The Seattle Seahawks chose Jadarian Price in the first round of the 2026 NFL draft for more reasons than he can score a touchdown or 10. General manager John Schneider and head coach Mike Macdonald both said that Price, the person, his loyalty and respect for others, helped make the selection easy, too.
It is Price the person that fans will want to get to know more about, of course. That is the way life works. We don't want to cheer only for players who do well on the field, but also if they succeed in life as well. That's gold. One can imagine Bobby Wagner, for instance. A Hall of Fame player and human being.
That makes draft day calls so amazing. If a player answers the phone, thanks the team for picking him or her, and then acts with arrogance with the thought that they are automatically better than other people, that doesn't give fans good vibes. That's not how it happened with Price.
Seattle Seahawks draft day phone call to Jadarian Price will give fans all the feels
Thanks to a Notre Dame beat reporter, Jack Soble, as well as the Seahawks official X handle, we can see both Seattle making the call and Price answering it. We can hear the running back on the Seahawks feed, but watching him makes the moment so much better.
Price is tearful at the beginning, slightly overwhelmed by being a first-round pick, but then resolves himself to the situation. His happiness comes through glowingly in the end.
Hard not to get emotional watching Jadarian Price get the call from the Seahawks. The tears at the beginning, the smile at the end.
— Jack Soble (@jacksoble56) April 24, 2026
Marcus Freeman once called Price "the most unselfish individual" on the Irish, and his selflessness paid off tonight. pic.twitter.com/Uivrh2QabU
Does Jadarian Price appear to be the kind of human being that Seattle Seahawks fans will happily pull for? Of course. This isn't an act by him, either. In interviews, he comes across as a relatively humble person who understands he must overcome challenges to reach the greatness he desires.
The call of a lifetime. @Jadarian15 pic.twitter.com/TaTZw2OaJn
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) April 24, 2026
Price isn't taking because he believes he is owed everything, but giving in that he is aware how lucky he is, at least based on what fans know about him so far. He was selected by Schneider because the GM understands how well the running back will fit into the team's culture, and that cannot be disrupted.
The Seahawks won the Super Bowl, of course, last season, and hopefully they will for the next many years to come. But what makes the situation better is that people on the team, like Rashid Shaheed, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and others, make the humanity excellent. Jadarian Price is only going to add to that.
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