Seahawks 25 best players, #8 Kam Chancellor
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.
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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 8th Best Player On The Seahawks Roster is….
#8: Kam Chancellor, SS
They just don’t build safties like Kam Chancellor. 6’3″ 232 sculpted pounds of muscle, grit, and anger. Chancellor’s highlight reel of bone-jarring hits rivals that of any player in NFL history. His impact was felt unexpectedly last year when he chose to holdout through all of training camp and through the first two games of the regular season. The team went 0-2 in his absence and never quite made up that ground.
6’3″ 232 sculpted pounds of muscle, grit, and anger.
For a guy who was one of the first core building blocks of the Pete Carroll era, and a locker room leader, his contract dispute in 2015 came out of left field, blind-siding fans and team officials in much the same way he hits receivers trying to roam the middle of the field.
He ended up returning to the team without a new deal, and he’s done everything right since then. By all appearances, he’s been assured that his contract can be reworked after this season, when he’ll have one year remaining. He’s attended every off season practice and has openly stated he’s all-in. This is a huge boost for the Hawks defense, because a healthy, committed, and motivated Chancellor is a dangerous weapon.
Does he have his faults? Sure. His inability to cover tight ends last year was a massive Achilles heel for the Hawks. But Carroll and his staff have a different plan this year that should lessen those responsibilities for Chancellor and allow him the freedom to do what he does best; seek and destroy ball-carriers and receivers.
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