Welcome to the Seahawks: Ranking 20 new players added to the roster in 2026
The Seahawks have a lot of new names and faces on the roster in 2026, how should we rank them?
If the quality of a team’s offseason is judged by the changes they make, instead of their ability to develop the parts they keep together, then the 2026 Seahawks would be judged as a blank page.
No, they did not trade for Trent McDuffie and Myles Garrett.
They did not hire a new head coach and draft top-five picks like the Cardinals, Giants, Raiders, and Titans.
Whereas bad teams will be praised for making changes that were necessary, Seattle will be forgotten because losses were inevitable. More big names left the chat than entered. Kenneth Walker, Boye Mafe, Riq Woolen, Coby Bryant, and Klint Kubiak.
Well, I’d rather get an “A” in Feburary than in March, April, and May.
Contrary to popular belief though, the Seahawks have added 20 new players to the roster this year.
How important was each of those additions and where do they rank relative to each other? I’ve ranked all 20 players by a combination of their value to the team in 2026 and the long-term outlook for each.
(I won’t be including D’Anthony Bell. He played with the Seahawks last season, but was waived at the end of the year and picked up by the Panthers, even getting into Carolina’s wild card game against the Rams. He has since returned to Seattle.)
I’m going to start with the undrafted rookies in one group and then I’m going to go all the way to the new player ranked first and work my way down to the end of the list by the end.
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#15-#20: Undrafted free agent rookies (DE Aidan Hubbard, LB Marvin Jones, TE Lance Mason, NT Uso Seumalo, WR Levi Wentz, WR Rashad Rochelle)
The Seahawks signed seven rookies after the draft, and are now down to six after releasing WR Michael Briscoe and LB Devean Deal, but adding Rashad Rochelle. Coincidentally, Briscoe was picked up by the Vikings (by Nolan Teasley) as I was writing this article.
It’s difficult for me or anyone to rank these players so early in their careers and some of them could have longer, better Seattle careers than the veterans and drafted rookies that I’ll talk about next.
Remember, Super Joe Danno created a poll right here at Seaside Joe asking fans how many drafted rookies we think will make the 53-man roster and the lowest answer won by a lot:
It any of these six undrafted rookies is expected to make the roster, it’s probably Hubbard. Yahoo! Sports and Bleacher Report both named him the most exciting undrafted player on the roster. Doug Farrar called Hubbard a good fit for Mike Macdonald’s propensity to stunt:
If you go back to last June 4, undrafted rookies who are still on the roster a year later include Montorie Foster, Federico Maranges, Amari Kight, Nick Kallerup, Jacardia Wright, Bubba Thomas, Jared Ivey, Jalan Gaines, Connor O’Toole, J.R. Singleton, and Tyrone Broden, who has since moved from receiver to corner.
Some of those guys are practice squad, some of them played a role on a Super Bowl champion. Seattle has been developing their recent practice squad players and undrafted finds (like Ty Okada and Drake Thomas) into important components of the team.
In fact, Macdonald calls it the “ready squad” and emphasizes that Seattle’s real roster is 70 players, not 53:
So don’t take this ranking as a slight against the undrafted rookies. They’ve been targeted by the Seahawks, so that’s already a good sign for them. It’s sort of like how some people will always look forward to Leonardo DiCaprio movies; whether you like his acting or not, a lot of people think he chooses good scripts.
We could look back on the undrafted list in six months and realize Seattle’s biggest steal is on it.
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For the rest, I’m gonna FLIP IT AROUND and go from top-to-bottom.
#1 - RB Jadarian Price
The hype around Price will continue to grow as the Seahawks slowly inch from draft night to Week 1 by ramping up practices, joint practices, preseason games, until they’re playing at full speed. There was a time when Price may have been a bigger star at Notre Dame than Jeremiyah Love.
Should fans be cautious about a running back who never started a game in college, and he isn’t one of these wildly-gifted athlete who get drafted early because of his speed? Price went 32nd because the drop-off to RB3 was ENORMOUS (RB3 went 58 picks later) and Seattle knew they weren’t going to get him at 64.
There won’t be any comparisons to Jahmyr Gibbs, but stranger things have happened. Seeing Price in Seahawks practice and knowing that he’s going to get the majority of the snaps at running back next season—and that his greatest strength (stretching those runs on outside zone) fits Seattle’s greatest need—it’s as reasonable to be optimistic as it is to be cautious:
Without any major veteran additions so far this year, Price is an easy pick for number one. The order gets much more difficult from here.
#2 - DE Dante Fowler, Jr.
He’s not Myles Garrett—or even DeMarcus Lawrence—but Fowler is as good as it’s going to get in terms of Seattle’s veteran additions so far. And it’s not like he’s been terrible recently, getting 10.5 sacks for Dan Quinn’s Washington defense in 2024 with plays like this:
Fowler is barely more than a year older than Garrett, a pass rusher who the Rams are expecting to play for at least four more seasons. So even if the caliber of talent is much different, Fowler shouldn’t be confused with an aging player falling apart at the seams; in fact, he hasn’t missed a game since 2021.
A designated pass rusher (probably not much against the run), Fowler will be contributing from Week 1 and the depth he provides behind Lawrence and Uchenna Nwosu is even more important.
I’ll give it a 10% chance that Fowler is a massive steal for the Seahawks, but a 95% chance that he’s worth more than the $2.5 million guaranteed that he got from Seattle.
In which order will the other 12 new Seahawks fall? We have five veterans and seven rookies left to cover:
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