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32 Teams/32 Days: Seattle Seahawks

Record - 9-8 [Missed Playoffs]

Division - NFC West (3rd in Division - 2-4 Record)

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2023 Draft

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Round Pick Player Position College
1 5 Devon Witherspoon CB Illinois
1 20 Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR Ohio State
2 37 Derick Hall EDGE Auburn
2 52 Zach Charbonnet RB UCLA
4 108 Anthony Bradford G LSU
4 123 Cam Young DT Miss. State
5 151 Mike Morris DL Michigan
5 154 Olusegun Oluwatim C Michigan
6 198 Jerrick Reed II S New Mexico
7 237 Kenny McInotsh RB Georgia
UDFA More Jake Bobo WR UCLA
UDFA — Chris Stoll LS Penn State

Grades

Round 1, Pick 5 - Devon Witherspoon

In the leadup to the 2023 Draft, most Seahawks fans were pounding the table for Will Anderson, Jalen Carter, or a QB. But the dark horse name being reported by the Seahawks beat was Devon Witherspoon. As it turns out, the dark horse was the right horse.

When you draft a CB in the Top 5, you hope that they are an immediate game changer. Spoon, thankfully, was that game changer. Whether it was his masterful coverage or his surprisingly terrifying pass rush, dude was one of only a few true difference makers on a very shaky defensive unit.

When your corner is consistently suplexing guys, that’s when you know the guy’s special. The only knock on his rookie year was that he wasn’t fully healthy, and that likely cost him a DROY. Even still, he’s an EASY A+ Grade

Round 1, Pick 20 - JSN

Smith-Njigba had what I like to call a deceptively good rookie season. You look at his 600 receiving yards and 4 TDs and your first thought is “That’s it? That doesn’t look like the production of a 1st Round receiver.” However with a closer glance, you can already see the impact that he’s made.

Seattle, under Pete Carroll, was never a “spread it up and shred it up” pass offense. He’s always tried to do a balanced, run first offense. As such, The WR3 never feasts. JSN’s 628 Rec. Yards was actually the 2nd most for a WR3 in the Carroll era (behind Lockett’s rookie season [664]).

Even with a weaker passing season, JSN always had some role in the offense with at least 20 yards in 11 straight games from Week 5 to 15 and he consistently found himself in the right place at the right time, with go-ahead TDs in Cleveland and Philly.

I fully expect JSN to turn the corner in Year 2. But for now, his grade is B-

Round 2, Pick 37 - Derrick Hall*

Seeing his story of perseverance and strength was one of the coolest things to see during the draft. I was stoked to see him join the Seahawks. However on the field, it was far less of a storybook situation. Underwhelming is the word to use. Hall appeared in only 25% of Seattle’s defensive snaps (getting far more love on Special Teams with 62%) and only mustered five pressures and five QB hits during the season. It seems that Hall is taking the Boye Mafe route of acclimating to the Pros during his rookie season. Not a great year 1, but not the end of the world either. Gets a bump for ST role. Grade: C+

Round 2, Pick 52 - Zach Charbonnet

Classic Pete Move, but one that makes sense. Seattle’s RB health has been an eternal mystery and Charbonnet gives Seattle a decent backup for whenever K9 goes down. While Charbonnet showed promise in his Rookie season, he never turned into the thunder to K9’s lighting like expected. That’s the area to improve for 2024. Grade: C+

Round 4, Pick 108 - Anthony Bradford

Bradford pretty quickly became Seattle’s starting Right Guard and like with most mid-round rookies, felt the growing pains. A PFF grade in the 50s is definitely rough. If he can improve for Year 2, not a bad value. But for now, Grade: C

Round 4, Pick 123 - Cam Young

Sensing a theme here, Seattle’s past few selections have not been outright misses, but instead are players who simply aren’t there…yet. Great for the long term future of a team, but it’s less favorable to look back just one year later. Young was involved in 16 games, but only had about 20% of the snaps, both defensively and on ST. Curious to see where Year 2 takes him - Grade: C

Round 5, Pick 151 - Mike Morris

Can’t in good conscience give this pick a grade yet, as he missed all but one game with a shoulder injury. - Grade: Incomplete

Round 5, Pick 154 - Olusegun Oluwatimi

After signing Evan Brown in FA, Olu Oluwatimi became Seattle’s backup center. He had one start, against the Cardinals and he looked promising. Love the long term outlook for the pick. - Grade: B-

