You can go back and see me pounding the table for Richardson. So believe me, I’d have loved him in Seattle.
But trading up would’ve likely cost them Witherspoon, next years first, and DK (to go up to one with similar compensation as Carolina) and Arizona wouldn’t have traded with a division rival without jacking up the cost. They already got a haul from Houston. Likely costs us Witherspoon, JSN and picks next year.
Whether that is worth it is in the eye of the beholder, but there were very reputable sources reporting that AR would’ve been the pick at 5 if he was there. Same source that reported Seattle was high on Cam Young.
So I think we’d have a QBotF had the draft fallen that way, it didn’t. And they seem to have maximized the Russell Wilson trade by getting 3 stud players (Cross, Mafe, Witherspoon) and Derrick Hall seems promising.