Seahawks top 2025 draft target: Linebacker?

Harold Perkins represents the peak opportunity at linebacker, but will Seahawks be in position to upgrade in 2025? Seaside Joe 1936

Could 2024 be the year of romance? On Wednesday, I was listening to the new Charlie XCX album “brat” (“Why would you be listening to that, Seaside Joe” To be up to date with “the culture”) and the song “Everything is romantic” was a track that stood out to me. It also reminded me of the upcoming album “Romance” by Fontaines D.C. …

And then you’ve got the highly-anticipated sequel to Joker, the title of which, “Folie à Deux”, refers to a psychiatric syndrome in which a person transmits their delusions to someone else. Even therapy is romantic this year. Love is everywhere you look lately…

Hopefully for the Seahawks, Love is in the air when he’s intercepting a pass to guarantee victory.

For fans to get that warm, fuzzy feeling when they watch the Seahawks this year, it’s really going to take everything in Mike Macdonald’s heart to improve a defense that ranked 30th in EPA, 28th in yards per carry, 28th in points per drive allowed, 32nd in first downs allowed, and 32nd in total plays, aka Seattle couldn’t get off the field. General regression to the mean should help somewhat, but great defenses are orchestrated by great composers (coaches), and great coaches are created by great players.

One thing the Seahawks have not had recently is very many great defensive players.

Now in the past two first rounds, Seattle has drafted the number two defensive player off of the entire NFL board in back-to-back years—CB Devon Witherspoon and DT Byron Murphy II—sending a message that the Seahawks quite liked their reputation for being a “defensive-minded franchise” and if that’s not convincing enough, they also hired Macdonald and unloaded their biggest contract offer to DL Leonard Williams.