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 9 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 17th Best Player On The Seahawks Roster Is….
#17: Jarran Reed, DT
Reed is the fourth rookie to show up on the list already, a testament to the quality of this year’s draft class, but also how much the team was in need of an infusion of top-end talent. Reed is definitely that. Universally considered the best run-stuffing interior linemen in this draft, he slipped to the second round because…….all he can do is stuff the run. With every team looking for impact pass-rushers, the Seahawks got a steal with Reed falling like he did.
What he gives Seattle is a block-eating two gap DT in much the same mold as former starter Brandon Mebane. There’s some talk that he could develop into a bit of a pass rush threat with some coaching, but even if he never does, he should start from day one and help make an already outstanding Seattle defense even better.
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Anytime you can get a long-term starter in the second round you’ve nailed your draft. With the names we’ve seen already on this list…… early returns appear to suggest that the Seahawks did just that.