April 25, 2026 • 47 mins
Chuck Powell and Jessamyn McIntyre continue to break down the 3rd day of the 2026 NFL Draft.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your home for the twelfth Man Probably presents the twenty
twenty six NFL Draft Live from Pittsburgh, presented by Frost Broud,
Coors Light, Cold as the Rockies, and brought to you
by Dinos Pub and Rendan on Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, good Saturday afternoon. My name is Chuck Powell. Welcome
into our draft coverage as it continues on Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJR FM, day number three of
the National Football League Draft. We are in the midst
of the fifth round as we speak, with the Seahawks
having a couple of draft picks awaiting us in round
number six. I'm here to sort of I love this segment,
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this three hour block that I have on Saturdays, because
it gives me the opportunity not only to update you
on some picks, but we don't have to necessarily be
focused on all of the picks at this stage in
the draft. It gives us plenty of opportunity, plenty of
room for activities here this afternoon to kind of recap
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all of the activity that has taken place to this
point in the draft. So I love it. I embrace it.
My boss ps himself always ask me every year, which
shift do you want? I say, Saturday noon to three,
And so here we are. Jessmine McIntyre is here as well.
We'll be updating you with any kind of interviews that
we get from the podium as we go. Jackson Felts
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is already here for us three o'clock shift. So we
got your covered nice job by Ian and Rob rang
here this morning, along with a collection of guests that
we'll probably tap into in our three hours together as well.
So happy Draft Day to everyone out.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I know, did you get to open your presence, your
Draftmas presence?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Of course, yes, I mean you. Well, it's been an
interesting draft to this point for the Seahawks. I do
think that they have satisfied some needs. And I know
a lot of general managers don't acknowledge that we draft
for need, but they do, and so we'll certainly discuss
that as we go. But yes, as a person that
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has an invented a holiday on our airwaves around this
sporting event, yeah, it's been a great draft miss thus far.
And it's a strange thing, yes about Saturday. I don't
know why it is, but it's always the best weather
day of the entire year. Oh my gosh, Saturday at
the Draft.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And the lake just teases us. I know it's a
beautiful view, but I just want to be out fishing
with those guys right now. I want to be that
bald eagle that just flew by. I mean even I
can look at the twelve flag that is out there
right on the edge of the practice field and it
is just hanging down. There's not even a breeze. It's
such perfect weather. So those of you out there, hopefully
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you're walking around listening on the iHeart app up to us.
It's not stuck inside.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's every year like the Saturday of the Draft is
like the best weather day of the entire year. I
don't know why that happens, but it does. I think
it's just I think it's God's way of saying, nice job, Draft,
and thanks for doing my work.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Chuck. You chose this shift. You get to be right
here and look at the beauty that I created. That's
right right when it comes to draftmas Man created.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The draft, but I created the weather for you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah. So the one Draftmas present I was going to
ask you about was kind of like what I would
call an anti gift because I come in with the
late surprises. How surprised were you when they traded a
fourth round pick for next year to trade up in
the fifth round to get a guard?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Uh? Well, I'm a little surprised because I did kind
of cross paths with John Schneider this morning, the moment
that I got here, and he was just to kind
of get in his coffee for the day and probably
his fourth cup, and and he I said, don't you
have something to do right now? And his reaction was, no, Oh,
I don't. I don't have anything to do right now
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because they weren't drafted till the sixth round, and so
many people have said that this wasn't going to be
some loaded up draft, and so maybe this is the
right year to only have four picks. But I don't
know if he can help himself. I think that if
you've ever done a keeper league and any like fantasy,
and sometimes you keep more players than you did before
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the previous year, and then you sit in on the
draft day and you sit there and like, Bolly, I
really wish I was drafting right now. I mean, I
like the guys that I kept, but I kind of
wish I was drafting there are a lot of these
players that are going by. So I don't know if
it was out of pure boredom that he decided to
move into the fifth round and get both Stevens or
if he just couldn't resist the player. But yes, he
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gets both Stevens out of Iowa. So I would say
a little surprised, not overly surprised.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, I guess we were all just waiting for the
sixth round, right like we were sitting here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's a nice, little pleasant surprise for you, John Kipp
from the God it was.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was wonderful. John came through. I had to hold
up a sign I still have it right here. That's
the Yaks are on the clock. I held it up
for Ian, so I'll let you know the same thing.
I figured it would come into Indy. But yeah, I
saw John when I was walking in around eight fifteen
this morning. You know, he was just getting in and
then he came up here in the nine o'clock hour,
just walking through and saying his hellos to everybody. Were like,
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oh man, he is too relaxed for there to be
anything happening, right and uh and lo and behold is
a good actor.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Next thing you know you're on the clock and you
grab a guard from Iowa. So, yes, we got a
lot to do today. I'll tell you this. I was
so excited about getting here today that I completely drove
to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center and forgot to put
on me my deodorant. So I had to go to
the mini mart right before I got here.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The one right next to the y, yeah, right, and
one right next to the is a godsend.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I bought an eleven dollars stick of deal eleven dollars
of deodorant because I didn't want anybody coming away from
this thinking I was right during my draft coverage. But
it was well worth it. So what has two thumbs
and smells like cucumber and cactus water? Today? This guy,
this guy right here, I picked the best thing that
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they had. Yes, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That sounds refreshing to me.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well I feel refreshed. Yeah, light as a feather. So
all right, well let's get you up to date. If
you're just now, like you know, got the lawn mode
this morning on a gorgeous day, and now you just
cracked open a beer and you've turned on your favorite
radio station and the Galaxy, and you want to know
what's going on with the NFL Draft, let me just
give me a give you a quick recap of like
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everything that has happened. First of all, from the Seahawks perspective,
this is what they've done since Thursday, thirty second pick
in the first round, Jadarian Price, the running back out
of Notre Dame. Second round yesterday, sixty fourth overall. There
was another stick and pick move by the sea Hawks.
Bud Clark out of TCU. Cornerback slash safety, probably safety
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slash cornerback safety with cornerback coverage skills is how he's described.
Uh six eight out of Texas Christian University. Experienced player
was there for six years, so a lot of playing
time at the college level. Four four one, so it's
got some speed to him. Bud Clark the second round selection,
and then at the tail end of last night's festivities,
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a little slight trade down to ninety nine from ninety
six that allowed the Seahawks pick up another sixth rounder,
two hundred and sixteenth overall, which we'll get to later
on this afternoon. And then at ninety nine they take
Julian Neil, who apparently won over the Seattle media Hoard
with his first interview with the media.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Sure did. We could take a listen back to that
if you want to, because it was yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Long armed cornerback out of Arkansas and feisty, feisty character,
two hundred and three pounds, four four nine forty at
the combined forty inch vertical leap and a physical presence
at the cornerback position out of Arkansas. So that was
what happened before today. What's happened today for the Seahawks,
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no pick in the fourth round, and then that surprise
move that Jess mentioned into the fifth round where they
moved a fourth rounder for next year's draft to the
Cleveland Browns in exchange for Bo Stevens, six foot five inch,
three hundred and fifteen pound guard out of Iowa. I mean,
I'm not going to sit here and try to tell
you I know Bo Stevens and everything that makes him tick.
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But I will say this, and this should give you
a little bit of comfort on a cold day in
the fall, and that is that Bo Stevens is somebody
that is out of Iowa and they are famous for
their development of sound fundamentally sound offensive lineman and they
actually this past year won the award for best offensive
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line in the entire country. So he's off of the
best offensive line in college football from a year ago
and now he is a member of the Seahawks. Bo
Stevens the selection in the fifth round at one forty
eight to the Hawks, and they still have two picks
in the sixth round, one eighty eight and two sixteen,
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which we'll get to a little bit later on this afternoon,
so stay with us for that as the picks come
off the board. So that's what the Seahawks have done
thus far in the twenty twenty six NFL drafting. I
guess my analysis of it, my reaction to it is
I realize what Mike McDonald said last night, We aren't
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just trying to find direct replacements for the guys that
we lost in free agency. We weren't just trying to
find a body type to replace Kobe Bryant and a
body type to replace Rieke Woolan. That said, that's exactly
what you've done.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's not just bodies. Well's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's you. Okay, okay, okay, okay, I get it, all right.
We're gonna believe that you had a board you followed
your board. But the truth of the matter is that
you lost a running back in the offseason to free
agency that seemed to be your biggest need. And with
your first pick, you got a running back. And then
the second best player that you lost was Kobe Bryant
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via free agency. And what did you do. You got
a safety with cover skills, with experience at college who's
really bright and football savvy. That sounds like Kobe Bryant
to me.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, yeah, I mean there's a lot of similarities you
can make when it comes to length, weight, height, and
savvy when it comes to football players. But what I
heard over the last two days from each and every
person that has spoken is that they are a bona
fide Seahawk. I just think that there's more beyond that
that they also.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
When I get what you're saying, though, but they check
all those boxes of you know, but we lost I mean,
maybe it's just total coincidence, or maybe that was really
that was part of the fabric of your decision was
we've lost a running back, we need to replace him.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Let's get this guy. We really like him. We lost
a safety that we really love who has cover skills
and can play Nickel and plays hard and plays like
Kobe Bryant. And it just so happens that all the
measurements and all of that stuff sort of coincide. And yes,
we lost a really rangy, tall cornerback and free agency
to the Philadelphia Eagles, Andreke Wolan, And then the third round,
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what did we get a really tall, rangy cornerback to
replace him? Mean, he's not the athlete therek Wolan is,
but he's also some of the things that frustrated us
about Reke woll And this guy seems to have like
a true physical nature about him, a true football's first
kind of mentality, and not wolfing at the opponent seemed
to be at times Requolan's primary mode of operation. And
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so look, this isn't Julian Neil is Reek Woolan, but
you do in the National Football League have to keep
in mind there are tall, rangey wide receivers. Do we
have a tall, rangy cornerback to match up against them?
