RENTON — NFL coaches, general managers and scouts often say you need to wait a few years to fairly judge a draft class.
The reality, though, is that sometimes really elite draft picks — and classes — declare themselves pretty quickly.
No one really needed long to know that the Seahawks struck gold in 2010 (Earl Thomas, Russell Okung, Golden Tate, Kam Chancellor), 2011 (Richard Sherman, K.J. Wright), or maybe most notably in 2012 (Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Bruce Irvin).
And maybe the quick progression of many of those players spoiled Seahawks fans into wanting to make equally snap judgments about some of the team’s draft classes since then.