PCJS said there were "upsets" in day 2 that forced them to make big changes in their draft strategy.
Everyone seems to assume they were targeting interior line, but that doesn't really make sense when you look at the players taken ahead of the Seahawks' picks.
2.1 CB Porter
2.2 QB Levis
2.3 TE LaPorta
2.4 TE Mayer
2.5 G Avila
2.6 EDGE Hall
Were they planning on going QB, TE, or G? No DL had gone off the board. It looks to me like they ended up with their highest rated DL.
2.7 OT
2.8 WR
2.9 EDGE
2.10 EDGE
2.11 TE
2.12 C Tippmann
2.13 CB
2.14 CB
2.15 EDGE
2.16 CB
2.17 OT
2.18 DT Benton
2.19 WR
2.20 CB
2.21 RB Charbonnet
I don't think they were looking at C this high, and Benton was the consensus highest rated IDL on the board to start day 2 - it's no surprise he was taken before their 2nd pick. Were they counting on him to fall to them with no alternate interior line plan?
After they traded 3.21, three DTs were taken in the next 15 picks - Turner, Martin, Ika. So there were viable candidates and they traded out anyway.
If there were "upsets" it appears they may have been on the offensive side. I don't see where the board really fell against them on the defensive side unless, for some strange reason, they were looking for CB or maybe another EDGE (when they already have 6 on the roster).
Everyone seems to assume they were targeting interior line, but that doesn't really make sense when you look at the players taken ahead of the Seahawks' picks.
2.1 CB Porter
2.2 QB Levis
2.3 TE LaPorta
2.4 TE Mayer
2.5 G Avila
2.6 EDGE Hall
Were they planning on going QB, TE, or G? No DL had gone off the board. It looks to me like they ended up with their highest rated DL.
2.7 OT
2.8 WR
2.9 EDGE
2.10 EDGE
2.11 TE
2.12 C Tippmann
2.13 CB
2.14 CB
2.15 EDGE
2.16 CB
2.17 OT
2.18 DT Benton
2.19 WR
2.20 CB
2.21 RB Charbonnet
I don't think they were looking at C this high, and Benton was the consensus highest rated IDL on the board to start day 2 - it's no surprise he was taken before their 2nd pick. Were they counting on him to fall to them with no alternate interior line plan?
After they traded 3.21, three DTs were taken in the next 15 picks - Turner, Martin, Ika. So there were viable candidates and they traded out anyway.
If there were "upsets" it appears they may have been on the offensive side. I don't see where the board really fell against them on the defensive side unless, for some strange reason, they were looking for CB or maybe another EDGE (when they already have 6 on the roster).