Seattle Seahawks Mock Draft: 7 Rounds

Three weeks from today the Seattle Seahawks will be prepping to select their first prospect in this year’s draft (provided they don’t trade into the first round, which is highly unlikely). That means we’re in the homestretch of Mock Draft Season! Some may think the sheer volume of mock drafts this time of year is overkill, but if you were one of them you wouldn’t be reading this.  Perhaps more than any team in the league, the Hawks fun to mock, because just when you think you know what to expect they prove you wrong.

Player rankings and Big Boards change daily this time of year based on pro day results, pre-draft visits and in some cases off-field revelations, but at this point in the process there are some consistent trends in how the names fall into place.  I started working through Seahawk 7-round mocks a month ago,  Here’s my latest crack at it.

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I use first-pick.com and their mock simulator.  I discovered them last year and love the way the program is set up.  You can work through computer simulation either pick-by-pick, 5 players at a time, or you can simply skip ahead to your teams next pick. You can draft as any team in the league, and they have every selection accurately updated to include trades and compensation picks.

I’ve noticed a couple of glaring mistakes in where they have players ranked, but those seem to be rare.  For the most part I see players consistently picked where most would agree they should be.

One very cool feature is prior to each of your picks you receive trade offers, all of which seem realistic based on the NFL Trade Value Chart.  Last year I played around with a lot of trade-down scenarios, since Seattle was light on picks heading into the draft. You can also target higher picks and try to trade up if you want to.

For the purposes of this mock, however, I went strictly by the board, using all 11 of the Hawks picks exactly where they sit.  Next week I’ll tackle one with a trade-up scenario.

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