In 2009, the Seattle Seahawks hired current Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator Gus Bradley as their defensive coordinator. Bradley, as we know, would end up creating one of the league’s most feared secondaries, the Legion of Boom. The draft picks were crucial to building the nucleus that Seattle’s defense would revolve around. In 2010, Seattle selected Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor in the first and fifth rounds of that year’s draft. The 2011 and 2012 drafts saw the additions of K.J. Wright, Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman, and Bruce Irvin.
Gus Bradley knows from prior experience that building a defense that reigns as the best in the league starts through the draft.