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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll says Drew Lock would have been first QB selected in 2022 NFL Draft

There were plenty of surprises in the 2022 NFL Draft, but one of the biggest was the Seattle Seahawks not selecting a quarterback in any round. With Russell Wilson now a member of the Denver Broncos, Seattle appears prepared to venture forward with Geno Smith, Drew Lock and Jacob Eason. Despite what everyone else thinks about this quarterback room, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is high on his guys. 

During a recent interview on Sports Radio KJR, Carroll said that if Lock was in the 2022 quarterback class, he’d be the first signal-caller off the board. 

“I think he’d have been the first guy picked, of quarterbacks anyway. He’d have been the first guy in this draft. I don’t have any hesitation saying that,” Carroll said, via Pro Football Talk.

There was just one quarterback selected in the first two rounds of this year’s draft, and that was Kenny Pickett out of Pittsburgh. Lock was drafted in the second round in 2019 by the Denver Broncos, and was the fourth quarterback to come off the board behind Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones and Dwayne Haskins. The Mizzou product was an intriguing prospect, as he and his big arm threw for 12,193…

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