During the mid-to-late 2010s, the Seattle Seahawks struggled to find the same draft gems they found in the early part of the decade. One reason the team began to decline by the early 2020s is that the drafts in previous years had not been great.
This is especially true of early-round choices. Rashaad Penny was hurt too much to be good. LJ Collier was too bad to help. Malik McDowell (a second-round choice, but the team's first pick in 2017) was too addicted to ATVs to be productive. Germain Ifedi was Seattle's first-round choice in 2016 and never became what the team hoped.