Hour 2: The Athletic's Nick Baumgardner on the Seahawks 1st Round Draft Pick
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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The Athletic’s Nick Baumgardner joins the show to talk about the NFL Draft and some names to watch for the Seahawks 1st round pick. // Four Down Territory: 1st Down: Why do you think player attendance at the draft is dropping? 2nd Down: Why should High school players consider WSU? 3rd Down: What mentality did John say he wants from draft picks that you like? 4th Down: Anything stand out from Nick Baumgardner? // The Timeline: Soccer fans are getting angry with FIFA over their misleading advertisement for their different sections of seats for the World Cup. The Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel drama saga series continues after the two were pictured in a bar together. There is now some controversy over Caleb Williams’ nickname ‘The Iceman’. // The unveiling of the Ichiro statue at T-Mobile Park took a turn as Ichiro’s bat was extremely bent. There was also a very hot take on the state of college football.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.6 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:19.1 | Talk in NFL draft with the athletics, Nick Baumgardner, right now on the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline. |
| 0:24.3 | Nick, how's it going? |
| 0:26.2 | Good. How are you guys doing? |
| 0:27.7 | Great. I'm going to start with kind of a general approach to the draft here, knowing that you're looking at it for every single team. |
| 0:34.2 | I think every draft is going to bring its own unique flavor. And some drafts are similar to others, right? |
| 0:38.9 | Like I'm sure that you'll find crossover. |
| 0:41.2 | Oh, 2020 was kind of like, you know, 2019 or whatever it is. |
| 0:45.4 | That being said, what kind of flavor, what kind of description would you use for this |
| 0:50.3 | year's draft class? |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, this is a defensive draft, a really good one. |
| 0:55.9 | And one that we don't really see often, I don't think. |
| 0:59.1 | It's not every year, I think, that we see this level of depth kind of at every position |
| 1:04.6 | defensively. |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, if you really think about it, this is a terrific safety class, a terrific linebacker |
| 1:09.7 | class, an above-average edge class, |
| 1:12.6 | I would say a good defensive tackle class and a good cornerback class. So this is a really, |
| 1:17.3 | really good and very deep defensive class. And I think one that probably actually ends up making |
| 1:22.8 | up for some of the lack of firepower on offense where, you know, we don't see too many quarterback, |
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