Seahawks all-time Mount Rushmore: 2020 edition
By Lee Vowell
Walter Jones
Walter Jones helped form one of the best left sides of any offensive line in NFL history when he and now-also a Hall of Famer Steve Hutchinson played for Seattle in the 2000s. Jones was the left tackle and made the Pro Bowl nine times in his 12-year career. Four times he was named First-Team All-Pro by the Associated Press.
Jones played his entire career in Seattle. Between 1998 and 2007, Jones missed just four games. Even in his final year of 2008, Jones made the Pro Bowl. He never stopped being very good. Jones made the NFL’s All-2000s team too. He was great for so long it is easy to forget just how good he was.
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But imagine, 12s, if you will, just how good Marshawn Lynch would have been in the early 2010s if he had a young Walter Jones blocking for him. Lynch was great enough but unlike Shaun Alexander, another great Seahawks back who actually did run behind Jones, Lynch churned out a lot of yards on his own. With Jones, Lynch might have led the NFL in rushing.
Jones was the third full-time Seahawk to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.