You’ve heard the story 1,000,000 instances already. The Seattle Seahawks had loads of wage cap house and proceeded to signal one offensive lineman, Josh Jones, who’s in any other case spent the previous two years as a backup.
Seattle introduced in a number of veteran linemen for visits, together with Teven Jenkins, Lucas Patrick, and Dillon Radunz. All of them left with out contracts and have since signed with different groups.
So what’s the plan for the Seahawks? You need to in all probability count on the Seahawks to lean on their latest and future draft picks.
On the NFL’s annual league assembly, Schneider made it clear to reporters that including a veteran offensive lineman within the coming weeks is unlikely.
“It in all probability received’t be till after the draft that’s a cap casualty man or one thing like that,” Schneider stated (by way of Seahawks.com). “We introduced a number of guys via, it simply hasn’t been a match.”
If that isn’t a transparent indicator of how the Seahawks felt concerning the FA market as an entire exterior of Will Fries, I don’t know what’s.
The Seahawks, in fact, do have latest draft picks on the roster who’re nonetheless growing. Heart Olu Oluwatimi and guard Anthony Bradford are getting into their third seasons, Christian Haynes and Sautoa Laumea are of their second seasons, whereas the undrafted Jalen Sundell seemed like a possible gem of an addition in his rookie marketing campaign. With (one other) new teaching employees on the offensive line and at offensive coordinator, Schneider alluded to how OL coach John Benton and others on employees view Seattle’s youthful expertise.
“I do know all people’s like, ‘You want offensive linemen,’’ Schneider stated. “Yeah, we do wish to add to our offensive line—but it surely’s cool to have these guys are available from the skin and be like, ‘Shoot, I liked Christian popping out, I liked Taoa.’ They like the blokes.”
“You guys haven’t actually seen Jalen but,” he added. “He got here in and so they performed very well. He performed a number of positions. The employees actually likes him. He’s good, dependable, he’s robust. That’s going to be fascinating. These two guys, that’s going to be fairly fascinating there.”
In the event you’ve made it this far, the clear method is to draft and develop. The Seahawks have solidified their beginning deal with spots with Charles Cross and a (hopefully wholesome) Abe Lucas, it’s all a matter of how they method the inside OL. Between the picks (and Sundell) and the longer term picks made in subsequent month’s draft, this would be the way forward for Seattle’s offensive line. It’s only a matter of lastly making it work.
