Lately, a recurring theme among Seahawks fans that we’ve been discussing a lot at Field Gulls recently is the claim that “Pete Carroll and John Schneider are bad at drafting now.” The claim is largely built on the lack of great finds from 2013-2017, a span of five drafts. Working against Seattle the most right now is that 2013-2014 indeed had few rewards.
Part of that is due to the fact of the Seahawks moving first round picks for veterans in 2013 (and again in 2015) and moving down from the first round to the second round in 2014, as well as 2017.