And so I get like, strategically everybody wants a taller cornerback.
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It just so happens that our third best player that
we lost in the offseason was Reek Woolan. And we've
replaced him in the third round with a rangey, tall cornerback.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean, yeah, when you put it that way, Chuck,
it makes a little bit as sense there. But also
that's meeting the needs that the immediate needs that you have, right,
because their base, the core of their team is still
so solid. They didn't i mean, losing Kenneth Walker, Yeah,
that stinks, right, I mean, but we're we all surprised.
I mean, they just couldn't afford to keep him for
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what the Chiefs paid for him, So, like, I get it,
but filling those immediate needs. I mean I was sitting
right up there when John Schneider came out and spoke
after that, and I've never seen him not excited before
in a press conference. Uh, they wanted him so badly.
They wanted that kid at that pick, but they thought
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they could get him later, right, And nobody played ball.
I'll show you my little sheet here when it comes
to this, when they chose price, Look at all the
trades that happened later on that round. Nobody wanted to
play ball with them. Yeah, and so yeah, it's just arrow, arrow, arrow,
and everything goes around Seattle. And and so they did.
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They definitely wanted Jedarian, but they definitely thought that they
could get a little more value in the draft and
get him later.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well yes, uh it, you know, it's just and I
don't think John's guilty of this. I think a lot
of other general managers are guilty of this. And I
don't know why, no, no, no, we driven draft ford need.
I think John does acknowledge that we. Yes, of course
we draft for need. You have to draft for need
on occasion. But it really won as a needy draft.
There were some needs and they weren't great. I mean,
this is a Super Bowl champion that you know, had
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the youngest team in the National Football League this past year.
It kind of felt like the Seahawks are playing with
house money in this year's draft and next year's draft.
You still have, even with the trade today, ten picks
in order to kind of bolster some areas going forward
and into the future. But for this particular draft, I mean,
of all the teams in the National Football League, the
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Seahawks kind of felt like they had the fewest needs
out there, and yet what did they do with their
first three picks? What needs that we did believe that
they had, they did kind of fill with the exception
of edge rusher, they still have not taken an edge
rusher to provide depth so far in this draft, and
maybe in round six at pick one eighty eight and
pick two sixteen, you're not going to find a guy
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that is going to get a lot of playing time,
but you might still it might be a matter of
trying to add some depth to that position. But it's
felt certainly like there were a few holes that were
created through free agency, and we did with our first
three selections kind of fill those holes with similar body
types that we had prior to the offseason, and so
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Jadarian Price, Blood Clark, Julian Neil all on the Seahawks
in this draft, plus some offensive line dep with Bo
Stevens out of Iowa. Let's talk about some other things
that have happened here today in case you are just
joining us here in our draft coverage on this Saturday.
Some interesting selections that were made here in round number four,
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Jermad McCoy, cornerback out of Las Vegas, who at one
point was projected as a mid first rounder. There were
a lot of knee concerns for McCoy and so he
started to slide and I'm not all that surprise that
after Day number two, teams had the chance to kind
of regroup, not on the clock anymore, and had an
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overnight to make some phone calls, talk to doctors, talk
to people that knew McCoy, talked to Tennessee, and there
was somebody out there that decided, Hey, we feel good
enough about what we learned medically about this young man's knee,
so let's move up to the first to the top
of the fourth round, and let's go ahead and grab him.
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And that team happened to be the Las Vegas Raiders,
So Jermad McCoy finally came off the board. You know,
it's got to be heartbreaking for a guy that spent
all that time in college building up his draft status,
getting ready for the National Football League, thought he was
a mid first rounder, and then all of a sudden,
medical reports come out and now he's just slid out
of day one, he slid out of Day two, and
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had to be thinking as he put his head on
the pillow last night, how far am I going to
slide in round number four or beyond? Well, it must
have been a big relief for him to get finally
selected today in round number four. Also, Cade Klubneck, cornerback
quarterback out of Clemson, went to the Jets and the
fourth round earlier today. This is somebody. I mean, I
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was just having this conversation prior to the show with
someone and this was supposed to be a quarterback draft.
At the beginning of last football season, there was a
belief that, man, wait till you see the quarterback class
for next year. Club Nick and Nussmyer and all of
these guys, well, they ended up going out there and
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having bad years, and so Kate Klubnick ends up slipping
down nus Meyers. I don't think nuss Meyer's still been drafted,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I have not seen him go.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah. And then a couple of guys stayed in school,
like Dante Moore stayed in school and DeNora Sellers from
South Carolina State in school.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So people are making money.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, exactly, and so not a quarterback rich draft. But
here is somebody in Club Nick, who at the beginning
of last football season people thought was going to be
a first rounder, had a bad year at Clemson, and
he ends up going in the fourth round in this
draft to the New York Jets. Jonah Colman went earlier
this this morning to the Denver Broncos. Strange that he
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was on the Chuck and Buck radio show last week
and I asked him which teams he had the best
feeling about, and he said the Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Well,
he ends up getting drafted by the Denver Bronx. Yeah,
uh so one eight overall. So Jonah Coleman's found a
home and mile high. Elijah Surratt, you remember him. He
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was the wide receiver for the Indiana Hoosiers. He was
taken in round number four by the Baltimore Ravens. Here today,
Mike Washington Junior, who was a name that we tossed
about for a month, maybe even longer than that at
KJAR and certainly in our draft miss holiday celebration on
Chuck and Buck. Mike Washington Junior finally went today in
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the middle of the fourth round and against the Raiders
who take Mike Washington Junior. I mean, I will admit this.
I didn't spend any time even his father Draftmas through
Mike Washington Junior's Arkansas tape lay.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Snap draft femiss.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I would imagine that Mike Washington junior probably doesn't have
real consistent tape as a college running back for all
the things that you're looking for for a pro running back.
But I'll say this from a highlight reel tape, I'm
not even sure Jeremiah loves highlights. We're more impressive than
Mike Washington juniors. I mean, he looks like a beast,
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and I do wonder how good he might become with
the Las Vegas Raiders under some better coaching and tutelage,
in this being his profession now, So I think that's
a heck of a gamble by the Raiders, who somehow
had a really good draft. I mean, well, I'm gonna
talk about this a little bit later on in the show,
but I mean, three of the maybe four, of the
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organization's most famous for bumbling drafts, I'm putting the top
of having great drafts this year. The Raiders, the Browns,
the Jets, the Cardinals, in my estimation, have had great drafts.
And they are they have. They are historically terrible at
this exercise.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We don't know how it's gonna pan out.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh that's the worst part, of course, And maybe you know,
maybe we're reading it wrong. I certainly open up the
door to being wrong about this, But it just kind
of feels like all of those teams are getting great
value and are using the process wisely. And I normally
don't say that at the end of the day about
any of those organizations, and yet it feels to me
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like they have four of the best grades going right now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I would say you're correct, except I say that growing up,
you know, on the Long Island, a jets offficionado, that
I don't trust anything that they do, and I've seen
a lot of things that look like good ideas end
up not going well through poor management decisions. I'll just
put it as a blanket with management decisions. But I
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agree with you. I don't want to see the Cardinals
get better because we already have murderers row in the
NFC Wests. We don't need them to get good.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, they're still a little ways from being good anything they.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Are, but they're doing a proper rebuild right now, and
they have made the right moves in the draft as
far as what I've seen so far, you're correct.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I'm going to get to some reasons why I
feel that a little bit later on in our time
together here, this afternoon. But in this first segment, let
me continue to just recap what's happened here today. Some
other names that you might be interested in. The twenty
seventh pick in the fourth round one twenty seven overall,
Carver Willis out of U DUB went to the San
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Francisco forty nine Ers, and then another U DUB player,
Ephesian's price Sock, ended up going to the forty nine
Ers as well at pick number thirty nine in round
number four, and then to round number five. A former
U DUB player, Parker Brailsford, the center who went to Alabama,
who followed Kaylin to board Alabama and ended up having
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a sound career with the Crimson Tide. He ends up
going in the fifth round, sixth pick of the fifth
round to the Cleveland Browns. Emmett Johnson, who I just think,
I mean his athleticism. He didn't have a great forty
and he carried the ball a lot at Nebraska, and
so maybe people are a little worried at smaller size
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that durability wise might not be a great fit in
the National Football League. I think that's reflective and where
he ended up being drafted in round five for goodness,
sake at one sixty one overall. But let me tell
you something, if you're just looking for somebody, if Emmett
Johnson's ass about his draft status, he just has to
throw out that classic line, go watch the tape, because
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you go watch Emmitt Johnson play football, and that that's
a dog right there. So he goes to the Kansas
City Chiefs to back up Ken Walker in round number
five of this draft today. Another familiar name to college
football fans. If you watched more than just your local team,
you've surely heard of Nicholas Singleton, the running back out
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of Penn State. Well, he went in round number five
as well. He's now a Tennessee Titan. And then Sunny
Styles brother just went Lorenzo Styles Junior, the speedster out
of Ohio State, who may not have a position, you know,
it wasn't exactly his brother at the college level, and
yet he ended up just going now to the New
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Orleans Saints with the one hundred and seventy second pick
in this draft. So that's some of the things that
happened today, and we still have ways to go. We
got two plus rounds yet remaining, including the Seahawks picking
twice in round number six. I'll keep reiterating that in
our afternoon together at one eighty eight and two sixteen,
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those are the picks remaining. So that gets you up
to speed with where we're at. We certainly have a
lot of things to discuss and to analyze. We got
plenty of people in this room that know a thing
or three about football that will probably float onto our
airwaves over the course of the next two and a
half hours together. But I think that we have set
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the table for you this afternoon, so we will take
a quick break. Our coverage is brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (24:21):
Where to find myself there later.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, Bob Candota is famous for his trivia knowledge there.
