Seahawks Player Rankings: Nos. 71-80
Which Seahawks players will rank in the 70s?
Seahawks fans can’t get too attached to every player on the 90-man roster. At best, 20 of them won’t make the roster or practice squad, and even if several of those cuts return at a later date, most of them won’t. The 20 players who comprise the first two parts of these rankings won’t be those same 20 players exactly, and in fact many of them will make the practice squad, but this order isn’t meant to be based solely on their odds of making the team.
It’s a combination of factors, including likelihood of contributions to the Seahawks in 2026, investment of team into the player, past accomplishments, and yeah sometimes it’s just trusting my gut.
Part I: Players Ranked 81-91
Your gut probably does—and should—give you a different order than mine.
That’s what voting and comments are for. And I welcome dissent.
The order will start in 10-player chunks, then 5, then eventually an individual countdown. Your voting in the Tournament of THE Champions helped determine the order.
80. TE Harrison Bryant
For a tight end who has been around as long as he has, Bryant has an air of importance about him, as though you wouldn’t realize he has only averaged 4 yards per game (yes, per game) in the last three seasons.
Bryant could make the final roster, and with Brian Fleury as the offensive coordinator now I’m sure it’s not that farfetched.
However, he’s also on a roster with four tight ends that the Seahawks already like, not including Brady Russell or Robbie Ouzts. Even if Bryant makes the roster, what combination of tight ends have to get injured for him to meaningfully contribute on Sundays? This is a team that wasn’t afraid to trade Noah Fant a year ago, so how attached are they to Bryant?
There aren’t many scenarios I foresee where I look back on this ranking in five months and feel I should have ranked Harrison Bryant a lot higher.
79. DT Deven Eastern
The 2026 draft class was considered historically shallow, a byproduct of what happens when you incentivize day three prospects to go back to school for years 4/5/6 because of NIL money. Essentially, a player good enough to be drafted in the seventh round of the NFL will make more money by going back to college.
Andrew Brandt, ESPN’s business and legal analyst, was the loudest voice championing this idea that day 3 of the draft has been tarnished by NIL:
If you believe that theory, then what happened because of NIL is that the players who are actually drafted in the later rounds are prospects who would have gone undrafted in past years … and even some prospects who may have only gotten a tryout and never signed with a team.
And if you think about it, Seattle’s decision to trade a 2027 fourth round pick for Beau Stephens helps the argument:
The move implies that John Schneider thought that Stephens was an anomaly who fell too far in the draft, much better than every other player left in the pool, and also that he’s not too worried about losing next year’s fourth round pick.
All of this to say that if you think any of these day three picks by the Seahawks are ranked too low, I beg to differ.
Eastern is Seattle’s “trait-based” shot in the dark at the position, a 6’5, 315 lbs nose tackle with 34” arms who didn’t have the production or tape to get drafted earlier than 242nd. That’s fine, but it puts pressure on the coaching staff to develop him and Eastern was already missing practices in the summer.
Josh Hite broke down Seattle’s potential nose tackle situation for Field Gulls and why Eastern is probably competing for the practice squad:
On the current roster, there are six nose tackles in total, Eastern, Brandon Pili, Jarran Reed, Bubba Thomas, J.R. Singleton and Uso Seumalo. The Seahawks generally only keep two nose tackles on their 53 man roster and two on the practice squad. Last season Reed was on the active roster and Pili was moved up to the main roster during the season. Singleton and Thomas were on the practice squad last season. Eastern and Seumalo are both rookies, and will be competing to get on the roster. Another option is that Eastern starts off on the practice squad, and is able to be called up three times for game day during the season before needing to be added to the roster if the Seahawks want him available moving forward.
If Eastern make the practice squad, great. If he doesn’t, it’s not a name many fans will remember. Just in the last couple of years, the Seahawks have drafted Damien Martinez, Michael Jerrell, DJ James, and Sataoa Lumea in this range, none of whom are still on the team.
78. CB Michael Dansby
Same story, different position. Dansby says he can run a 4.25 40-yard dash, which if true makes it all the more telling that he was three picks away from going undrafted. Al Davis would have traded his son Mark for a player who could run a 4.25, no matter what else he did.
The Seahawks have three outside cornerbacks for sure (assuming there are no snags with Devon Witherspoon) and Nehemiah Pritchett has a headstart for one more spot. At that point, you’ve got Dansby, Andre Fuller, Noah Igbinoghene, Shemar Jean-Charles, and Tyrone Broden. Dansby’s most likely role would be on special teams as a gunner, but Seattle’s got a few guys like that already so he also needs to win a job as a cornerback.
We think of Dansby and Fuller as unknowns with a high ceiling because they are rookies, but what if Igbinoghene is also an “unknown”? He kind of is. Josh Jobe was an unknown until he got coached by Mike Macdonald.
Veterans and “busts” are less exciting picks than rookies, but if we’re just placing bets on who is more likely to contribute, I’ll put my money on the former first-round pick.
77. RB Jacardia Wright
Part I’s poll showed that a lot of fans think Velus Jones was ranked too low. I wonder if that’s because it’s Jones specifically or if it’s because he’s a running back, a position that curries more favors than others due to the added spotlight that comes with gaining yards and scoring touchdowns.
Will Wright get the same running back bump? Is “everybody do the running back bump” the new dance craze?
Wright, who rushed for 195 yards in three seasons at Kansas State, went undrafted, and is almost 26 years old, made a little bit of noise with Seattle in camp and preseason last year.
