Whether the Seahawks keep their first-round pick is one of the intriguing questions as Thursday's NFL Draft nears.
The Seahawks’ history, and their stated desire to try to get some picks in the second and third rounds — they currently don’t have any on the draft’s second day — lead to the easy conclusion that Seattle probably won’t actually make a selection at No. 18.
But then, this has already been a different sort of offseason for the Seahawks, who also have talked rather frankly of altering their draft strategy a bit to enforce some more stringent criteria for prospects to make it onto their board.