Field Gulls
Once John Schneider started trading late round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, he just couldn’t stop, sending No. 216 that was acquired in a previous deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Green Bay Packers for No. 236 and 255, both in the seventh round. At No. 236, the Seattle Seahawks pulled from the secondary bucket for the third time in the draft with the selection of Andre Fuller from Toledo. Fuller played his final season at cornerback for Toledo after two years as a safety. He’ll have to be sharp during training camp to supplant someone in that stacked Seahawks secondary.
Fuller is a “Good” athlete overall if you look at his RAS, with nice size at 6’1, 200lbs. The arm length is one downside for him at the 26th percentile per Mockdraftable. He likely would’ve been disqualified in the past with Pete Carroll’s 32” arm threshold, though that was relaxed a bit toward the end of Pete’s tenure. Speed and explosion are good, but not great. The eye-catching number for Fuller is that 86th percentile broad jump.
A.J. Terrell is listed on both RAS and Mockdraftable, so that merits further research.
Fuller and Terrell are identical or very close in height, weight, vertical, broad, and shuttle. The biggest difference lies in the faster 40-yard dash time for Terrell. Both have shorter than average arm length as well, making it possibly an even more apt comparison.
Before I start throwing out my own comps, I wanted to check on Aqib Talib from the RAS list.
This one isn’t all that close since Fuller only has Talib beaten in height. It’s another one of those cases where Fuller probably wouldn’t have been floating around in the seventh round if he was of the same athletic caliber as Talib.
Since Fuller played more as a safety in college, I thought it would be fun to look at some safety-to-cornerback converts. Up first is Dax Hill, who was drafted at safety and played there his first two seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals before switching to cornerback.
None of the individual testing numbers match up, but the overall athletic score is in the same zip code. Hill’s agility times are much better, possibly lending credence to the Bengals’ decision to move him to CB.
Up next is another safety-turned-corner project with Seahawks ties.
Mike Tyson (insert obligatory joke here), was also drafted in the late rounds by the Seattle Seahawks just like Fuller. One of the last picks of that maligned 2017 draft class, Tyson has another thing in common with Fuller in that he was a college safety. However, Tyson would be making that same transition to cornerback at the NFL level unlike Fuller who had a year on the outside in college. Testing-wise Fuller is a noticeably better athlete at a similar size. Much of that is due to Tyson’s poor explosion scores. Tyson bounced around the NFL, but never...
