Predicting what the Seattle Seahawks will do in the first round of any draft — when they haven’t traded those first-round picks away for your Percy Harvins and Jimmy Grahams and Jamal Adamses and whatnot — tends to be a fool’s exercise. Head coach/shot-caller Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider tend to march to the beat of their own orchestra for better and worse, so if you’re assuming that Seattle, with needs all over their defense and Geno Smith signed to a fat new contract, wouldn’t take a quarterback with one of their two first-round picks… well, I don’t know what to tell you.
In fact, I think it’s entirely possible that the Seahawks could take a quarterback with either the fifth pick (from Denver in the Russell Wilson trade) or the 20th pick, sit him behind Smith for a year or so, and see how things go from there. Carroll and Schneider were on hand for the pro days of Alabama’s Bryce Young, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Kentucky’s Will Levis, and Florida’s Anthony Richardson over the last two weeks, and they for some reason made sure to take selfies with all four quarterbacks.
