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The Seattle Seahawks have a historical past of buying and selling again within the NFL draft.
Buying and selling down has been one constant facet of the Seattle Seahawks’ drafts underneath common supervisor John Schneider. When the Seahawks landed the No. 27 choose, the operating joke main as much as the draft was Seattle wouldn't be selecting till day two. But, the digital draft gave us the uncommon sight of the Seahawks sitting with their first-round choose and making a variety.
The Seahawks chosen Texas Tech linebacker Jordyn Brooks with the No. 27 choose, however Schneider admitted that issues didn't go precisely as deliberate. Schneider famous after the first-round that the Seahawks have been minutes away from as soon as once more buying and selling again within the draft. Seattle had a deal in place with Inexperienced Bay earlier than the Packers later jumped one spot above them to do a take care of Miami.
“Really, had a commerce setting that up slightly bit to return slightly bit,” Schneider defined within the first-round press convention. “I can’t inform you the place. Fell by on the final minute and bang, he [Jordyn Brooks] was nonetheless there so it labored out nice.”
The Seahawks Had a Deal in Place With the Packers to Transfer Again to the No. 30 Choose
Schneider didn't reveal the specifics of the proposed commerce, however we will safely assume it was much like what the Dolphins landed. Inexperienced Bay traded their No. 30 choose together with a fourth-round choice (No. 136) to maneuver as much as No. 26 to take Utah State quarterback Jordan Love. The Packers have been unlikely to have been frightened that the Seahawks would take a quarterback however didn't wish to danger one other workforce leaping them to maneuver as much as choose Love.
Brooks was the highest-rated participant remaining on the Seahawks’ board and have become the choice. Schneider indicated that Brooks would have additionally been the goal if the workforce traded again to No. 30, however the Packers known as again on the final minute to tell them they discovered a greater deal.
“I used to be talking with [Packers GM Brian Gutekunst], too,” Schneider defined later within the workforce’s press convention. “He was cool, he was like, ‘Hey, sorry man, we received a greater deal.’ Then impulsively they have been on the clock. It occurs.”
Seattle Traded Up within the 2nd Spherical to Choose Darrell Taylor
The commerce with the Packers might have fallen by, however the Seahawks remained energetic within the commerce market throughout the draft. Seattle’s first commerce had the workforce surprisingly transferring up early on day two. The Seahawks traded up from No. 59 to No. 48 within the second spherical because of a commerce with the Jets that price Seattle a fourth-round choose.
The Seahawks have been focusing on Tennessee cross rusher Darrell Taylor who the workforce even thought-about taking with their first choice. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll believes it was one of many key strikes of the workforce’s draft.
“That was an enormous deal,” Carroll famous, per Seahawks.com. “As a result of we thought possibly we had missed our likelihood within the sense that we actually needed to get him on the frenzy group. After we have been in a position to cling by it and get him, that was an enormous choose for us. As I'm going down the record, each man had one thing sort of particular to him. However then once more, I used to be actually stunned that Alton [Robinson] was nonetheless there as a result of he might be an enormous assist for our soccer workforce.”
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