I personally give this draft an A. This draft might compete with 2011 as the third best draft of the PC/JS era.
I think Clark has all the God-given gifts to be a star if he takes well to coaching. I'm not saying he's going to be the next JJ Watt but he shares a lot of rare traits with Watt, namely his core strength, his heavy hands, his nastiness, his ability to pursue, and his phenomenal ability to get his hands on passes.
Lockett can separate almost at will and on day one will have some of the best feet in the NFL. I think having a squirrelly WR will work well with a rabbit QB on those scramble drill plays. And even if he bombs at WR somehow, he will be a very good kick returner. The only tough part will be getting him on the field since he's somewhat redundant with the existing talent.
I think the biggest story of the preseason in 2015 will be if Lockett can prove to our coaching staff that he is more than a return guy in 2015. This guy is, in my opinion, already the most purely talented WR on our team. This is the kind of player that you have to find a way to get the ball in his hands as much as possible. I think right now, Seattle views him as being a backup WR in 2015, but if he dominates the 2015 preseason the way Russell Wilson did in 2012, minds can be changed.
Glow seems like a natural fit for Cable. His tape looks a lot like JR Sweezy, and his combine measurements were among the best of any guard in the draft. He plays nasty too. Really like that pick.
Poole kind of seemed like a whiff to me, but also seemed like a guy you could maybe coach into being another James Carpenter if we get lucky.
Sokoli has everything he needs to be another JR Sweezy story. Hopefully between these three guys, we get two decent guards which would allow Bailey to focus on playing left tackle, which I think is his most natural position.
Gwacham is basically Konz 2.0. He will have to break in on special teams as the team figures out what kind of role he'll play, similar to the route they took with BJ Daniels.
Tye Smith has a slight frame, very similar to Paul Richardson, but if Smith can add some weight this pick could be a steal. Smith is a born playmaker. Pretend Earl Thomas is 6'0" and move him to corner and you'd have the player Tye Smith was in college.
Ryan Murphy seems to be a hell of a football player. I guess he fell in the draft because he drops too many easy interceptions. He has 4.48 speed at 6'1" and is a very natural talent at safety. Looking into him a bit more it's kind of shocking that he fell this far based on talent, especially in a DB class that was reputed to be so weak.
I can't comment on the UDFA group, like every UDFA group you really need to see them in the preseason to know if any of them are hidden gems. I do like that Seattle got a fairly high number of UDFA this year.
On top of that, they also got Jimmy Graham essentially or the #31 pick, which even when factoring salary, is a way better value than any player that was available at that pick.
Perhaps more than any previous draft, Seattle targeted playmakers. Graham, Clark, Lockett, Smith and Murphy, all of them are big time playmakers. Seattle is the best team in the NFL in large part because they tend to have a much higher batting average on playmaker types than most other teams do, so for that reason I'm expecting this draft to yield a ton of value to the Seahawks, both short and long term.
Pete and John made little secret of how geeked they were for the 2015 draft back in October and November of last year. I thought that was kind of odd, given that this was a very weak draft in general, but now that I've seen the players they've walked away with, I think their enthusiasm was completely justified.
