RENTON, Wash. -- It wasn’t just the analysts who predicted the Seattle Seahawks could take a quarterback early in this year’s NFL draft.
The Seahawks themselves said it could happen, with general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll telling Geno Smith and Drew Lock after the season the same thing they told reporters at the scouting combine: That the rare opportunity they had to pick fifth overall made it something the team would have to consider.
Not only did the Seahawks pass on taking a quarterback who could’ve posed an eventual threat to Smith’s starting job, they got him some help by taking the first receiver off the board in Jaxon Smith-Njigba at No.