Success comes with a price. Pete Carroll’s ability to develop long, day three cornerbacks into studs exploited an NFL inefficiency. Then the market corrected itself. Corners of the Seahawks prototype became the new trend as various teams tried to incorporate Seattle’s press cover-3.
That hype among front offices has somewhat dwindled from the peak “we need a Legion of Boom” days. But teams are far less likely to sleep on the next Richard Sherman type. The most casual 12 knows that John Schneider takes outside corners with arms at 32-plus inchs. In short: finding a Seahawks-type CB is harder than it used to be.