Round 6, Pick 198 - Jerrick Reed II

Reed was looking pretty dang promising, showing up primarily on special teams. However, his season ended prematurely with a Torn ACL in Wk. 11. If he can recover to full health, I expect to see him step up into an even bigger role in Year 2. Great return for a 6th Round guy - Grade: B-

Round 7, Pick 237 - Kenny McIntosh

Plenty of Seahawks fans were excited to see McIntosh fall all the way to the 7th round and were curious to see how he would be used in the offense. However this Apple simply wasn’t ripe by the time the season started. McIntosh dealt with injuries throughout the offseason and the Seahawks FO thought he simply wasn’t ready to play and shut him down for the year. Oh well. Grade: Incomplete

Overall, this draft could go any way. If they turn the corner, this could end up being a nice foundational piece of a Super Bowl contender. However in 2023 turns out to be the standard and not the exception, it’s definitely more of a rougher return

Free Agents

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Player Position Prev. Team Contract
Dre’Mont Jones DE DEN (2019-2022) 3 Yr, $51.5M
Julian Love S NYG (2019-2022) 2 Yr, $12M
Bobby Wagner MLB LAR (2022) 1 Yr, $5.5M
Jarran Reed NT GB (2022) 2 Yr, $9M
Devin Bush MLB PIT (2019-2022) 1 Yr, $3.5M
Evan Brown C/G DET (2020-2022) 1 Yr, $2.25M
Mario Edwards EDGE TEN (2022) 1 Yr, $1.32M

The 2023 Season

Week Opponent Result Record
Week 1 Vs. LAR L - 13-30 0-1
Week 2 at DET W - 37-31 [OT] 1-1
Week 3 Vs. CAR W - 37-27 2-1
Week 4 at NYG W - 24-3 3-1
Week 6 at CIN L - 13-17 3-2
Week 7 Vs. ARI W - 20-10 4-2
Week 8 Vs. CLE W - 24-10 5-2
Week 9 at BAL L - 3-37 5-3
Week 10 Vs. WAS W - 29-26 6-3
Week 11 at LAR L - 16-17 6-4
Week 12 Vs. SF L - 13-31 6-5
Week 13 at DAL L - 35-41 6-6
Week 14 at SF L - 16-28 6-7
Week 15 Vs. PHI W - 20-17 7-7
Week 16 at TEN W - 20-17 8-7
Week 17 Vs. PIT L - 23-30 8-8
Week 18 at ARI W - 21-20 9-8

Week-by-Week Recap to Updated Shortly

High Points and Low Points

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The Highs

1.) Sea-Lions Bowl III

Offense Ahoy! For the 3rd straight year, Detroit and Seattle faced off in a game where the combined score went into the high 60s. MCDC and Pete Carroll turned down the gritty defenses and let their offenses cook. One simply can’t beat an entertaining offensive shootout. Keep your eyes on 2024 as the two teams are slated to face off once again

2.) More Bobo

Every preseason, Seattle seems to find an undrafted rookie who steals the scene and inevitably gets cut in the preseason. 12s will remember names like Kasen Williams and Troymaine Pope.

So when UDFA Jake Bobo came in with reports of an impeccable work ethic and the respect of the coaching staff and receivers, fans began to get their hopes up again. The hopes grew into hype with the legend of More Bobo. Starting as a quip by Seattle RB coach, Chad Morton. Fans and players alike began pounding the table for More Bobo.

Which got even more passionate when Bobo Bo-Balled the heck out of the 2023 preseason. And to the surprise of all skeptics, Bobo actually made the team. Now, Bobo didn’t turn into a statistical beast with a fun-sounding name in year one (that honor goes to Puka Nacua). However the plays he did get involved in, often led to TDs, which is pretty sweet for a UDFA receiver.

3.) 11 Sacks

Seattle’s pass rush has been its Achilles Heel over the past few years. They paid a pretty penny for their safeties and drafted plenty of edge rushers, nickelbacks, and corners, but they simply could not crack the pass rushing side of the game.

That was the story of the 2023 season as well…for the most part. For one glorious week, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Against the Giants on MNF, nothing could beat Seattle’s pass rush. If sacks were cents, then Seattle got their Danny Dimes worth and even added one more against Parris Campbell. Seattle had 47 total sacks on the year and nearly a quarter of them came from this one game. Just a beautiful anomaly.

5.) Tyler Lockett Stands Alone

Steve Largent was the Seahawks first true star and, by retirement, led the NFL in every major …

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