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Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

The Seahawks Top Pick Devon Witherspoon Completes the DB Room

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Football, Sports

4.7567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Our Seahawks seemed to take a "Good to Great" approach in this year's draft often choosing best player available even in areas where the team was already quite good. It didn't take long for John Schneider to showcase this philosophy taking elite Illinois cornerback with the 5th pick overall in the 2023 draft. We discuss how this thumper fits and what it does to a unit that was already well above average and what his presence allows for defensively as we head into the 2023 season. We also address why the Seahawks would have passed on addressing another key need and the draft trade that told us all we needed to know about the player.

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0:00.0

This is the Sea Hawkers podcast. I'm Brandon Schultz of the military Seahawkers.

0:11.0

And I am joined by my good buddy Adam Emmert as we are talking Seahawks draft. And in particular today, the Seahawks fifth pick overall.

0:21.1

Adam, how you doing?

0:22.4

Man, I'm right as rain.

0:24.5

It was nice to have a couple days to process the draft experience there

0:29.7

and be able to kind of go back and really deep dive on a few of these guys.

0:34.8

But there was one dude that I knew a fair amount about before this

0:39.0

draft. And I almost made a video saying, this is the way that they should go early in the draft.

0:44.4

And I didn't have the Cajonais to do it. And I chickened out. And I, I'm really sad that I did

0:51.6

because this would have been a really nice, you were right feather in my cap, and I missed out on it.

0:56.7

And that's our number five big.

0:58.0

I think we can take a little bit of credit for it, though,

1:00.5

because we did spend some time convincing ourselves of the idea that this could be the year

1:07.9

to go ahead and draft cornerback.

1:09.7

Because when you're talking positional

1:12.3

valuable, best player available, those types of things, Devin Witherspoon really fit

1:17.9

those types of check blocks, right? Because he was among the best players available,

1:23.0

a high value position being an outside corner. Those guys make a lot of money on the open market

1:27.8

after their first contract. It was technically a position of need, maybe a somewhat of a position

1:34.1

of luxury for the Seahawks, but how can you argue against having two elite corners on

1:40.9

either side of the defense? They didn't have that. So in that sense, it was a need.

1:46.3

Oh, it was a need in the terms of, do you want to be dominant on defense?

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