The best Seahawks from small colleges

[kev007]

Greeting from the UK

I think we had a really good draft this year; one player I'm really going to root for is Ty Powell as he is from a college I have never heard of! That set me thinking as to which other Seahawks drafted from small colleges have made it - guess the obvious one is Dave Krieg but Pete Metzelaars came from Wabash and had a 16 year career in the NFL (although only for a couple of years with the 'Hawks); who is your favourite?

Kev

 

[grizbob]

Yup, the guy from Milton College was my 1st thought and my favorite :thirishdrinkers:

 

[The Radish]

Greeting from the UK

I think we had a really good draft this year; one player I'm really going to root for is Ty Powell as he is from a college I have never heard of! That set me thinking as to which other Seahawks drafted from small colleges have made it - guess the obvious one is Dave Krieg but Pete Metzelaars came from Wabash and had a 16 year career in the NFL (although only for a couple of years with the 'Hawks); who is your favourite?

Kev

Not a couple of years. Dave was with the Seahawks from 1980 to 1991.

:les:

 

[Rainger]

Dave Krieg. Best Seahawk Free Agent of all time and best small college aquisition of all time. There absolutly is no dispute.

 

[Hamhawk]

you can't argue against Dave Krieg being our best small college acquisition,...heck, Milton college is not even in existence anymore,...

 

[JSeahawks]

Jon Kitna from Central Washington University. Makes it even cooler that it was local.

 

[sutz]

Steve Largent from Tulsa.

:229031_shrug:

 

[Hawkstorian]

Not many NFL players from Colgate.

Eugene Robinson!

 

[JSeahawks]

Marcus Trufant, Steve Broussard and Michael Bumpus!

 

[JSeahawks]

Not that he's one of the best Seahawks, but Josh Portis from California University of Pennsylvania.

 

[kev007]

Greeting from the UK

I think we had a really good draft this year; one player I'm really going to root for is Ty Powell as he is from a college I have never heard of! That set me thinking as to which other Seahawks drafted from small colleges have made it - guess the obvious one is Dave Krieg but Pete Metzelaars came from Wabash and had a 16 year career in the NFL (although only for a couple of years with the 'Hawks); who is your favourite?

Kev

Not a couple of years. Dave was with the Seahawks from 1980 to 1991.

:les:

My bad - meant Metzelaars was with the Hawks for just a couple of years!

Chris Warren played at Ferrum college, a division 3 school , and went on to have 4 1,000 yard rushing seasons and made 3 Pro Bowls, must be up there with Krieg?

See Fred Thomas came from Tennessee Martin, Terrence Warren was at Hampton and Antonio Edwards from Valdosta State; none of them were around for long.

Kev

 

[drdiags]

What about Derrick Fenner from Ferrum (?). I need to go look up the spelling.

EDIT: Just noticed Kev007 stole my thunder.

 

[Throwdown]

Marcus Trufant, Steve Broussard and Michael Bumpus!

Lmaoooo

 

[kearly]

Jerry Rice was out of Mississippi Valley State. Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[hawkfan68]

Not the best but.....

Jim Zorn - Cal Poly
Rufus Porter - Southern
Sam McCullum - Montana St
Jim Jodat - Carthage
Will Lewis - Millersville
Robert Hardy - Jackson St
Ron Essink - Grand Valley St
Edwin Bailey - South Carolina St
Byron Walker - The Citadel

 

[SeatownJay]

Some other small-school draft picks that had solid careers with Seattle.

Michael Sinclair, Eastern New Mexico
Ron Essink, Grand Valley State
Terry Taylor, Southern Illinois

 

[seahawkfreak]

Marcus Trufant, Steve Broussard and Michael Bumpus!

yeah ok duck! Go Cougs

 

[CANHawk]

Kelly Jennings from Miami... Oh wait, I got that backwards; he's the worst Seahawk from a BIG school...

 

[NorthDallas40oz]

CB Dwayne Harper of South Carolina State had a nice little career.

 

[SalishHawkFan]

Not the best but.....

Jim Zorn - Cal Poly
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:34853_doh:

Zorn was arguably THE best QB this team has ever had. Russell Wilson with a leftie cannon Wilson could only dream about having. Playing behind an expansion team oline back in the days when expansion teams sucked.