Field Gulls
The Seattle Seahawks stockpiled late-round picks on Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft, including No. 242 from the New York Jets along with No. 199 (Emmanuel Henderson Jr) for No. 188. With that pick at No. 242, the Seattle Seahawks selected defensive lineman Deven Eastern from Minnesota. Eastern comes with excellent size and length, but will have plenty of competition in an ocean-deep DL room to make the active roster.
Eastern’s athletic profile is the definition of a mixed bag. He brings “Elite” size and an 86th percentile broad jump, but that’s offset by a 25th percentile vertical and “Poor” agility times. As a player expected to clog up the middle of the line, that size and length will be of the utmost importance.
Of the RAS and Mockdraftable comps listed, I chose to highlight three of them. All of them are close in terms of overall RAS, yet are good comps for different reasons.
Tomlinson and Eastern have similar weight, vertical and broad jump. Derrick Brown is heavier and has the strength advantage with even more length than Eastern. Raekwon Davis is the closest across the board. All three were drafted in the first two rounds, unlike Eastern. Davis was out of the NFL after five seasons, while Brown and Tomlinson are still mixing it up in the trenches.
I had a lot of fun thinking of the next two comps, and I hope those of you who have been NFL fans for the last few decades will enjoy this. Way back in the early to mid 2000s, the Jacksonville Jaguars had a hell of a DT duo in John Henderson and Marcus Stroud. Turns out that Deven Eastern has some similar traits with both of them!
Could you imagine having both of those monsters in the middle of the line next to each other like the Jaguars did? Henderson’s bench, vertical, and broad are near Eastern’s while Stroud and Eastern are close in the broad and shuttle. Eastern is smack dab in the middle in terms of weight while being shorter than both Henderson and Stroud, who were both first round picks in back-to-back seasons. They were a very, very fun duo.
The next comp was another pull from way back in my brain that I just had to put in here for fun.
Does anyone besides me remember Igor Olshansky? He had one of the best names ever and is clearly a better athlete than Eastern. However, they are the exact same height and weight with very close broad jumps. That must count for something!
Alright, now we can move on to the Seahawks Legends comps.
Red Bryant, arguably the heartbeat of the first Seahawks Super Bowl championship team, has a similar weight, vertical, and broad jump. Alan Branch is good for vertical and shuttle. Rubin was identical in terms of weight with a similar vertical and three-cone. So, why do I have Naz Jones in...