He's treated like a god. He's treated like C three
po by the e walks. When he walks in there,
they just put him in a throne and carry him around.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You know what, I would really pay a lot of
money to see that. I like a lot a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Let's make it happen, all right, So stick with us.
We are live from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Our
coverage of the NFL Draft continues right here at Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M. ParvE A,
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good afternoon. It is Chuck Powell broadcasting a lot, continuing
our draft coverage right here at Sports Radio ninety three
point three KHRFM. Great to have you with us. I'm
gonna take it till three o'clock today, then hand things
over to Jackson Feltson company. They'll start at three o'clock
as we guide you through the rest of these picks,
just to get you updated on what might have happened.
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We got through pick one seventy three in the draft
and round number three, and so excuse me, round number five,
I should say, round number six. Well, that's where John
Schneider has two picks still to make in this draft,
at one eighty eight and at two sixteen. He has
made a pick today if you are just joining us.
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He traded into today's draft into round number five, pick
one forty eight overall, and grab Bo Stevens guard out
of Iowa to add to the offensive line depth, and
that cost the Seahawks one of their fourth rounders for
next year. As next year they had eleven picks and
now down to ten, but that's still plenty for them
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to have next season. So that's what's happening here, and
so we will certainly keep you up to date. We'll
throw Rob rang back on the airwaves a little bit
later on as well to talk about the picks that
are still upcoming for the Seahawks. So great to have
you with us. We're also in the midst of that
round where almost all the picks and television are made
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to kind of build the game globally, so it's always
like fun to see some kite maker from Luxembourg, you know,
tell us who the Buccaneers are taking next. So that's
we're in that. We're in that span of time as well,
you know, talking about you know, some cab driver from
you know, neck Paul telling you that the Jets just
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picked a guard and they love him. So that's where
we're at in this stage of the NFL draft. So yes,
we'll keep you up to speed as to what's going
on in rounds six. I'll say this, it's been quite
the interesting draft for the NFC West to this point.
I mean, I think maybe some of the most fascinating
storylines are coming out of the division. The Seahawks by
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comparison just looks so bland and so solid, you know,
and that's not a bad thing, by the way. I
know bland might sound like it's a criticism, but not
with the upheaval that's happening around us in the division.
I mean, it's just for the Seahawks, it's been like
solid pick kind of like for the most part, stick
and pick, you know, stay and play. So there's all
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the picks have made sense from a need standpoint, and
from a holes standpoint, and from a talent standpoint, and
from a Seahawks standpoint. Yeah, they've certainly emphasized more in
recent years. They seem to really be hitting the character
of a player has to be there for them to
draft them. I love that about I think it's a
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little bit of a change in that direction here in
the last few years. Experience has been something but also
a Seahawk type player, and so they're kind of drilling
home on that. So nothing seems outlandish in this draft,
even the trade up. We've got excess draft picks next year,
so let's get into the fifth round, get some offensive
line depth, and just get a really fundamentally sound piece
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in both Stevens. I mean, so I don't know of
anybody at the end of this process, not that I
love the grading system that goes on after the drafts
are over. I don't know if anybody's going to give
the Seahawks an A or an A plus. But if
they come away with just a solid B, that's probably
what you're going to be seeing from all of the
guys that do grade drafts, because it's just like solid, solid, solid,
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solid solid. Meanwhile, and the guys around us in this division, man,
the Rams continue to get hit hard for the ty
Simpson selection, and Seahawk fans continue to feel great about
the ty Simpson selection. You're our closest competitor for the division,
maybe for the Super Bowl next year, and yet you
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decided to use the thirteenth overall pick on something that
won't play for three years, maybe four years. In ty
Simpson and even their subsequent picks after Simpson they seem
a bit odd. And so the Rams have kind of
been crushed by a lot of the national analysts for
the drafts that they've had, and then you've got the
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side show of what's going on between Snead and McVeigh.
They've tried to explain that they are in lockstep. That's
the word that they use to describe that. Yes, we
were both really excited about ty Simpson. The only problem
is one of them looked like he was pissed about
ty Simpson, and that is head coach Sean McVay. They've
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tried to explain it. I still don't know if people
are buying it. I think he was wearing his emotions
on his sleeve. And I'm not saying that Lesnie did
something to Colcock Sean McVay to blindside Sean McVeigh with
the Ty Simpson selection, but it did at least feel
like I don't really agree with this wholeheartedly. I would
like to do something else. And even though we've had
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a lot of discussions about Simpson and liking him as
a quarterback and maybe our quarterback of the future, boy,
when you are in a championship window and you're taking
a backup quarterback and the Seahawks are filling all their needs,
it feels like we're doing ourselves maybe a little bit
of a disservice. It feels like we're doing Matt Stafford
a little bit of a disservice. So I love it.
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I'm here for it. The drama in Los Angeles feels real,
and I don't know if we'll ever know the truth
behind it, but I just I and a lot of
other people, even after the explanation that was given yesterday,
have kind of walked away from it thinking that Sean
McVay was not happy about that selection. And then the
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forty nine ers have had an odd stretch of picks.
I think they've had a fine second day. Romelo Height,
the edge guy out of Texas Tech, I think a
good value pick in round number two. I liked Kaylon
Black out of Indiana, but I didn't think he'd go
as high as third round. And then there's been a
lot of talk about Dejan Stribbling, the wide receiver out
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of Old miss Who. Dejean Stribling is somebody that I
saw in my draft preparation that a lot of people
had graded as a mid day three selection. Even though
I did like him as a college player, I was
a little surprised that people were grading him that low.
And then for them to come out of day number two,
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the very first pick all that time to think about it,
traded down twice to get there, and for them to
come away and say, now this is the guy we won.
This is the guy that's at the top of our board.
Dejeans stribbling, And there seems to be a little bit
of controversy around that that maybe Kyle Shanahan wasn't all
on board with that pick.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But lest we forget, he played for the Koogs as well.
I did get to cover him and saw a lot
of potential, and I I think he got a lot
better once he went to He was there during the
COVID years and you know, went through the Nick Rolovich
and the Jake Dicker transition and everything. And I do
not blame him for going to Ole Miss. I don't
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think anyone felt bad. But he got a lot better
once he went elsewhere. And I think that at least
from me watching his college evolution, they see a lot
of potential for continued growth.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but I don't know if anybody's I think when
this process is over, I don't know if anybody's going
to be great in the forty nine ers. So highly
it seemed like an odd pick at the time. It
certainly seemed like somebody who could still move down and
get later on in the draft.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was texting with an unnamed source with the Niners
the other day who told me he loved his tape,
and so there was something about him that they really saw.
But I also agree with you when we're looking at
them in the division, like I was talking about the
murderers row that we're seeing in the NFC West, that
I don't mind seeing them maybe make some questionable of this.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. I mean they've been talked about,
I know from a national perspective, and I know we've
been talking about it locally, but we also have a
little bit of bias. Maybe we're looking a little bit
for them to screw up.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Hey, I want to see any little cracks.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, coxactly, But maybe we're evaluating it with a really
close eye. And so because emotionally we'd like to see
them screw up, maybe we're reading into it. But that
does not sound like that's the case. It sounds like
nationally most people think the Rams and forty nine ers
have had some pretty weird drafts to this point. So
and those are the key division rivals. Now I mentioned
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in the first segment, I think the Arizona Cardinals have
had a great draft. Of course, they seem a long
way away from being the Seahawks or the Rams or
the forty nine ers. So they probably need a couple
of really strong drafts before they can catch up to
the rest of the group. But I think they've had
a great draft to this point. And there have been
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people nationally they've criticized the Jeremiah Love selection and saying,
you don't take a third pick, you don't take a
running back when they've got so much else to build
up around them. I think that's fooey. The Arizona Cardinals
need to get in the habit of just when you've
got a chance to get a great player, get a
great player, you don't start playing the game of you
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know WHOA wait, maybe we got to build this up first,
right now, start making good picks. I mean, that's the
best way to heal your organization's woes is to start
having good drafts and not overthinking it and talking yourself
out of a player like Jeremiah Love. You're not just
getting a running back at the third overall selection. You're
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getting somebody that's going to be an excellent weapon in
the passing game as well. So to me, I love
that pick for them. And then in the second round
they come back and they get one of the best
guards in the draft. So they did address what's going
to be in front of Jeremile of going forward. And
so to me, I think the Arizona Cardinals have had
a really interesting after this point. I'd even go as
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far as describing it as good to this point in
the process. And we are just not used to saying
that about the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, no, we're not. But obviously they've had some changes
over there and they're just looking at things as I mean,
a true rebuild, but they're actually acting like it throughout
the draft, and you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Know it, but that's just it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It is difficult.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You know, you're you're rebuilding, you're kind of acknowledging that
you're rebuilding. I mean, you can you can try to
play the game off. We got to build this up
before we can build this up. Now, you got a
great player on the board, you think he's the best player,
take the take the best player. And I think a
few teams screwed up with Caleb Downs. Like everybody, if
you're trying to hit the home run or trying to
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you know, trying to eat dessert before you actually have
the meal, then you're making a mistake. You have an opportunity,
go ahead and take the surefire double, take the stand
up triple. You don't have to always try to swing
for the fences and hit the home run. If you
think Jeremiah Love looks like a camp Miss running back,
take the camp Miss running back, and you can build
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your offensive line going forward around that. So as somebody
that's you know, follows a team, covers a team, roots
for a team that's in the same division, I would
have love for the Cardinals to take an offensive lineman
and not have to think about facing Jeremiah Love for
the next few years. Because I'll tell you what. Back
in that twenty twenty three draft, which we now know
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was absolutely loaded, that was the Witherspoon JSN draft, the
Cardinals got a pretty good offensive lineman in Paris Johnson.
