snaps than expected.
50. S Rodney Thomas II
Thomas joins the Seahawks having made just one start over his last 36 games, an indication that neither Gus Bradley nor Lou Anarumo saw him as fit to be a fifth or sixth-best defensive back on the team. However, Thomas did keep his spot on the roster via special teams and a few months from now we could be talking about him the same way we do Brady Russell or Jake Bobo.
Seattle’s depth at safety won’t likely open the door for Thomas barring injuries, but he could have some defensive value. Courtesy of Alexandre Castro, this play shows Thomas (#25, safety towards the top of the screen) break up a pass against the Packers:
The Seahawks paid him very little ($1.4m total, $187k guaranteed) and could still go in another direction depending on how camp goes for AJ Finley and Maxen Hook.
49. G Mason Richman
Richman has developed a bit of a cult status with Seahawks fans this offseason thanks to some oohs and aahs at OTAs, but almost solely from Dave Wyman, as far as I know. Overreaction? Maybe. We won’t know for sure until the pads come on, at least.
I think it’s far more important that last year I wrote the headline, “Mason Richman, has he gone too far, do we know it won’t matter anyway?”.
Should Richman have that breakout season in 2026, will this ode to Hall and Oates finally take flight? Too much of a stretch that the song is actually “Rich Girl”?
I’m right there with everybody else when it comes to wanting to see Richman, seen here holding a weight and shuffling his feet, succeed.
But everybody should be hitting the gym. I’m rarely concerned about player exercise habits. Richman is still a seventh-round pick with two career games and one career offensive snap. I’m probably overreacting to put him in the top 50, not selling him short. Seattle would be happy just getting a Jake Curhan-ish career from Richman.
Plus, there’s only one job thought to be available even within the next two years—everything but right guard is locked up for at least that long—and if there’s a successor to Anthony Bradford the lineman du jour is Beau Stephens. Another untested guard who has gotten a bit more hype than expected.
48. QB Jalen Milroe
When I did the “Sleeper’s Bracket” in the Tournament, Milroe got no votes, essentially meaning he ranked 20th out of 20 additional players who I put outside of the top-24.
Under different circumstances against different players, Milroe may have gotten some votes. However, the last we saw of Milroe he had that bad toss against the Bucs that led to a lost fumble.
He really should have never been in that position. I don’t really care about the fumble.
I wouldn’t call Milroe a gamble because he was only a late third-round pick, but I would say—and have always said—that his college career was hardly something that should translate to success as a quarterback in the NFL. Sometimes players do unpredictable things that “should not translate” and maybe Milroe will be that guy, I hope he is, but I’m a person who loves evidence and Milroe doesn’t have any yet.
Count me among Seahawks fans who can’t wait to see Milroe’s second preseason. His appearances for Seattle will be among the most anticipated events of August. Did the accuracy and decision-making improve? We know he’s a great athlete. We know he’s an electric runner with the ball in his hands.
Those moments are very entertaining, but what the Seahawks need to see from Milroe that they didn’t see in the preseason last year is if he can finally put all of his exciting tools together and become a quarterback.
47. T Amari Kight
Kight’s place in the top-50 is a testament to why my ranking doesn’t tell you where these players are going to be six months from now or a year from now. Had I done this exercise in 2025, Kight would have been in that first wave of players ranked in the eighties. In January, Kight was playing against the 49ers in the wild card game.
The undrafted free agent was a four-star recruit who started his career at Alabama and transferred to UCF in 2023. Sadly, he too got injured and was placed on IR with a knee injury during the playoffs. To what degree this has impacted his offseason is unclear, but Kight worked his way up from UDFA to being cut to eventually being called up from the practice squad and backing up Charles Cross.
And I wouldn’t say I’m excited about any of Seattle’s backup tackles anyway. Maybe Logan Brown ends up taking his spot. But the team doesn’t have many exciting options behind the starters, so Kight represents the one who has already proven something.
46. CB Noah Igbinoghene
Like Milroe, Igbinoghene also didn’t do too well in the Survivor’s Bracket, nabbing just a few votes in his division. That’s partly because fans really don’t know who he is yet or why he could play a big role for Mike Macdonald, and also because those who know him know that Igbinoghene is a first-round bust.
Igbinoghene was compared to players like Xavien Howard and Trae Waynes coming out of Auburn in 2020, and was picked 30th overall by the Dolphins. Fittingly, Howard was his teammate that year and intercepted 10 passes.
However, Igbinoghene was young (a 20-year-old rookie), inexperienced (only two years at CB after switching from WR), and he didn’t get as much of an offseason because of COVID.
He hardly had a chance to settle in and play until he signed with Dan Quinn’s Washington Moons in 2024, which was by far his best career season (56% completions, 5.6 yards per target allowed). Last season was not as good for Igbinoghene, but he’s only 26, which is why I highlighted him as a free agency target that Seattle should consider before he signed.
There’s little standing in his way to get a part in Macdonald’s defense. I’d say a good role comes down to him and Julian Neal, who I do have ranked higher. His range of outcomes at the end of camp is as wide as anybody’s, from being a good rotational player in Macdonald’s secondary to not making the team at all.
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