The Seattle Seahawks retained both K.J. Wright and Mychal Kendricks in free agency earlier this offseason, but that didn’t stop them from similarly doubling down at the position in the draft. After selecting Utah linebacker Cody Barton on day two, the Seahawks added Washington LB Ben Burr-Kirven on the third day of the draft, with their one and only fifth round selection.
Like Barton—and almost all of this year’s linebacker class—Burr-Kirven has shortcomings as it relates to Seattle’s mold at linebacker. Though he clears almost all of their thresholds, he does come up considerably short in the vertical jump, a threshold that was once thought of as a non-starter.