They look pretty good offensive lineman Paris Johnson at sixth
But you know who they didn't draft, Dejon Robinson when
they could have Jamiir Gibbs, who they could have JSN,
who they could have. I'm sure glad they took an
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offensive lineman. So everybody that thinks that the Cardinals aren't
ready to add weapons like Jeremiah Love, they got to
build everything else up first, Fooie, go ahead and take
something that you think is special. You've got the third
overall selection. Don't take a guard who you don't even
value that highly just because you think you've got to
build up the interior before you add weaponry on the outside.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I would completely agree. And also I find that when
it comes to the weaponry that you're talking about on
the outside is or you know, whatever base that you want,
I feel like it is easier to build that up
rather than those true weapons, the missiles that you can
get in a draft. You know, you can build those
up within your system more easily than obtaining a missile
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as such as Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, yeah, I mean I get it. I get the
argument running backs or Diamond doesn't. I kind of subscribe
to that. But that's after. That doesn't include Jeremiah Loves,
that doesn't include Agent.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
He's those guys are special.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
B Jean Robinson, you could have taken with the first
overall pick and not had to apologize for it. He's
just they're special ones. Since oh, to me, like, you know,
this doesn't fall in that category, why would you try
to get something Why would you pass on something special
just because you think that you. I mean, you can
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build up your offensive line with second, third, fourth, fifth
round picks over time. You absolutely can do that. To me,
the chance to get a weapon like Love, a weapon
like Robinson, that's when you take them in the top
ten of a draft. So I think they made an
excellent pick there at number three, and I think that
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they've had a pretty good draft to this point. We'll
talk more about that coming up a little bit later on.
It is our NFL Draft coverage. Again. We are at
pick number one, seventy eight of the fifth round of
the NFL Draft, and then in the sixth round of
the draft, we are going to have two picks for
the Seahawks that will be made. At that point we
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might be actually, yeah, that's right. We are one seventy
eight of round number five. Philadelphia Eagles are on. So
we'll talk more about what the Seahawks have done to
this stage in the process and what they still have
to do before it's all over with our draft coverage
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Jessemin McIntyre with you Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Our twenty twenty six NFL Draft coverage continues. My name
is Chuck Pile. Jessemen McIntyre with you as well as
we are toward the end of round number five of
the NFL Draft and less than ten picks away from
the seahawks next selection, which would be the one and
eighty eighth overall in round number six. So we'll get
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to that at a moment. Certainly great to be here
at the Virgin in your Mason Athletics Center. Appreciate the
Seahawks hosting us. Uh, you know, Uh, Dave Pearson, John
Schneider met me outside, hugged me as father draft miss,
you know, just like thanked me for all the good
I've been doing in the world.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Oh, well, did you have a sack of gifts for them?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
No, they had him for me. They got me some
cologne and some stress socks.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Oh, they should have given you deodorant.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Well, had I known, it probably is at the bottom
of the bag. I should have known. I should have
probably always worked.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But also nice to be around all of these dignitaries here,
I mean Matt Caulkins with his fresh haircut here on
drafts well, and he got a bowflex a couple of
years ago. So he's, you know, one of the few
that works here in the Seattle media.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
That is that the one that goes back and forth.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Chuck Norris had a bowflex and so you know, Caulkins
has always wanted to be the next Chuck Norris.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Oh well, there is a filling.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
So yeah, there we go. Dave Bowling is here, the
legendary Dave Bulls. Great to see him. So yes, surrounded
by all sorts of celebrities here today and our day
number three draft coverage, and we are just a few
picks away from the Seahawks making another selection. So what
do they possibly consider here? It's very interesting. I just
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pulled up just one. I'm going to mention whose board
it is, but to just that random board of best available,
it's very interesting. Xavian Harris is the top of this list.
He's a six foot eight inch, three hundred and thirty
pound defensive lineman out of Ole Miss and they kind
of used him as how he long. They put him
at five technique three technique. One technique is a nose tackle.
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He blocked like five field goals while he was in
the National Football League and stuff like that, that Mike
McDonald could possibly play with that kind of clay that
he could mold with his genius hands on the defensive
side of the ball, I would certainly think from a
player perspective, there'd be a lot of intrigue there. But
on the other end, there's another aspect to this, and
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that's the character and this is why this talented monster
of a football player is falling. He was arrested three
times while he was in college at Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Some red flags, yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Some red flags there, but certainly somebody worth entertaining. Speaking
of red flags, Harold Perkins, junior out of LSU as
a linebacker who before he had a really devastating injury
at LSU. I mean, he started at LSU as a
true freshman and was one of their best defensive players.
The guy could flat fly before his knee injury. He
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hasn't he played this past season, didn't have near the
numbers as in this past season as he had as
a freshman and a sophomore at LSU. So is that
that he's never going to recover from that knee injury
he keeps falling in this draft or did he need
a year plus in order to recover from it. He'd
be an interesting gamble, But of course he's got some
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medical red flags right there. But he's an interesting name
that is still on the board. Jamari Taylor, wide receiver
out of Virginia visited the Seahawks. Are they completely out
of the running back market because they got Jadarian Price
in round number one? Or is that running back room
without Ken Walker and without Zach charbonnay for a while?
I mean, is it out of the question to take
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a running back Le'Veon Moss of Texas A and m
K Tron Allen, who is a very productive running back
at Penn State. I mean, are you completely out of
the running back game just because you've drafted one? You
did add a couple of extra picks you weren't you
didn't have at the beginning of this process, Jess. So
I do wonder if maybe they would add a little
extra competition at running back.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Yeah, I mean, you can't really add too much to
a room, right when it comes to especially an area
of need, especially with Zach being out for you know,
an indeterminate amount of time. We never know how those
injuries will end up healing. Obviously, we're hopeful to see
him maybe October Ish is with I don't know, having
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seen the injury before, that is a hope for me.
I'm not a doctor, but uh yeah, yeah, that's what
my dad wishes. But anyway, no, I I just I
don't see, because then you're looking at Halani, you know,
you're looking at just yes, just a drop off when
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it comes in. That's no offense to anybody, but a
drop off when it comes to talents. So when you
have price in there, you have your RB one. I
don't see the problem in that, as long as you
don't iced capital or you know, when you it could
be used on another position. I do like that they
drafted guard too. I think that that was an excellent
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choice in bo.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Well, yeah, I don't think that I would add running back,
but I don't think it's out of a question.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
I wouldn't go crazy if they did.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I don't think it's out of the question the possible,
especially if there's value there. And then of course there's
the edge rush position, which we all on our radio
station certainly believe that they would at some pointed at
edge rusher depth. Now maybe at this stage in the
process we're talking about sixth round. I don't. Maybe you
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felt that in the first couple of days you add
an edge rusher that can compete and provide depth and
participate right away. Maybe you don't feel in the sixth
round you can find that guy. So would you maybe
try to address some other area of depth, somebody that
can play special teams, which has become such a hallmark
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for this current Seattle Seahawks team. I mean, they were
excellent at special teams this past year, and certainly when
you're having such success, you're going to double down in
those areas that have led to your success. But if
I were to throw somebody out, just looking at this
board that's in front of me, Caden Curry from Ohio
State is still on the board, and he's not exactly
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your r Mason Thomas Lean linear speed around the edge
kind of defensive end. He's more of the like bulky,
you know, push back into the tackle face, you know,
throw the lineman aside, make the play type of defensive end.
But he is an animal, and anybody that is a
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fan of the Washington Huskies knows he's an animal because
he destroyed the Huskies, like single handedly destroyed the Husky
this past year. So I mean, Cayden Curry's at this.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Still on the board is questionable.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Actually, I mean, from an athletic standpoint, is not the
most athletic dude in the world. So there might be
a concern about whether or not that those athletic traits
do practical position.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
I would like to see them first address.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, but maybe the athletic traits don't transition to the
National Football League. But there's no doubt that's a football
player right there, and he had a tremendous career at
Ohio State, and Husky fans saw him up close and
personal just kind of blow up the entire offense this
past season. Now, it turns out he had a lot
of great guys around him that probably contributed mightily to that,
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and Curry just ended up with the statistics. But he
was a fantastic college football player, and he's still on
the board. So maybe somebody that they consider as they
get ready to pick here at one eighty eight and
then again at two sixteen. So we'll keep you updates.
