In what was a rare situation for Pete Carroll’s Seahawks, Damien Lewis arrived in training camp with a starting spot in his hands. John Schneider admitted as much when, two days after Lewis was selected, Seattle released D.J. Fluker. After the incumbent starter was let go, Schneider said of the situation at right guard, “Once we drafted Damien everybody felt like we were drafting a starting right guard in the National Football League. He’s just a man.”
While Schneider was right to be optimistic about Lewis’s future as a starter in the NFL and move on from Fluker, without any rookie minicamps or OTAs to work with, it would be difficult to get a sense of Lewis’s immediate transition to the pros.