The Seattle Seahawks have clearly made a lot of moves this offseason and disassembled what we thought the offense would look like next season. The team will have a new starting quarterback, and two of the three wide receiver targets from last year are also gone. The defense has remained mostly intact, though.
This could imply that Seattle is going to draft offense early in the 2025 NFL draft. Seattle has done little to address its most glaring weakness after the last many seasons, the offensive line. The team lost free-agent left guard Laken Tomlinson and replaced him with, well...no one yet. General manager John Schneider has made a few pitiful attempts at signing a veteran guard but with no luck.
What is left on the free-agent market is mostly players the Seahawks should not want. The problem has been Schneider and his scouting team have done a poor job of knowing which interior offensive linemen to choose in the last decade, and Seattle has not developed any IOL once the lineman was chosen.
One Seahawks expert believes the team should not take a wide receiver first in the 2025 NFL draft
Schneider could, however, choose to go with the best player available at pick number 18 in the draft. Even if the Seahawks trade back, there is still a decent chance Schneider goes with the best player available. But if this player happens to be a wide receiver, Seattle Sports 710 AM's Brock Huard says taking that position would be a mistake.
In fact, Huard said that would equal an F grade in his opinion.
Huard said, "I don’t think any of these (receivers) are worthy (at No. 18). Somebody at Texas who had to emerge in the second half of a season – and he did, so I’m not ripping him – but that’s not a first-round pick with the needs that you have on your roster. And Tetairoa McMillan ran like 4.52 to 4.55. He can jump out of the gym and is a super athletic guy, but he is not the most physical and not the twitchiest...That would be an ‘F’ for me."
The problem is Seattle does need to get younger at the position after the team traded DK Metcalf to the Pittsburgh Steelers this offseason. The top end of the Seahawks wide receiver depth chart is now Jaxon Smith-Njigba (who is quite young at 23), but then Cooper Kupp (who will be 32 years old by Week 1 of next season) and Marquez Valdes-Scantling (who will turn 31 early in the 2025 season).
Taking a wide receiver would make sense only because the position group is getting older, but Huard is also likely correct. There are no receivers in this year's draft class around where the Seahawks would choose that would be close to a certain of being a very productive professional football player.
Seattle needs to rebuild its offensive line first, and take a receiver in the second or third round. If the Seahawks cannot block well, it doesn't matter who the receivers are.