Should be getting that pick in our next segment. So
we'll go ahead and take this break here from the
(47:30):
Virginia Mason Athletics Center, make sure that we are alive
on the air for you to hear the next Seahawk
pick at one eighty eight in the draft. And so
I'm back with more from the NFL Draft coverage on
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, good Saturday afternoon. My name is Chuck Powell. Welcome
into our draft coverage as it continues on Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJR FM, day number three of
the National Football League Draft. We are in the midst
of the fifth round as we speak, with the Seahawks
having a couple of draft picks awaiting us in round
number six. I'm here to sort of I love this segment,
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this three hour block that I have on Saturdays, because
it gives me the opportunity not only to update you
on some picks, but we don't have to necessarily be
focused on all of the picks at this stage in
the draft. It gives us plenty of opportunity, plenty of
room for activities here this afternoon to kind of recap
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all of the activity that has taken place to this
point in the draft. So I love it. I embrace it.
My boss ps himself always ask me every year, which
shift do you want? I say, Saturday noon to three,
And so here we are. Jessmine McIntyre is here as well.
We'll be updating you with any kind of interviews that
we get from the podium as we go. Jackson Felts
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is already here for us three o'clock shift. So we
got your covered nice job by Ian and Rob rang
here this morning, along with a collection of guests that
we'll probably tap into in our three hours together as well.
So happy Draft Day to everyone out.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I know, did you get to open your presence, your
Draftmas presence?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Of course, yes, I mean you. Well, it's been an
interesting draft to this point for the Seahawks. I do
think that they have satisfied some needs. And I know
a lot of general managers don't acknowledge that we draft
for need, but they do, and so we'll certainly discuss
that as we go. But yes, as a person that
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has an invented a holiday on our airwaves around this
sporting event, yeah, it's been a great draft miss thus far.
And it's a strange thing, yes about Saturday. I don't
know why it is, but it's always the best weather
day of the entire year. Oh my gosh, Saturday at
the Draft.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And the lake just teases us. I know it's a
beautiful view, but I just want to be out fishing
with those guys right now. I want to be that
bald eagle that just flew by. I mean even I
can look at the twelve flag that is out there
right on the edge of the practice field and it
is just hanging down. There's not even a breeze. It's
such perfect weather. So those of you out there, hopefully
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you're walking around listening on the iHeart app up to us.
It's not stuck inside.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's every year like the Saturday of the Draft is
like the best weather day of the entire year. I
don't know why that happens, but it does. I think
it's just I think it's God's way of saying, nice job, Draft,
and thanks for doing my work.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Chuck. You chose this shift. You get to be right
here and look at the beauty that I created. That's
right right when it comes to draftmas Man created.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The draft, but I created the weather for you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah. So the one Draftmas present I was going to
ask you about was kind of like what I would
call an anti gift because I come in with the
late surprises. How surprised were you when they traded a
fourth round pick for next year to trade up in
the fifth round to get a guard?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Uh? Well, I'm a little surprised because I did kind
of cross paths with John Schneider this morning, the moment
that I got here, and he was just to kind
of get in his coffee for the day and probably
his fourth cup, and and he I said, don't you
have something to do right now? And his reaction was, no, Oh,
I don't. I don't have anything to do right now
(04:02):
because they weren't drafted till the sixth round, and so
many people have said that this wasn't going to be
some loaded up draft, and so maybe this is the
right year to only have four picks. But I don't
know if he can help himself. I think that if
you've ever done a keeper league and any like fantasy,
and sometimes you keep more players than you did before
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the previous year, and then you sit in on the
draft day and you sit there and like, Bolly, I
really wish I was drafting right now. I mean, I
like the guys that I kept, but I kind of
wish I was drafting there are a lot of these
players that are going by. So I don't know if
it was out of pure boredom that he decided to
move into the fifth round and get both Stevens or
if he just couldn't resist the player. But yes, he
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gets both Stevens out of Iowa. So I would say
a little surprised, not overly surprised.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, I guess we were all just waiting for the
sixth round, right like we were sitting here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's a nice, little pleasant surprise for you, John Kipp
from the God it was.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was wonderful. John came through. I had to hold
up a sign I still have it right here. That's
the Yaks are on the clock. I held it up
for Ian, so I'll let you know the same thing.
I figured it would come into Indy. But yeah, I
saw John when I was walking in around eight fifteen
this morning. You know, he was just getting in and
then he came up here in the nine o'clock hour,
just walking through and saying his hellos to everybody. Were like,
(05:23):
oh man, he is too relaxed for there to be
anything happening, right and uh and lo and behold is
a good actor.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Next thing you know you're on the clock and you
grab a guard from Iowa. So, yes, we got a
lot to do today. I'll tell you this. I was
so excited about getting here today that I completely drove
to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center and forgot to put
on me my deodorant. So I had to go to
the mini mart right before I got here.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The one right next to the y, yeah, right, and
one right next to the is a godsend.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I bought an eleven dollars stick of deal eleven dollars
of deodorant because I didn't want anybody coming away from
this thinking I was right during my draft coverage. But
it was well worth it. So what has two thumbs
and smells like cucumber and cactus water? Today? This guy,
this guy right here, I picked the best thing that
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they had. Yes, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That sounds refreshing to me.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well I feel refreshed. Yeah, light as a feather. So
all right, well let's get you up to date. If
you're just now, like you know, got the lawn mode
this morning on a gorgeous day, and now you just
cracked open a beer and you've turned on your favorite
radio station and the Galaxy, and you want to know
what's going on with the NFL Draft, let me just
give me a give you a quick recap of like
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everything that has happened. First of all, from the Seahawks perspective,
this is what they've done since Thursday, thirty second pick
in the first round, Jadarian Price, the running back out
of Notre Dame. Second round yesterday, sixty fourth overall. There
was another stick and pick move by the sea Hawks.
Bud Clark out of TCU. Cornerback slash safety, probably safety
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slash cornerback safety with cornerback coverage skills is how he's described.
Uh six eight out of Texas Christian University. Experienced player
was there for six years, so a lot of playing
time at the college level. Four four one, so it's
got some speed to him. Bud Clark the second round selection,
and then at the tail end of last night's festivities,
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a little slight trade down to ninety nine from ninety
six that allowed the Seahawks pick up another sixth rounder,
two hundred and sixteenth overall, which we'll get to later
on this afternoon. And then at ninety nine they take
Julian Neil, who apparently won over the Seattle media Hoard
with his first interview with the media.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Sure did. We could take a listen back to that
if you want to, because it was yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Long armed cornerback out of Arkansas and feisty, feisty character,
two hundred and three pounds, four four nine forty at
the combined forty inch vertical leap and a physical presence
at the cornerback position out of Arkansas. So that was
what happened before today. What's happened today for the Seahawks,
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no pick in the fourth round, and then that surprise
move that Jess mentioned into the fifth round where they
moved a fourth rounder for next year's draft to the
Cleveland Browns in exchange for Bo Stevens, six foot five inch,
three hundred and fifteen pound guard out of Iowa. I mean,
I'm not going to sit here and try to tell
you I know Bo Stevens and everything that makes him tick.
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But I will say this, and this should give you
a little bit of comfort on a cold day in
the fall, and that is that Bo Stevens is somebody
that is out of Iowa and they are famous for
their development of sound fundamentally sound offensive lineman and they
actually this past year won the award for best offensive
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line in the entire country. So he's off of the
best offensive line in college football from a year ago
and now he is a member of the Seahawks. Bo
Stevens the selection in the fifth round at one forty
eight to the Hawks, and they still have two picks
in the sixth round, one eighty eight and two sixteen,
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which we'll get to a little bit later on this afternoon,
so stay with us for that as the picks come
off the board. So that's what the Seahawks have done
thus far in the twenty twenty six NFL drafting. I
guess my analysis of it, my reaction to it is
I realize what Mike McDonald said last night, We aren't
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just trying to find direct replacements for the guys that
we lost in free agency. We weren't just trying to
find a body type to replace Kobe Bryant and a
body type to replace Rieke Woolan. That said, that's exactly
what you've done.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's not just bodies. Well's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's you. Okay, okay, okay, okay, I get it, all right.
We're gonna believe that you had a board you followed
your board. But the truth of the matter is that
you lost a running back in the offseason to free
agency that seemed to be your biggest need. And with
your first pick, you got a running back. And then
the second best player that you lost was Kobe Bryant
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via free agency. And what did you do. You got
a safety with cover skills, with experience at college who's
really bright and football savvy. That sounds like Kobe Bryant
to me.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, yeah, I mean there's a lot of similarities you
can make when it comes to length, weight, height, and
savvy when it comes to football players. But what I
heard over the last two days from each and every
person that has spoken is that they are a bona
fide Seahawk. I just think that there's more beyond that
that they also.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
When I get what you're saying, though, but they check
all those boxes of you know, but we lost I mean,
maybe it's just total coincidence, or maybe that was really
that was part of the fabric of your decision was
we've lost a running back, we need to replace him.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Let's get this guy. We really like him. We lost
a safety that we really love who has cover skills
and can play Nickel and plays hard and plays like
Kobe Bryant. And it just so happens that all the
measurements and all of that stuff sort of coincide. And yes,
we lost a really rangy, tall cornerback and free agency
to the Philadelphia Eagles, Andreke Wolan, And then the third round,
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what did we get a really tall, rangy cornerback to
replace him? Mean, he's not the athlete therek Wolan is,
but he's also some of the things that frustrated us
about Reke woll And this guy seems to have like
a true physical nature about him, a true football's first
kind of mentality, and not wolfing at the opponent seemed
to be at times Requolan's primary mode of operation. And
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so look, this isn't Julian Neil is Reek Woolan, but
you do in the National Football League have to keep
in mind there are tall, rangey wide receivers. Do we
have a tall, rangy cornerback to match up against them?