But there are probably at least four running backs ahead of him, not including Zach Charbonnet, and I’m not aware of elite special teams value. It’s hard to envision his future entailing many more carries with the Seahawks, but he’s already overcome extraordinary odds to get this far.
76. WR Ricky White III
White was Seattle’s final pick last year, and was released at final cuts. The Seahawks called him up twice, giving him a handful of snaps in blowout wins over the Cardinals and Moons.
Most fans would rather see White succeed than some of the receivers I’ve ranked ahead of him, like Irvin Charles and Cody White, but how realistic is it to think he’ll be kept as a sixth receiver when those guys have proven more in the NFL? Not to mention he’s also probably behind Emmanuel Henderson.
So of course I could be rooting for Ricky White. I just can’t see how he fits in while there are still so many receivers ranked ahead of him.
The best time for any receiver to stomp his foot in the ground and demand a place on the roster is as a rookie. If you haven’t proven undeniable by the end of your first year, it’s a treacherous uphill battle after that.
(Counterpoint: David Moore didn’t play in his rookie year and still had a few nice years afterwards.)
75. OT Bobby Hart
If this list were a popularity contest, Bobby Hart could be 91st. Most fans would rather have a 23-year-old undrafted free agent rookie than a 32-year-old journeyman backup tackle.
It’s not a popularity contest, and the fact is that Hart could be a step away from backing up one of the most important positions on the team.
Hart started eight games for the Chargers last season, his first since 2021, and by most accounts was bad. PFF had this to say:
Bobby Hart earned a 50.2 overall PFF grade in the 2025 season, 82nd among 89 qualified offensive tackles. He played 514 offensive snaps on the season.
His PFF pass-blocking grade of 57.4 ranked 71st among 89 qualified offensive tackles. His run-blocking grade of 45.3 ranked 85th at the position.
He allowed 21 total pressures in pass protection. That total included 2 sacks and 2 hits allowed to opposing pass rushers. He was flagged for 5 penalties over the course of the season.
With Josh Jones apparently nursing a knee injury, Hart is competing for a backup role this year, although he is more likely to land on the practice squad. The Seahawks may not like that they had to sign Hart, but they only have two other backup tackles on the roster besides Jones.
74. OLB Jamie Sheriff
Undrafted in 2024, Sheriff is going into his third training camp and I’m sure people are still intrigued by his story of going from a beer delivery driver to a practice squad player. He’s been moved around to different positions, he got into one game last year, but the soon-to-be 26 year old Sheriff has not moved up the pecking order substantially.
Making the practice squad could be even harder for Sheriff this year than it was for him as a rookie, because now the competition is younger than him and might have more to offer Seattle in upside.
73. DT J.R. Singleton
The Seahawks have four defensive tackles who are more likely to land on the practice squad than the 53-man roster, including Singleton, Bubba Thomas, Eastern, and Uso Seumalo; the last of whom I ranked 90th, which certainly feels low.
How you order those four players appropriately is still a mystery to me. All you can do is rank them and be open to changing the order whenever new information is presented.
Singleton was a productive nose tackle at Iowa State, but went undrafted in 2025. His leadership was a valued trait in college:
“As the elder statesmen in the room, I just got to make sure they’re [the rest of Cyclones’ defense] ready to go out there and play because they have all the ability in the world,” Iowa State defensive end J.R. Singleton said.
“[Singleton and Freyler] have the ability to hold a really high standard of themselves,” head coach Matt Campbell said. “When you can do that consistently people will buy into you and then you’ll have the ability to hold other people accountable.”
It’s not that the defensive tackle position is impenetrable on Seattle’s roster, but I could write nice things about every player competing for those spots. Seumalo could be favored over Singleton and Thomas. We’ll have to see how the first couple weeks of training camp play out.
72. G Bryce Cabeldue
I would not have expected Cabeldue to rank this low back when I wrote a profile on him in 2025 with a headline I was most proud of: “When you need a guard, a Cabeldue”.
However, where do things stand now? He wasn’t practicing as of the most recent OTA updates from Brady Henderson.
The Seahawks drafted Cabeldue and Mason Richman last year in the hopes that they wouldn’t have to continue making moves at guard, but then John Schneider traded for the rights to draft Beau Stephens. It’s not totally damning, but Cabeldue wasn’t drafted high enough to think that Seattle is committed to giving him a lot of chances.
I think the graveyard of Schneider’s late-round offensive linemen is much more populated than fans realize.
That being said, 72nd isn’t that low. Cabeldue’s stock could go up in a hurry depending on the progress of players like Christian Haynes, Richman, and Stephens.
71. LS Chris Stoll
All due respect to a Super Bowl champion, I could no longer move a longsnapper up the list in favor of offensive and defensive players. No matter how many football games any of us have watched (thousands), spotting the difference between one longsnapper and another is rare.
Not saying there’s no difference (the Rams’ longsnapper cost them games last year) but there’s a standard that most longsnappers in the NFL are above.
No offense, Chris Stoll. Maybe it’s unfair? You can decide in the vote.
Josh Jones said he would be ready to practice come training camp. If he is healthy and in shape, I can’t see Bobby Hart playing as well as Jones played at a very critical point at the end of last season. You know what he can do. I think Cabeldue will win out over Haynes.
Greetings from the Emerald Isle!
I put Stoll higher than #71 because he will make the game day rosters and will play. Which means that the FO will expend 0 calories looking for a long snapper. That alone has enough value to put him somewhere in the mid to high 50s.