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Okay. It's 12 days till the 2014 NFL draft. If you're like me, you've read just about every draft prediction/prognosis concerning our Super Bowl champions. We currently have 6 picks in this year's draft. Here are where our picks fall at present:

Round 1 (32nd pick)
Round 2 (64th pick)
Round 3 (traded to Minnesota for Percy Harvin)
Round 4 (132nd pick)
Round 5 (146th pick from Oakland for Matt Flynn)
Round 5 (172nd pick)
Round 6 (208th pick)
Round 7 (traded to Oakland for Terrelle Pryor)

Initial Thoughts

First off, if there's one thing you can predict about the Seahawks and the draft is how unpredictable they can be. So there's that. Secondly, the Seahawks love their draft picks, and it has been well speculated that if the opportunity arises the Seahawks might well consider trading their 1st round pick (the 32nd pick) to a team looking to move back into the 1st round to put themselves back into position to possibly draft, say, a QB. For the Seahawks to do this they'd have to:

a) not be in love with a particular player that is available to them with the 32nd pick
b) get back a combination of draft picks (2nd rounder plus a later rounder...3rd, 4th...I don't know)

Practically no one has the Seahawks trading up in the draft to get a player they might covet. If they do that, they will again have surprised us all. But I just don't see that happening in such a deeply talented draft pool.

What is particularly interesting about this draft is that it seems to be heavily weighted in the very positions the Hawks are looking to shore up, that being WR and OLmen. The latest buzz has certain draft "experts" speculating that the Hawks might well be interested in these WR's and OLmen with the 32nd pick:

WR

--Cody Latimer (one of the rising players in the draft; fits what you think they'd want in a WR)
--Donte Moncrief (spoken as someone who might fit Hawks WR mold)
--Kelvin Benjamin (stock falling a bit, but still a tempting physical specimen)
--Allen Robinson (this one seems less likely to me at 32 from what I've read)

OLmen

--Xavier Su'a-Filo (projects as OG though played OT his last year at UCLA)
--Joel Bitonio (OT/OG rising prospect on draft boards; possible Breno/Carpenter replacement)

Of course this is all pure idle speculation, but this is what I seem to have gathered from my collective readings of the draft tea-leaves so far as concerns our 32nd pick. The WR's mentioned all have the bigger size that you'd think the Hawks would be looking for. Again, Cody Latimer (if you're to put any stock in such speculations) is the guy that seems to be generating the most Seahawk buzz of late.

As concerns the OL (assuming that no other real blue-chip OLman falls to us at #32), these two guys seem to be generating the most Seahawk buzz of late as possible picks at the 32nd spot in the draft.

The wildcard positional pick for the Hawks at #32 seems to be DLman. This is the name that seems to have come up the most when considering potential availability at the 32nd spot:

DLmen

--Ra'Shede Hageman

The buzz about Hageman is that he's one of those huge 5-tech linemen who could potentially play either DT or DE for the Hawks much like Red Bryant did. Who knows?

I guess you could possibly envision the Hawks drafting a TE in the 2nd round (especially if we trade down and then find ourselves with two 2nd round picks). Austen Sefarian-Jenkins comes to mind, but what do I know?

I must say that I'd love to see us draft a WR and OLman with our first two picks, be it our 1st and 2nd round pick at present, or be it with both our 2nd round picks assuming we trade out of the 1st round.

As for the rest of the draft? Who the hell knows, other than we probably won't see them drafting a QB or RB, or so it seems at present.

That's my take from all I've gathered at present.

Any thoughts of your own?

I don't pay too much attention to college football but for what positions I think we should draft at each spot it'd be:

1: OG (had WR until we got Sidney Rice back for cheap)
2: WR
4: DT
5: DE
5: CB
6: OT

We have to have a guard, an offensive tackle, and a receiver out of this draft. The guard needs to be a starter, the tackle depends on how the coaches feel about Michael Bowie. The rest is depth and BPA.

only depth.... depth won us a superbowl!

This is easily the quietest draft discussion [not just here, but everywhere] that I've ever seen for the Seahawks. It's weird trying to predict what the team will do when they're drafting so late, and without any truly dire needs anywhere I don't know what to expect. I'll still watch the draft because it's fun but I was more interested in seeing us lock up Earl and Sherm, which we've done [thankfully].

This team's going to be good for a long time.

Sweezo wrote:This is easily the quietest draft discussion [not just here, but everywhere] that I've ever seen for the Seahawks. It's weird trying to predict what the team will do when they're drafting so late, and without any truly dire needs anywhere I don't know what to expect. I'll still watch the draft because it's fun but I was more interested in seeing us lock up Earl and Sherm, which we've done [thankfully].

This team's going to be good for a long time.

I was kind of hoping they'd also get Doug Baldwin taken care of at a reasonable price for another 3 years or so. You could argue that he was quietly our most productively efficient receiver last year. He's also well liked, works hard, just a guy I'd like to have for awhile.

I was listening to sports radio in the background this morn and Rick Neuheisal was on. He was very high on Xavier Su'a-Filo. He recruited him, of course, but he claims he's a special player the Hawks could plug in at guard for years to come if they chose to draft him.

But yeah, we're not desperate going into this draft. A nice position to be in.

The Rams have taken Greg Robinson and Aaron Donald. Damn...that team is going to be tough to beat.

Sweezo wrote:The Rams have taken Greg Robinson and Aaron Donald. Damn...that team is going to be tough to beat.

If we didn't need a guard before...

Okay Hawks fans...11 picks to go...who's it gonna be?

--Xavier Su'a-Filo
--Joel Bitonio
--Cody Latimer
--Kelvin Benjamin

Morgan Moses is still there too. If nobody takes Bridgewater before we're on the clock I could see a trade down.

nuke the whales wrote:Morgan Moses is still there too. If nobody takes Bridgewater before we're on the clock I could see a trade down.

Trade down almost seems inevitable. I'd be slightly more surprised if we didn't trade down than if we did.

Bulltalk wrote:

nuke the whales wrote:Morgan Moses is still there too. If nobody takes Bridgewater before we're on the clock I could see a trade down.

Trade down almost seems inevitable. I'd be slightly more surprised if we didn't trade down than if we did.

Same. There's a decent number of good WR and some G/T types. I can see someone trading up to grab a QB.

4 picks left, no guards off the board yet, Bridgewater and Carr still there if somebody wants to trade up

For some reason a little bummed Kelvin Benjamin was picked there.

Anyone else watching the seahawks' war room stream from nfl.com? Looks like Schneider is on the phone.

OT from Nevada
or the Indiana WR

TRADE! So, Minnesota's taking Bridgewater, I take it?

I wonder if we got our third rounder back
Nope, looks like we got a 4th

I knew it. I'd spend time watching the draft, us the last pick, and when it finally came to our pick we'd trade it.

Oh well, seems smart to have done so.

well thought OP by BT.

I like the trade. I'm hoping for some OL and a DE/WR here in the 2nd.