Loser: Seahawks leave us scratching our heads
It’s hard to say any Seattle Seahawks draft should be in the “loser” category. They have proved everyone wrong in the past. But what they did in the second round Friday made zero sense.
They had the second overall pick of the second round. Then they traded it to the Jaguars, who were just one spot below them, and watched as Jacksonville took the best offensive tackle in the draft. Seattle desperately needed an offensive tackle, and it could have taken Cam Robinson, plugged him immediately into the starting lineup and had an instant upgrade.
Instead, John Schneider and Co. did what the tend to do, which is invested into the defensive line by taking a player who fell because he gave questionable effort in college — Malik McDowell. This is a kid who could be a Pro Bowler, but he could bust just as plausibly. More than that, Seattle already has a darn good, deep defensive line.
This is a bold take, but this scribe will be surprised if McDowell does a whole lot for Seattle in the next couple of years, if at all.
Then later in the second round, the Seahawks finally addressed their offensive line taking center Ethan Pocic out of LSU. But if they were going that route, then Ohio State’s Pat Elfein was the logical choice.
These picks are head scratchers. They let the best offensive lineman walk right past their front door, then took a guy who would have been available much later while letting the top center in the draft fall to the Minnesota Vikings.