Seahawks all-time draft Day 3 dream team: An offense peppered with stars
The Seahawks assembled a stout offensive line
T: Floyd Womack, 2001, 4th round. You gotta love a guy who's called Pork Chop. At 6'4" and 328 pounds, I can't imagine how he got that moniker. Womack got into five games as a rookie, but started 10 in 2002. He moved to guard in 2006, then back to tackle in 2007 before playing his final three seasons at right guard. Of his 120 career games, 91 were for the Seahawks, 47 of those as the starter. I find it remarkable that in 120 games, he was flagged just five times for holding. Probably had a pork chop in both hands.
G: J.R. Sweezy, 2012, 7th round. I'm about to get deluged with complaints that the Seahawks drafted Sweezy as a defensive tackle. Hey, it's not my fault it took them a year to move him to the correct side of the scrimmage line. Long a favorite of the 12s, Sweezy logged 117 games in the league. Once he was moved to guard, his numbers were even more impressive. Of his 104 games at guard, 101 were starts. For the Hawks, he played 99 percent of the snaps on offense. Now that's reliability.
C: John Yarno, 1977, 4th round. No, he was no Max Unger, but then, how many other centers could compare to him? Yarno took over the starting role in his sophomore season and anchored the Hawks line for Jim Zorn through the strike-shortened 1982 season. He played 74 games with 62 starts, all for Seattle, then retired after the '82 season. Yarno has the distinction of being the first center ever drafted by Seattle. I guess Zorn just snapped the ball to himself in '76. Alright, Mr. Literal, calm down. It's a joke.
G: Edwin Bailey, 1981, 5th round. Yes, I could have gone with Mark Glowinski, but he moved on after three seasons. Drafted out of South Carolina State, Bailey was an immediate starter for Seattle. He was a key component of the Ground Knox offense of the '80s, opening holes at left guard for Curt Warner and keeping Dave Krieg's jersey clean. Bailey played his entire career with the Seahawks, finishing with 120 starts in 139 total games.
T: Ron Essink 1980, 10th round. Now here's a guy you don't see much of these days, a 6'6" 260-pound tackle taken in the tenth round out of Grand Valley State. Seattle experimented with him at tight end a bit as a rookie before moving him to left tackle full-time in 1981. That's a shame, as he scored on his only career catch, a soaring two-yard bomb against the Cowboys. The less said about the final score of that one, the better.
Essink never missed a start from 1981 through 1984 and started 12 games in 1985 before injuries forced him to the sidelines. He missed the entire 1986 season with more injuries, then had the decency to retire after being traded to the Cowboys in 1987. That, 12s, is what makes a Sehawks legendary.