Change your heart or die: Evaluating Seahawks 2023 draft class

Seahawks 5th round, pick 154: C Olesagun Oluwatimi, Michigan

Like Morris, Oluwatimi is a smart, acclaimed player who is better than their combine results. It's much easier for me to understand the Oluwatimi pick, though, because there's no questioning what his role would be on this team. There's no moving him to guard with Lewis, Haynes, Brown, and Bradford on the roster, who are all bigger, stronger, and faster. He's a center, plain and simple.

And he's a very good center, at that, having played the position for the Air Force Academy, the Virginia Cavaliers, and the Michigan Wolverines, winning a Rimington Award after being a finalist for the award the year prior, and calling all the signals for Michigan, a top program in the country for offensive linemen.

He's not the greatest athlete in the world, at least at the NFL level, and there are questions about his upside in the run game, since he is a bit undersized, as well, at 6'3" on a good day and about 310 lbs.

But forget all of that for a second and remember that Seattle was just fine rolling with Austin Blythe, who seems to be the floor for the uber-intelligent Oluwatimi. There's also a common thread here among Seahawks centers — Carroll doesn't seem to mind below-average athletes at the position so long as they can sense the rush well and adapt to it both pre-play and mid-play.

There's something about Oluwatimi that reminds me of Chris Spencer, for those of you who have been watching the Seahawks for a while now. Maybe the top-end upside isn't quite there, but there's consistency here, and if there's anything you want from your offensive line, it's consistency and predictability.

Grade: A