Seattle Seahawks: Rounds 2 and 3 Draft Preview
Andrew Elderbaum
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Quarterbacks
The final elephant in the room is the quarterback position. Will Levis (Kentucky) has become the real-life Bo Callahan and slid all the way out of round one. I think teams were right to pass on him, but the similarities to another big-armed but turnover-prone QB Seattle likes are tough to ignore.
Their Drew Lock fascination means the possibility of the Seattle Seahawks taking Levis can’t be dismissed. Geno Smith’s deal is easy to move on from, and Seattle might think Levis’s value at 37 is too good to pass on.
Finally there’s Hendon Hooker (Tennessee). Hooker’s age and injury complicate things a bit. As a prospect, he’s the perfect protégé for Geno. A good athlete, he can move in the pocket and create when things break down.
Hooker has a big arm with good touch and excels at the deep ball. Oddly enough, he struggles more when things don’t break down, and he has time. His ability to make the right reads and hit on short to intermediate routes is more suspect.
The big knock on him is age, Hooker is 25 years old, so the team that takes him has to hope he can progress quickly. Sitting behind Geno for a year or two wouldn’t be optimum, but he suffered a knee injury in Tennessee’s second-to-last game and will need to spend some time on Injured Reserve.
That’s a problem if the Seattle Seahawks are trying to max out a pro-ready prospect on his rookie deal. My guess is Schneider and Carroll feel the same way and will wait until later to take a developmental quarterback prospect.
These are the players and positions I’d expect to see the Seahawks target tonight in Round 2. On to Round 3.