The Seattle Seahawks need to make some offensive line upgrades, but so far, the team has not done much to do that this offseason. In fact, the line has it currently stands is even worse than last year. Left guard Laken Tomlinson left in free agency. While the line overall was very poor, Tomlinson was not the major problem. The right side of the line was.
Still, Seattle might need to find better starters from left guard to right tackle. The assumption is that Abraham Lucas will return healthier next season than last year, and will be able to play beginning in Week 1. Lucas is a fine, but not great, tackle.
Right guard is anyone's guess. The trio likely battling for the starting spot are Christian Haynes, Sataoa Laumea, and Anthony Bradford. Haynes rarely played as a rookie, Laumea was overwhelmed as a rookie last season, and Bradford was just bad.
Seattle Seahawks should pass on trying to sign recently released center Garrett Bradbury
Center, though, would seemingly belong to Olu Oluwatimi. But he is entering his third season in the NFL and has barely had a chance to prove himself. After 2024 free-agent acquisition Connor Williams retired midseason, Oluwatimi started and earned the 19th-best grade among all centers in the league, according to Pro Football Focus (subscription required).
But there is no guarantee that Oluwatimi will be the starting center to begin next season, and this is especially true after the Minnesota Vikings unsurprisingly released former starter Garrett Bradbury on Monday. Bradbury has been the Vikings' starter since 2019. More importantly, he was the center for new Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold last year, and that connection could be important.
Darnold seemingly likes Bradbury, and the center will likely not be overly expensive on the free-agent market. If general manager John Schneider believes Darnold would be even more comfortable in his first season with Seattle by adding Bradbury, then Schneider might try to sign the center.
The problem is that Bradbury is not very good, and he is terrible at pass protection. Every season since 2019, except for 2023, Bradbury has allowed at least 26 total pressures. (Even in 2023, he allowed 22.) Last season, he allowed 38 pressures on Darnold. His PFF pass-block grades are dismal for nearly every season the center has played.
He is better at run-blocking, and that was an area where the Seahawks offensive line greatly struggled last year. But while Bradbury might help remedy that issue, he is likely to be worse than Williams or Oluwatimi were in pass protection for Seattle last year.
Nothing disrupts a quarterback more than direct interior pass pressure. Bradbury appears to allow that consistently. He ranked 36th among all centers in pass-block grade in 2024, per PFF, and that number was the third-highest of his career. Seattle should just go with Oluwatimi instead of wasting money on Bradbury.
Update: Bradbury has signed with the New England Patriots,