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Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross.

Everyone loves a shiny new toy, okay?

Look, Colt Emerson hits a home run yesterday,

and we're all talking about how he's going to be the savior and Bump's sitting here going, guys, guys, everyone calm down. Okay? Don't forget about the guys on this team that are supposed to be a much bigger part of the playoff recipe here. Okay, fine, bump. We get it. And I'm going to take your approach to this Seahawks conversation, rather than, once again, looking at this incoming class of rookies going, oh, this guy can save your season, this guy can, well, not save your season, this guy can help you get back to a Super Bowl, this guy can be great, this guy can be great.

Let's look at the guys that already had their first year.

Let's not overlook last year's draft class and instead rank

the second year Seahawks by potential impact in 2026. This was inspired in part by a question

that we got for a Seahawks mailbag and they just said, who's going to have a better year

Tori Horton or Riley Mills? We answered it on air and we kind of talked about it a little bit,

but that it would be good to revisit and go, well, let's just not talk about those two. Let's go through quite a few of these names from the draft class and rank them by the potential impact we think they can have. I think we just start at the top rather than like going down to number one. Let's spend the most amount of time talking about the most impactful players. So who do you have at the top of your list? Well, before that, I'll just give people rundown who we're talking about. Some people don't, might have missed a few. They've forgotten. Robbie Outs, Tori Horton, Elijah O'Reilly, Bryce Cabledo, Mason Richmond, Gray Zabel, Jared Ivy, Connor O'Toole, Nick and Marwara, Ty O'Cotta, and Riley Mills.

I might be missing one in there. But those are essentially the guys. The biggest impact is Nicky Moore. He's number one. I mean, he is the guy who allows his defense to come out in that base nickel and do multiple things. He can play the linebacker spot. He can blitz the quarterback. He can cover safeties. He can drop into the zones. He can play men. Nick and Moire is the Swiss Army knife that kind of makes his defense go. All starts with that defensive line. But when it comes to being creative, Nick and Maure allows you to do that. So he's number one. Number two, you got to go at Gray's label. This guy played in every single game this year. Every single game he played. Maybe not have played every single snap. I remember he had rolled his ankle one game and had to take a player to a while. But this guy allows you to run the zone. When you're running that zone offense, your guards and your centers are essential. Yes, your tackles are as well, especially if you're on the back end. But your guards and your centers are the ones that create that double team. You block down on the one of the three, you climb to the linebackers, and that allows your running back to create his lanes or five the lanes that the office alignment have created and gray's abel's

ungrated that also when it comes to pass pro you're dealing with the bigger guys in tier

offensive linemen sometimes you're getting blitz by that second level maybe his safety comes down

and you deal with the stunts one guy disappears another guy on the edge swoops around you're

passing them off and you're catching so gray's able able, playing that offensive line spot, is huge.

You got your book in tackles.

You have your guard.

I think you have your center in Sundale.

So I was like Mike Beddonnell loves the center.

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