The Seattle Seahawks need interior offensive line help this offseason. Left tackle Charles Cross is good, but maybe not great. If right tackle Abe Lucas can stay healthy, he is fine, too. The rest of the line? A mess.
The presumed starting group entering 2025 would be Olu Oluwatimi at center and likely Anthony Bradford at right guard. Left guard is still a mystery. Oluwatimi was not terrible in his limited time and allowed zero sacks in 260 pass-block reps. He allowed just eight total pressures as well. Not shabby, and he wasn't bad at run-blocking either.
The main issue was right guard which was a rotating number of players, none of whom were good. Left guard was manned by veteran Laken Tomlinson, but he is past 30 years old and a free agent this offseason. Those two spots need the most help, assuming Seattle wants to stick with Oluwatimi at center.
CBS Sports has some great advice that the Seattle Seahawks are extremely unlikely to follow
This is one reason that a recent article by CBS Sports about one free agent each team should prioritize signing is so wrong for the Seahawks. The idea is not a bad one, mind you, but the signing is something Seattle and general manager John Schneider are extremely unlikely to do. Schneider is clearly not going to draft an interior lineman high, and he isn't going to spend a lot in free agency.
The player CBS Sports says Seattle should chase is Indianapolis Colts free agent center Ryan Kelly. Kelly is a very good player who has earned excellent grades from Pro Football Focus (subscription required) throughout his career. He also has made a lot of money and had a cap hit of $11 million this season.
According to Spotrac, Kelly's market value in free agency is one year and $10 million. It is laughable, and also quite sad, to think that Schneider would spend that much on a center. He won't, no matter how much Kelly would likely upgrade the offensive line overall. This is especially true if the Seahawks want to finally give Oluwatimi a chance to be the full-time starter at center.
Seattle would be better off spending the kind of money it would take to sign Kelly, assuming the Seahawks can create enough cap space to do so since the team is currently over the projected salary cap, on signing a guard. That could be for the left or right side as both need help.
It might be a safer assumption to think Seattle re-signs Tomlinson, has Oluwatimi at center, and maybe Sataoa Laumea takes over for Bradford at right guard. Is that a best-case scenario? No. But it is the John Schneider way.