If you’re doing a mock draft and you allow for trades, you’re just not doing it right if you don’t have the Seattle Seahawks trading down at least once. Hey, maybe this is the year it doesn’t happen, maybe John Schneider and Pete Carroll trade up! Anything is possible, but just because anything is possible doesn’t mean you shouldn’t account for the most likely outcome. The most likely outcome is that the Seahawks will trade down.
But maybe your mock draft doesn’t account for trades.
That’s the case in ESPN’s Mel Kiper’s latest mock draft, which has Seattle taking Florida outside linebacker Jachai Polite with the 21st overall pick.