And so I get like, strategically everybody wants a taller cornerback.
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It just so happens that our third best player that
we lost in the offseason was Reek Woolan. And we've
replaced him in the third round with a rangey, tall cornerback.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean, yeah, when you put it that way, Chuck,
it makes a little bit as sense there. But also
that's meeting the needs that the immediate needs that you have, right,
because their base, the core of their team is still
so solid. They didn't i mean, losing Kenneth Walker, Yeah,
that stinks, right, I mean, but we're we all surprised.
I mean, they just couldn't afford to keep him for
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what the Chiefs paid for him, So, like, I get it,
but filling those immediate needs. I mean I was sitting
right up there when John Schneider came out and spoke
after that, and I've never seen him not excited before
in a press conference. Uh, they wanted him so badly.
They wanted that kid at that pick, but they thought
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they could get him later, right, And nobody played ball.
I'll show you my little sheet here when it comes
to this, when they chose price, Look at all the
trades that happened later on that round. Nobody wanted to
play ball with them. Yeah, and so yeah, it's just arrow, arrow, arrow,
and everything goes around Seattle. And and so they did.
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They definitely wanted Jedarian, but they definitely thought that they
could get a little more value in the draft and
get him later.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well yes, uh it, you know, it's just and I
don't think John's guilty of this. I think a lot
of other general managers are guilty of this. And I
don't know why, no, no, no, we driven draft ford need.
I think John does acknowledge that we. Yes, of course
we draft for need. You have to draft for need
on occasion. But it really won as a needy draft.
There were some needs and they weren't great. I mean,
this is a Super Bowl champion that you know, had
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the youngest team in the National Football League this past year.
It kind of felt like the Seahawks are playing with
house money in this year's draft and next year's draft.
You still have, even with the trade today, ten picks
in order to kind of bolster some areas going forward
and into the future. But for this particular draft, I mean,
of all the teams in the National Football League, the
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Seahawks kind of felt like they had the fewest needs
out there, and yet what did they do with their
first three picks? What needs that we did believe that
they had, they did kind of fill with the exception
of edge rusher, they still have not taken an edge
rusher to provide depth so far in this draft, and
maybe in round six at pick one eighty eight and
pick two sixteen, you're not going to find a guy
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that is going to get a lot of playing time,
but you might still it might be a matter of
trying to add some depth to that position. But it's
felt certainly like there were a few holes that were
created through free agency, and we did with our first
three selections kind of fill those holes with similar body
types that we had prior to the offseason, and so
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Jadarian Price, Blood Clark, Julian Neil all on the Seahawks
in this draft, plus some offensive line dep with Bo
Stevens out of Iowa. Let's talk about some other things
that have happened here today in case you are just
joining us here in our draft coverage on this Saturday.
Some interesting selections that were made here in round number four,
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Jermad McCoy, cornerback out of Las Vegas, who at one
point was projected as a mid first rounder. There were
a lot of knee concerns for McCoy and so he
started to slide and I'm not all that surprise that
after Day number two, teams had the chance to kind
of regroup, not on the clock anymore, and had an
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overnight to make some phone calls, talk to doctors, talk
to people that knew McCoy, talked to Tennessee, and there
was somebody out there that decided, Hey, we feel good
enough about what we learned medically about this young man's knee,
so let's move up to the first to the top
of the fourth round, and let's go ahead and grab him.
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And that team happened to be the Las Vegas Raiders,
So Jermad McCoy finally came off the board. You know,
it's got to be heartbreaking for a guy that spent
all that time in college building up his draft status,
getting ready for the National Football League, thought he was
a mid first rounder, and then all of a sudden,
medical reports come out and now he's just slid out
of day one, he slid out of Day two, and
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had to be thinking as he put his head on
the pillow last night, how far am I going to
slide in round number four or beyond? Well, it must
have been a big relief for him to get finally
selected today in round number four. Also, Cade Klubneck, cornerback
quarterback out of Clemson, went to the Jets and the
fourth round earlier today. This is somebody. I mean, I
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was just having this conversation prior to the show with
someone and this was supposed to be a quarterback draft.
At the beginning of last football season, there was a
belief that, man, wait till you see the quarterback class
for next year. Club Nick and Nussmyer and all of
these guys, well, they ended up going out there and
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having bad years, and so Kate Klubnick ends up slipping
down nus Meyers. I don't think nuss Meyer's still been drafted,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I have not seen him go.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah. And then a couple of guys stayed in school,
like Dante Moore stayed in school and DeNora Sellers from
South Carolina State in school.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So people are making money.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, exactly, and so not a quarterback rich draft. But
here is somebody in Club Nick, who at the beginning
of last football season people thought was going to be
a first rounder, had a bad year at Clemson, and
he ends up going in the fourth round in this
draft to the New York Jets. Jonah Colman went earlier
this this morning to the Denver Broncos. Strange that he
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was on the Chuck and Buck radio show last week
and I asked him which teams he had the best
feeling about, and he said the Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Well,
he ends up getting drafted by the Denver Bronx. Yeah,
uh so one eight overall. So Jonah Coleman's found a
home and mile high. Elijah Surratt, you remember him. He
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was the wide receiver for the Indiana Hoosiers. He was
taken in round number four by the Baltimore Ravens. Here today,
Mike Washington Junior, who was a name that we tossed
about for a month, maybe even longer than that at
KJAR and certainly in our draft miss holiday celebration on
Chuck and Buck. Mike Washington Junior finally went today in
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the middle of the fourth round and against the Raiders
who take Mike Washington Junior. I mean, I will admit this.
I didn't spend any time even his father Draftmas through
Mike Washington Junior's Arkansas tape lay.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Snap draft femiss.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I would imagine that Mike Washington junior probably doesn't have
real consistent tape as a college running back for all
the things that you're looking for for a pro running back.
But I'll say this from a highlight reel tape, I'm
not even sure Jeremiah loves highlights. We're more impressive than
Mike Washington juniors. I mean, he looks like a beast,
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and I do wonder how good he might become with
the Las Vegas Raiders under some better coaching and tutelage,
in this being his profession now, So I think that's
a heck of a gamble by the Raiders, who somehow
had a really good draft. I mean, well, I'm gonna
talk about this a little bit later on in the show,
but I mean, three of the maybe four, of the
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organization's most famous for bumbling drafts, I'm putting the top
of having great drafts this year. The Raiders, the Browns,
the Jets, the Cardinals, in my estimation, have had great drafts.
And they are they have. They are historically terrible at
this exercise.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We don't know how it's gonna pan out.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh that's the worst part, of course, And maybe you know,
maybe we're reading it wrong. I certainly open up the
door to being wrong about this, But it just kind
of feels like all of those teams are getting great
value and are using the process wisely. And I normally
don't say that at the end of the day about
any of those organizations, and yet it feels to me
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like they have four of the best grades going right now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I would say you're correct, except I say that growing up,
you know, on the Long Island, a jets offficionado, that
I don't trust anything that they do, and I've seen
a lot of things that look like good ideas end
up not going well through poor management decisions. I'll just
put it as a blanket with management decisions. But I
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agree with you. I don't want to see the Cardinals
get better because we already have murderers row in the
NFC Wests. We don't need them to get good.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, they're still a little ways from being good anything they.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Are, but they're doing a proper rebuild right now, and
they have made the right moves in the draft as
far as what I've seen so far, you're correct.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I'm going to get to some reasons why I
feel that a little bit later on in our time
together here, this afternoon. But in this first segment, let
me continue to just recap what's happened here today. Some
other names that you might be interested in. The twenty
seventh pick in the fourth round one twenty seven overall,
Carver Willis out of U DUB went to the San
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Francisco forty nine Ers, and then another U DUB player,
Ephesian's price Sock, ended up going to the forty nine
Ers as well at pick number thirty nine in round
number four, and then to round number five. A former
U DUB player, Parker Brailsford, the center who went to Alabama,
who followed Kaylin to board Alabama and ended up having
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a sound career with the Crimson Tide. He ends up
going in the fifth round, sixth pick of the fifth
round to the Cleveland Browns. Emmett Johnson, who I just think,
I mean his athleticism. He didn't have a great forty
and he carried the ball a lot at Nebraska, and
so maybe people are a little worried at smaller size
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that durability wise might not be a great fit in
the National Football League. I think that's reflective and where
he ended up being drafted in round five for goodness,
sake at one sixty one overall. But let me tell
you something, if you're just looking for somebody, if Emmett
Johnson's ass about his draft status, he just has to
throw out that classic line, go watch the tape, because
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you go watch Emmitt Johnson play football, and that that's
a dog right there. So he goes to the Kansas
City Chiefs to back up Ken Walker in round number
five of this draft today. Another familiar name to college
football fans. If you watched more than just your local team,
you've surely heard of Nicholas Singleton, the running back out
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of Penn State. Well, he went in round number five
as well. He's now a Tennessee Titan. And then Sunny
Styles brother just went Lorenzo Styles Junior, the speedster out
of Ohio State, who may not have a position, you know,
it wasn't exactly his brother at the college level, and
yet he ended up just going now to the New
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Orleans Saints with the one hundred and seventy second pick
in this draft. So that's some of the things that
happened today, and we still have ways to go. We
got two plus rounds yet remaining, including the Seahawks picking
twice in round number six. I'll keep reiterating that in
our afternoon together at one eighty eight and two sixteen,
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those are the picks remaining. So that gets you up
to speed with where we're at. We certainly have a
lot of things to discuss and to analyze. We got
plenty of people in this room that know a thing
or three about football that will probably float onto our
airwaves over the course of the next two and a
half hours together. But I think that we have set
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the table for you this afternoon, so we will take
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Speaker 3 (24:21):
Where to find myself there later.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, Bob Candota is famous for his trivia knowledge there.
