Seahawks 25 best players, #16 Jordan Hill
By Dan Viens
The Seattle Seahawks roster is generally regarded as one of the best in the NFL top to bottom, but what about the talent level within the roster? Our co-editor Dan Viens takes a shot at ranking the team’s Top 25 players in order.
(PART 10 OF 25 IN A SERIES)
NFL Network does their Top 100 NFL players list every year, and this off season we’ve seen our share of analysts taking a crack at ranking the best rosters in the league. As we enter into the dog days of the off season, with the start of training camp still over a month away, I wanted to see what it would look like if I tried to rank the best 25 players the Seahawks have.
It was harder than I thought.
The top 10 was pretty easy. I would suspect most would end up with the same 10-12 names in some order or another. After that it gets dicey.
Among the challenges, how do you figure in the rookies and players who have never played a down in Seattle?
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My criteria was wide-ranging. Sometimes I went with pure talent, and other times I gave more weight to the players importance to the team. And in certain cases the players role…….played a role in my ranking. When in doubt, however, I would just ask myself “who’s the better player?”
So here we go……
The 16th Best Player On The Seahawks Roster Is….
#16: Jordan Hill, DT
Hill was a tough one. Of all the players on the roster, he might be the most difficult to figure out. Is he the player who exploded for 5.5 sacks in the final 4 games of the 2014 season? Or the injury-prone one who hasn’t touched a QB since despite playing in 10 games last year, including one start?
Hill appears to have everything you want in a penetrating interior lineman. At 6’1″ and just over 300 pounds he can be stout at the point of attack but also quick off the ball, and his ability to pursue plays down the line is outstanding. The question for Hill is one of durability and “want to.”
This year, Hill will have to make a statement in training camp. With Ahtyba Rubin signed to a new extension, and the Seahawks spending two draft picks on DT’s this year, if Hill doesn’t stand out early in August, forget about making this list next year, he might not even be on the Seahawks roster.
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It’s definitely a make or break year for the #16 entry on our top 25 list.