Re-grading the Seahawks first round draft picks under Pete Carroll
By Lee Vowell
2019, 29th overall – L.J. Collier: D-
I don’t know what happened with L.J. Collier in 2021. He went from starting every game in 2020 and wasn’t awful (though not great either) to being a healthy scratch in most games at the start of last year. Seattle couldn’t trade him as no team would likely want him based on what Seattle was doing with him, and it was too expensive for the Seahawks to release him.
When Collier did play in 2021, he wasn’t bad either. There must be something going on that fans can’t see. Maybe Collier doesn’t follow direction well or doesn’t want to. But Collier has one more season under his current deal to show he can be a good player or he might be out of the league. In other words, he would be a complete first-round bust.
2020, 27th overall – Jordyn Brooks: A-
It may be too early to judge Brooks but I am going to assume, based on his 2021 performance, that Brooks is going to be the best first-round pick that Seattle had made since 2010. In fact, Brooks might be so good in 2022, and used more aggressively, that fans don’t miss Bobby Wagner as much.
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Brooks is super fast, a freakishly good tackler, has a linebacker’s mentality in that he seems to find offense that anyone would dare come into his area on the field and will likely get 5 sacks in 2022. He should have been a Pro Bowler in 2021. My guess is he will be in 2022.