The Seattle Seahawks have been relatively quiet about their draft plans, but they do enter with more needs than usual - particularly in the trenches. Here's all the latest draft day news and rumors surrounding the Seahawks:
Seahawks targeting A'Shawn Robinson?
Offensive line is widely considered to be Seattle's biggest need heading into the draft, but they're also looking into upgrading their defensive line. NFL Network's Mike Mayock think the Seahawks will go that route on draft night and select Alabama defensive tackle A'Shawn Robinson:
The Seahawks lost Brandon Mebane in free agency. Robinson can step in and help the Seahawks stop the run, and he can also push the pocket in the pass game.
Robinson had 42 tackles with 3.5 sacks last season.
Seattle looking to convert more defensive linemen to offensive line?
The Seahawks are notorious for drafting defensive linemen and turning them into offensive lineman at the pro level, and while some think that has contributed to them having a lackluster offensive line, the Seattle Times' Bob Condotta reports that they are likely to do the same thing this year:
Judging by the discussion on social media and talk radio, the majority hope among Seahawks fans for the upcoming NFL draft is that the team will get a few offensive linemen who can immediately help a group that had its issues in 2015.
But as Seattle coach Pete Carroll and John Schneider reiterated on Tuesday in about as much detail as they ever have on the subject, finding NFL-ready offensive linemen is harder than ever with the proliferation of the spread offense at every level.
“It’s just the style of play is different,’’ Carroll said during the team’s pre-draft news conference Tuesday. “There’ll be guys that we’re looking at right now that have never been in a (three-point) stance before. They’ve always been in two-point stances. So there are transitions that have to take place.
As Carroll and Schneider said again Tuesday, one reason they have looked to convert defensive linemen is that they increasingly see some of the most talented players choose to play defense rather than offense at lower levels.
“There’s a lot of kids that if they’re playing both ways, defensive line and offensive line, defensive line is just a little bit sexier, they’re going to go that route,’’ Schneider said. “So those numbers (of offensive linemen) come down. So that’s why you’ve seen us in the past try to make a couple of these conversions, because you can’t just go out and pick them off a tree in the backyard.”
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