The 2025 NFL Draft kicks off next week in Green Bay, giving the Seahawks and 31 other NFL teams a chance to add talent to their roster. And with five picks in the first three rounds of this year’s draft, the Seahawks find themselves in a particularly strong position to improve their roster.
“Every year is totally different,” Seahawks general manager and president of football operations John Schneider said. “Having those five picks in the first 92, it allows you to maneuver a little bit depending on how other people see it. That’s one of the things that I’m trying to do down here.”
If the Seahawks use those five picks in the first three rounds—they have five more on Day 3 of the draft—they obviously hope to add five impact players, but another benefit of that kind of draft capital is it gives Schneider and company a lot of flexibility to make trades should the right opportunity arise.
“Initially, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to take five really good players,'” Schneider said. “But then you get in a situation where it’s like, ‘All right, that guy’s a starter, we should probably move to go get him,’ if you can. It depends on how other people see these guys. But yeah, it allows us the ability to just be more free throughout our draft process.”
So with the draft coming up soon, Seahawks.com is taking a position-by-position look at where things currently stand for the Seahawks, as well as draft analyst Rob Rang’s top draft prospects at each position. We’ll also look at Seattle’s draft history at each position over the past 15 drafts under Schneider.
So far we’ve covered the offensive line, defensive line and outside linebacker, tight end, and linebacker, running back, safety, and receiver, and today we focus on cornerback. Check back tomorrow when we wrap things up with quarterback.
Seattle’s 2025 Draft Picks: Round 1, No. 18 overall; Round 2, No. 50 overall; Round 2, No. 52 overall (from Pittsburgh); Round 3, No. 82 overall; Round 3, No. 92 overall (from Las Vegas); Round 4, No. 137 overall (compensatory pick); Round 5, No. 172 overall (compensatory pick); Round 5, No. 175 overall (compensatory pick); Round 7, No. 223 overall (from Pittsburgh); Round 7, No. 234 overall.
Cornerback draft history under John Schneider: Walter Thurmond (No. 111 overall, 2010); Richard Sherman (No. 154, 2011); Byron Maxwell (No. 173, 2011); Jeremy Lane (No. 172, 2012); Tharold Simon (No. 138, 2013);…
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