Seahawks April Fooled: 5 biggest busts in Seattle draft history

The Seahawks have made some excellent draft choices in the history of the franchise. But they also have made some terrible ones. Here are five of the worst.

The Seahawks have been a franchise since 1976. Since then, Seattle is 355-336-1. They have made the playoffs 19 times in 44 seasons. That isn’t bad and overall, Seattle has been a really good franchise. Since the 2010 season, the Seahawks have missed the playoffs just twice.

Successful NFL teams are built, of course, on excellent draft picks. A team cannot do well long=term with just one good year of a draft, they need several seasons consistently of overall good choices. Just this decade the Seahawks have chosen players like Russell Wilson and Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman and Bobby Wagner. How many of those players will end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Maybe all four.

Of course, Seattle has also made some wise free agent moves that have contributed to recent success, players like Michael Bennett. Free-agent pickups are usually only good for so long. Home-grown talent is the best way to build a team. And the Seahawks would not have had their recent run of success without great drafts.

That said, there have been times in Seattle history where some of the playoff droughts can be directly related to players who didn’t turn out as well as Seattle had hoped they would. So in honor of April Fool’s Day, the joke was on Seattle with the following poor choices of draftees. These are the worst five picks in Seahawks history.