He's treated like a god. He's treated like C three
po by the e walks. When he walks in there,
they just put him in a throne and carry him around.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You know what, I would really pay a lot of
money to see that. I like a lot a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Let's make it happen, all right, So stick with us.
We are live from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Our
coverage of the NFL Draft continues right here at Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M. ParvE A,
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good afternoon. It is Chuck Powell broadcasting a lot, continuing
our draft coverage right here at Sports Radio ninety three
point three KHRFM. Great to have you with us. I'm
gonna take it till three o'clock today, then hand things
over to Jackson Feltson company. They'll start at three o'clock
as we guide you through the rest of these picks,
just to get you updated on what might have happened.
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We got through pick one seventy three in the draft
and round number three, and so excuse me, round number five,
I should say, round number six. Well, that's where John
Schneider has two picks still to make in this draft,
at one eighty eight and at two sixteen. He has
made a pick today if you are just joining us.
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He traded into today's draft into round number five, pick
one forty eight overall, and grab Bo Stevens guard out
of Iowa to add to the offensive line depth, and
that cost the Seahawks one of their fourth rounders for
next year. As next year they had eleven picks and
now down to ten, but that's still plenty for them
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to have next season. So that's what's happening here, and
so we will certainly keep you up to date. We'll
throw Rob rang back on the airwaves a little bit
later on as well to talk about the picks that
are still upcoming for the Seahawks. So great to have
you with us. We're also in the midst of that
round where almost all the picks and television are made
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to kind of build the game globally, so it's always
like fun to see some kite maker from Luxembourg, you know,
tell us who the Buccaneers are taking next. So that's
we're in that. We're in that span of time as well,
you know, talking about you know, some cab driver from
you know, neck Paul telling you that the Jets just
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picked a guard and they love him. So that's where
we're at in this stage of the NFL draft. So yes,
we'll keep you up to speed as to what's going
on in rounds six. I'll say this, it's been quite
the interesting draft for the NFC West to this point.
I mean, I think maybe some of the most fascinating
storylines are coming out of the division. The Seahawks by
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comparison just looks so bland and so solid, you know,
and that's not a bad thing, by the way. I
know bland might sound like it's a criticism, but not
with the upheaval that's happening around us in the division.
I mean, it's just for the Seahawks, it's been like
solid pick kind of like for the most part, stick
and pick, you know, stay and play. So there's all
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the picks have made sense from a need standpoint, and
from a holes standpoint, and from a talent standpoint, and
from a Seahawks standpoint. Yeah, they've certainly emphasized more in
recent years. They seem to really be hitting the character
of a player has to be there for them to
draft them. I love that about I think it's a
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little bit of a change in that direction here in
the last few years. Experience has been something but also
a Seahawk type player, and so they're kind of drilling
home on that. So nothing seems outlandish in this draft,
even the trade up. We've got excess draft picks next year,
so let's get into the fifth round, get some offensive
line depth, and just get a really fundamentally sound piece
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in both Stevens. I mean, so I don't know of
anybody at the end of this process, not that I
love the grading system that goes on after the drafts
are over. I don't know if anybody's going to give
the Seahawks an A or an A plus. But if
they come away with just a solid B, that's probably
what you're going to be seeing from all of the
guys that do grade drafts, because it's just like solid, solid, solid,
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solid solid. Meanwhile, and the guys around us in this division, man,
the Rams continue to get hit hard for the ty
Simpson selection, and Seahawk fans continue to feel great about
the ty Simpson selection. You're our closest competitor for the division,
maybe for the Super Bowl next year, and yet you
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decided to use the thirteenth overall pick on something that
won't play for three years, maybe four years. In ty
Simpson and even their subsequent picks after Simpson they seem
a bit odd. And so the Rams have kind of
been crushed by a lot of the national analysts for
the drafts that they've had, and then you've got the
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side show of what's going on between Snead and McVeigh.
They've tried to explain that they are in lockstep. That's
the word that they use to describe that. Yes, we
were both really excited about ty Simpson. The only problem
is one of them looked like he was pissed about
ty Simpson, and that is head coach Sean McVay. They've
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tried to explain it. I still don't know if people
are buying it. I think he was wearing his emotions
on his sleeve. And I'm not saying that Lesnie did
something to Colcock Sean McVay to blindside Sean McVeigh with
the Ty Simpson selection, but it did at least feel
like I don't really agree with this wholeheartedly. I would
like to do something else. And even though we've had
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a lot of discussions about Simpson and liking him as
a quarterback and maybe our quarterback of the future, boy,
when you are in a championship window and you're taking
a backup quarterback and the Seahawks are filling all their needs,
it feels like we're doing ourselves maybe a little bit
of a disservice. It feels like we're doing Matt Stafford
a little bit of a disservice. So I love it.
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I'm here for it. The drama in Los Angeles feels real,
and I don't know if we'll ever know the truth
behind it, but I just I and a lot of
other people, even after the explanation that was given yesterday,
have kind of walked away from it thinking that Sean
McVay was not happy about that selection. And then the
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forty nine ers have had an odd stretch of picks.
I think they've had a fine second day. Romelo Height,
the edge guy out of Texas Tech, I think a
good value pick in round number two. I liked Kaylon
Black out of Indiana, but I didn't think he'd go
as high as third round. And then there's been a
lot of talk about Dejan Stribbling, the wide receiver out
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of Old miss Who. Dejean Stribling is somebody that I
saw in my draft preparation that a lot of people
had graded as a mid day three selection. Even though
I did like him as a college player, I was
a little surprised that people were grading him that low.
And then for them to come out of day number two,
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the very first pick all that time to think about it,
traded down twice to get there, and for them to
come away and say, now this is the guy we won.
This is the guy that's at the top of our board.
Dejeans stribbling, And there seems to be a little bit
of controversy around that that maybe Kyle Shanahan wasn't all
on board with that pick.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But lest we forget, he played for the Koogs as well.
I did get to cover him and saw a lot
of potential, and I I think he got a lot
better once he went to He was there during the
COVID years and you know, went through the Nick Rolovich
and the Jake Dicker transition and everything. And I do
not blame him for going to Ole Miss. I don't
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think anyone felt bad. But he got a lot better
once he went elsewhere. And I think that at least
from me watching his college evolution, they see a lot
of potential for continued growth.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but I don't know if anybody's I think when
this process is over, I don't know if anybody's going
to be great in the forty nine ers. So highly
it seemed like an odd pick at the time. It
certainly seemed like somebody who could still move down and
get later on in the draft.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was texting with an unnamed source with the Niners
the other day who told me he loved his tape,
and so there was something about him that they really saw.
But I also agree with you when we're looking at
them in the division, like I was talking about the
murderers row that we're seeing in the NFC West, that
I don't mind seeing them maybe make some questionable of this.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. I mean they've been talked about,
I know from a national perspective, and I know we've
been talking about it locally, but we also have a
little bit of bias. Maybe we're looking a little bit
for them to screw up.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Hey, I want to see any little cracks.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, coxactly, But maybe we're evaluating it with a really
close eye. And so because emotionally we'd like to see
them screw up, maybe we're reading into it. But that
does not sound like that's the case. It sounds like
nationally most people think the Rams and forty nine ers
have had some pretty weird drafts to this point. So
and those are the key division rivals. Now I mentioned
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in the first segment, I think the Arizona Cardinals have
had a great draft. Of course, they seem a long
way away from being the Seahawks or the Rams or
the forty nine ers. So they probably need a couple
of really strong drafts before they can catch up to
the rest of the group. But I think they've had
a great draft to this point. And there have been
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people nationally they've criticized the Jeremiah Love selection and saying,
you don't take a third pick, you don't take a
running back when they've got so much else to build
up around them. I think that's fooey. The Arizona Cardinals
need to get in the habit of just when you've
got a chance to get a great player, get a
great player, you don't start playing the game of you
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know WHOA wait, maybe we got to build this up first,
right now, start making good picks. I mean, that's the
best way to heal your organization's woes is to start
having good drafts and not overthinking it and talking yourself
out of a player like Jeremiah Love. You're not just
getting a running back at the third overall selection. You're
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getting somebody that's going to be an excellent weapon in
the passing game as well. So to me, I love
that pick for them. And then in the second round
they come back and they get one of the best
guards in the draft. So they did address what's going
to be in front of Jeremile of going forward. And
so to me, I think the Arizona Cardinals have had
a really interesting after this point. I'd even go as
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far as describing it as good to this point in
the process. And we are just not used to saying
that about the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, no, we're not. But obviously they've had some changes
over there and they're just looking at things as I mean,
a true rebuild, but they're actually acting like it throughout
the draft, and you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Know it, but that's just it.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It is difficult.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You know, you're you're rebuilding, you're kind of acknowledging that
you're rebuilding. I mean, you can you can try to
play the game off. We got to build this up
before we can build this up. Now, you got a
great player on the board, you think he's the best player,
take the take the best player. And I think a
few teams screwed up with Caleb Downs. Like everybody, if
you're trying to hit the home run or trying to
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you know, trying to eat dessert before you actually have
the meal, then you're making a mistake. You have an opportunity,
go ahead and take the surefire double, take the stand
up triple. You don't have to always try to swing
for the fences and hit the home run. If you
think Jeremiah Love looks like a camp Miss running back,
take the camp Miss running back, and you can build
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your offensive line going forward around that. So as somebody
that's you know, follows a team, covers a team, roots
for a team that's in the same division, I would
have love for the Cardinals to take an offensive lineman
and not have to think about facing Jeremiah Love for
the next few years. Because I'll tell you what. Back
in that twenty twenty three draft, which we now know
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was absolutely loaded, that was the Witherspoon JSN draft, the
Cardinals got a pretty good offensive lineman in Paris Johnson.
