Kris Richard doesn’t deserve all the credit for the Legion of Boom’s success in Seattle but he was there since the beginning in 2010. That was the start of Seattle’s steady build that led to the best secondary in football for a number of years. In 2010 alone, the Seahawks drafted Earl Thomas at 14th overall, Walter Thurmond III at 111th overall, and Kam Chancellor at 133rd overall.
The next season, Richard helped draft Richard Sherman in the fifth and Byron Maxwell in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft.