Ranking The Seahawks’ Top Day Three Draft Selections
Like many teams in the NFL, the Seahawks have been able to find their fair share of Pro Bowl, All-Pro, MVP and sometimes even Hall of Fame-level talent in the first round of the draft. Walter Jones, Shaun Alexander, Cortez Kennedy, and Earl Thomas are just some of the names that come to mind.
The bigger challenge, though, is finding that level of talent in the draft’s later rounds — particularly the fourth round and later. Teams that are able to fill their rosters with young (and oftentimes cheap) talent give themselves a better opportunity to compete at a high level for years to come, as we saw with the Seahawks and their two Super Bowl appearances over the past decade.
This week, Corbin Smith of Sports Illustrated ranked the top 10 Day 3 draft selections in Seahawks draft history. At number 10 was G Edwin Bailey, who was taken in the fifth round of the 1981 NFL Draft and made 121 starts over 11 seasons with the Seahawks.
“In more than a decade with the team, he participated in four playoff runs with the Seahawks and played a critical role in helping star running back Curt Warner rush for 1,000-plus yards four times in the 80s,” Smith said. “As a key cog in the trenches, the team finished in the top six in scoring three times with him as a full-time starter.”