Seahawks April Fooled: 5 biggest busts in Seattle draft history
By Lee Vowell
1. Aaron Curry, 2009
High draft picks need to be good, clearly. Aaron Curry was drafted fourth overall in 2009 and was not good. Like McGwire, the Seahawks could have taken a number of other linebackers, like Brian Cushing, and probably made the right pick. Curry wasn’t the right choice.
In 2009, there was no rookie salary cap so Seattle paid Curry $34 million before he ever played for Seattle. As it was Curry played two full seasons with the Seahawks before playing part of a third. In his 35 career games with Seattle, Curry had just 5.5 sacks and 19 quarterback hits. This for a linebacker that was supposed to be athletic and generate a pass rush.
After leaving Seattle, Curry played just another season and a half as other teams realized Curry wasn’t very good. That said, the 2009 draft, especially the first round, produced a lot of players who did not live up to their potential. But Seattle was a team in transition. In the mid-2000s, Seattle was constantly in the playoffs but later in the decade Seattle needed to get players to rebuild.
Next. On to Plan B for pass rushers for Seahawks. dark
That would happen eventually, especially as Pete Carroll and John Schneider came on board the next year and began guiding Seattle to a championship. But they would do so without Curry. One has to wonder what Carroll and Schnider would have done had they had the fourth pick in the 2009 draft. Surely, they wouldn’t have taken Curry.