They look pretty good offensive lineman Paris Johnson at sixth
But you know who they didn't draft, Dejon Robinson when
they could have Jamiir Gibbs, who they could have JSN,
who they could have. I'm sure glad they took an
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offensive lineman. So everybody that thinks that the Cardinals aren't
ready to add weapons like Jeremiah Love, they got to
build everything else up first, Fooie, go ahead and take
something that you think is special. You've got the third
overall selection. Don't take a guard who you don't even
value that highly just because you think you've got to
build up the interior before you add weaponry on the outside.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I would completely agree. And also I find that when
it comes to the weaponry that you're talking about on
the outside is or you know, whatever base that you want,
I feel like it is easier to build that up
rather than those true weapons, the missiles that you can
get in a draft. You know, you can build those
up within your system more easily than obtaining a missile
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as such as Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, yeah, I mean I get it. I get the
argument running backs or Diamond doesn't. I kind of subscribe
to that. But that's after. That doesn't include Jeremiah Loves,
that doesn't include Agent.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
He's those guys are special.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
B Jean Robinson, you could have taken with the first
overall pick and not had to apologize for it. He's
just they're special ones. Since oh, to me, like, you know,
this doesn't fall in that category, why would you try
to get something Why would you pass on something special
just because you think that you. I mean, you can
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build up your offensive line with second, third, fourth, fifth
round picks over time. You absolutely can do that. To me,
the chance to get a weapon like Love, a weapon
like Robinson, that's when you take them in the top
ten of a draft. So I think they made an
excellent pick there at number three, and I think that
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they've had a pretty good draft to this point. We'll
talk more about that coming up a little bit later on.
It is our NFL Draft coverage. Again. We are at
pick number one, seventy eight of the fifth round of
the NFL Draft, and then in the sixth round of
the draft, we are going to have two picks for
the Seahawks that will be made. At that point we
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might be actually, yeah, that's right. We are one seventy
eight of round number five. Philadelphia Eagles are on. So
we'll talk more about what the Seahawks have done to
this stage in the process and what they still have
to do before it's all over with our draft coverage
brought to you by Frost Brewed Cores, Light, Cold as
the Rockies and by Dino's Pub in Renton. Chuck Poalle
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Jessemin McIntyre with you Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Our twenty twenty six NFL Draft coverage continues. My name
is Chuck Pile. Jessemen McIntyre with you as well as
we are toward the end of round number five of
the NFL Draft and less than ten picks away from
the seahawks next selection, which would be the one and
eighty eighth overall in round number six. So we'll get
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to that at a moment. Certainly great to be here
at the Virgin in your Mason Athletics Center. Appreciate the
Seahawks hosting us. Uh, you know, Uh, Dave Pearson, John
Schneider met me outside, hugged me as father draft miss,
you know, just like thanked me for all the good
I've been doing in the world.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Oh, well, did you have a sack of gifts for them?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
No, they had him for me. They got me some
cologne and some stress socks.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Oh, they should have given you deodorant.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Well, had I known, it probably is at the bottom
of the bag. I should have known. I should have
probably always worked.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But also nice to be around all of these dignitaries here,
I mean Matt Caulkins with his fresh haircut here on
drafts well, and he got a bowflex a couple of
years ago. So he's, you know, one of the few
that works here in the Seattle media.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
That is that the one that goes back and forth.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Chuck Norris had a bowflex and so you know, Caulkins
has always wanted to be the next Chuck Norris.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Oh well, there is a filling.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
So yeah, there we go. Dave Bowling is here, the
legendary Dave Bulls. Great to see him. So yes, surrounded
by all sorts of celebrities here today and our day
number three draft coverage, and we are just a few
picks away from the Seahawks making another selection. So what
do they possibly consider here? It's very interesting. I just
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pulled up just one. I'm going to mention whose board
it is, but to just that random board of best available,
it's very interesting. Xavian Harris is the top of this list.
He's a six foot eight inch, three hundred and thirty
pound defensive lineman out of Ole Miss and they kind
of used him as how he long. They put him
at five technique three technique. One technique is a nose tackle.
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He blocked like five field goals while he was in
the National Football League and stuff like that, that Mike
McDonald could possibly play with that kind of clay that
he could mold with his genius hands on the defensive
side of the ball, I would certainly think from a
player perspective, there'd be a lot of intrigue there. But
on the other end, there's another aspect to this, and
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that's the character and this is why this talented monster
of a football player is falling. He was arrested three
times while he was in college at Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Some red flags, yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Some red flags there, but certainly somebody worth entertaining. Speaking
of red flags, Harold Perkins, junior out of LSU as
a linebacker who before he had a really devastating injury
at LSU. I mean, he started at LSU as a
true freshman and was one of their best defensive players.
The guy could flat fly before his knee injury. He
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hasn't he played this past season, didn't have near the
numbers as in this past season as he had as
a freshman and a sophomore at LSU. So is that
that he's never going to recover from that knee injury
he keeps falling in this draft or did he need
a year plus in order to recover from it. He'd
be an interesting gamble, But of course he's got some
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medical red flags right there. But he's an interesting name
that is still on the board. Jamari Taylor, wide receiver
out of Virginia visited the Seahawks. Are they completely out
of the running back market because they got Jadarian Price
in round number one? Or is that running back room
without Ken Walker and without Zach charbonnay for a while?
I mean, is it out of the question to take
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a running back Le'Veon Moss of Texas A and m
K Tron Allen, who is a very productive running back
at Penn State. I mean, are you completely out of
the running back game just because you've drafted one? You
did add a couple of extra picks you weren't you
didn't have at the beginning of this process, Jess. So
I do wonder if maybe they would add a little
extra competition at running back.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Yeah, I mean, you can't really add too much to
a room, right when it comes to especially an area
of need, especially with Zach being out for you know,
an indeterminate amount of time. We never know how those
injuries will end up healing. Obviously, we're hopeful to see
him maybe October Ish is with I don't know, having
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seen the injury before, that is a hope for me.
I'm not a doctor, but uh yeah, yeah, that's what
my dad wishes. But anyway, no, I I just I
don't see, because then you're looking at Halani, you know,
you're looking at just yes, just a drop off when
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it comes in. That's no offense to anybody, but a
drop off when it comes to talents. So when you
have price in there, you have your RB one. I
don't see the problem in that, as long as you
don't iced capital or you know, when you it could
be used on another position. I do like that they
drafted guard too. I think that that was an excellent
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choice in bo.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Well, yeah, I don't think that I would add running back,
but I don't think it's out of a question.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
I wouldn't go crazy if they did.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I don't think it's out of the question the possible,
especially if there's value there. And then of course there's
the edge rush position, which we all on our radio
station certainly believe that they would at some pointed at
edge rusher depth. Now maybe at this stage in the
process we're talking about sixth round. I don't. Maybe you
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felt that in the first couple of days you add
an edge rusher that can compete and provide depth and
participate right away. Maybe you don't feel in the sixth
round you can find that guy. So would you maybe
try to address some other area of depth, somebody that
can play special teams, which has become such a hallmark
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for this current Seattle Seahawks team. I mean, they were
excellent at special teams this past year, and certainly when
you're having such success, you're going to double down in
those areas that have led to your success. But if
I were to throw somebody out, just looking at this
board that's in front of me, Caden Curry from Ohio
State is still on the board, and he's not exactly
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your r Mason Thomas Lean linear speed around the edge
kind of defensive end. He's more of the like bulky,
you know, push back into the tackle face, you know,
throw the lineman aside, make the play type of defensive end.
But he is an animal, and anybody that is a
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fan of the Washington Huskies knows he's an animal because
he destroyed the Huskies, like single handedly destroyed the Husky
this past year. So I mean, Cayden Curry's at this.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Still on the board is questionable.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Actually, I mean, from an athletic standpoint, is not the
most athletic dude in the world. So there might be
a concern about whether or not that those athletic traits
do practical position.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
I would like to see them first address.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah, but maybe the athletic traits don't transition to the
National Football League. But there's no doubt that's a football
player right there, and he had a tremendous career at
Ohio State, and Husky fans saw him up close and
personal just kind of blow up the entire offense this
past season. Now, it turns out he had a lot
of great guys around him that probably contributed mightily to that,
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and Curry just ended up with the statistics. But he
was a fantastic college football player, and he's still on
the board. So maybe somebody that they consider as they
get ready to pick here at one eighty eight and
then again at two sixteen. So we'll keep you updates.
Should be getting that pick in our next segment. So
we'll go ahead and take this break here from the
(47:30):
Virginia Mason Athletics Center, make sure that we are alive
on the air for you to hear the next Seahawk
pick at one eighty eight in the draft. And so
I'm back with more from the NFL Draft coverage on
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. In a moment
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