When it comes to drafting QBs, Seattle passes
I was shocked the Seahawks didn't draft a quarterback this year. I shouldn't have been. The most consistent this team the past 14 years is its aversion to picking quarterbacks.
Geno Smith was the Seahawk who benefited most from last week’s draft.
The Seahawks held a pair of first-round picks for only the fifth time in franchise history. They picked four players in the first 52 selections, the first time the franchise had done that since 1977 when the Seahawks were in their second year of existence, and even with all that high-end draft capital the Seahawks opted against picking a quarterback for the 12th time in the past 14 years.
I think that’s what they call a trend, one that lies in direct opposition to what I expected when John Schneider became the team’s GM in 2010. He learned personnel under Ron Wolf, who famously made a habit of choosing a quarterback every year, and this is an era in which drafting a quarterback can provide an unprecedented economic advantage. In fact, that was something the Seahawks took full advantage of in one of the two instances they did draft a quarterback under Schnedier, and yet Seattle simply doesn’t do it. The Seahawks have drafted two quarterbacks since Schneider and Pete Carroll took over in 2010, fewest of any team in the league in that time. It’s worth poking at this fact for a little bit.