Seahawks all-time dream team defense by position

LOB

OK, so maybe the Seahawks secondary hasn’t always been known as the Legion of Boom, but I am writing this in 2019 so LOB it is. There are two members of the secondary that have played in the Pete Carroll era. Easily, there could have been three. But I am not including Kam Chancellor on this list because a Hall of Fame player is beating him out.

Cornerback

Richard Sherman

Marcus Trufant

Sherman is the easy choice. Though he has since left to play for the 49ers, Sherman is simply the greatest cornerback in the history of the Seahawks. He was a three-time First-Team All-Pro and quarterbacks simply refused to throw to his side of the field. Sherman allowed Pete Carroll to run the defense around him and this helped lead the 2013 and 2014 Seattle defenses to be among the best in NFL lore.

Trufant is just a slight bit better than Shawn Springs. Springs spent 7 seasons in Seattle and had 20 interceptions. Besides that, he was a productive tackler with 424 tackles. Trufant was better, though. He had 21 interceptions and 644 tackles and played his entire 10 year career in Seattle.

Safeties

Earl Thomas

Kenny Easley

Look at those two names above and imagine them in the Seahawks secondary at the same time and realize this would be the best safety duo in NFL history. Easley is already in the Pro Football Hal of Fame. Thomas should be there one day too. Both deserve that.

I hate that Thomas is not in Seattle anymore but his time was done. He wasn’t bought into the team anymore and would not have been a good leader for young players.

Easley just was better than Chancellor, but I don’t want to dismiss Kam. Chancellor didn’t have the raw ability of Easley because few humans ever have. Easley had 32 picks in 7 seasons and he was known as more of an intimdator than a coverage guy. Chancellor hit like Eadley but he didn’t have Easley’s coverage skills.

I have four of the 11 defensive players on this list playing under current coach Pete Carroll. This isn’t simply being short-sighted. Seattle’s defenses of this decade have been among the best in franchise history. The players who made up this decade’s defenses are clearly among the best in the Seahawks’ defensive history too.