In a stunning, come from behind victory, this year’s victor ended Day 2 with zero points and walked away with a year’s worth of bragging rights after correctly guessing a trio of players selected by the Seahawks on Day 3.

The 2024 NFL Draft is in the books, and with it the 2024 Field Gulls Armchair GM Challenge, which saw several entrants start strong, but it was a comeback for the history books on Day 3 that propelled the champion to victory.

Getting right to the players the Seattle Seahawks added in the draft, here is the number of entrants...

A quick look at the Consensus Big Board to see how the Seahawks players were drafted relative to what many people expected.

Here come the 2024 Seattle Seahawks!

John Schneider walked away with eight picks for the new-era Seahawks, completing a draft that began with wild hoorays and ended with a deal of “hmms.”

We’re about to be bombarded with two-dozen Draft Grades over the next month, so what follows is not that. I’ve simply listed each pick from this class alongside that player’s projected slot in Arif Hasan’s Consensus Big Board.

The Consensus Big Board is fun as it’s...

What the Seahawks’ draft told us (and didn’t tell us) about how they view the roster.

Another year, another eventful NFL Draft for the Seattle Seahawks. No, they didn’t trade down from No. 16. No, they didn’t find a way back into the second round. Yes, they traded with the Denver Broncos again. Yes, NFL Network and ESPN repeatedly went to commercial when Seattle was on the clock.

With a couple of days to digest what transpired in Detroit, here’s how I view the Seahawks’ first draft of the John Schneider/Mike Macdonald era.

It’s Geno Smith and Sam Howell...

The Rams and Seahawks went with defense, while the 49ers and Cardinals went with wide receivers with their top draft picks.

The NFC West was responsible for 38 of the 257 picks in the 2024 NFL Draft. Both the Los Angeles Rams (10) and Arizona Cardinals (12) made double-digit selections, while the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks made eight picks apiece. With the futures of Brandon Aiyuk and even Deebo Samuel uncertain, the 49ers doubled down on wide receivers by taking Florida’s Ricky Pearsall in Round 1 and Arizona’s Jacob Cowing in Round 4. The Rams focused on life...

Free agency has one tweak once the draft ends.

With the NFL Draft all wrapped up, the next major date on the NFL calendar is the release of the regular season schedule, which we should get in mid-May. What’s more important to note regarding roster building is the significance of the Monday after the draft.

Any unrestricted free agents signed after 4 pm ET/1 pm PT on April 29 will no longer count in the compensatory pick formula. The only Seattle Seahawks UFA who remains unsigned (well, not counting Jason Peters) is guard Phil Haynes. The Miami Dolphins reportedly brought...

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Taulia Tagovailoa was most recently quarterback at Maryland.

Individual rookie minicamp invites normally aren’t worth a story in itself, but this might be an exception.

Taulia Tagovailoa, quarterback and younger brother of Miami Dolphins starting QB Tua Tagovailoa, has been invited to join Seattle’s rookie minicamp. Since this is an invite and not a UDFA signing, he won’t count against the roster total.

Taulia began his collegiate playing days at Alabama, but after Tua left for the NFL, he transferred to the University of Maryland. He amassed a 23-18 record as a four-year starter, throwing for over 11,000 yards and...

A report to counter the initial report about Seattle’s interest in moving up for the former Washington Huskies QB.

The Seattle Seahawks once again did not take a quarterback in the NFL Draft, and they really didn’t have much of a shot when the top half-dozen were off the board after just 12 picks.

By far the biggest story of Round 1 was former Washington Huskies quarterback Michael Penix Jr going to the Atlanta Falcons at No. 8 overall. Atlanta signed Kirk Cousins to a massive contract in March, but still took Penix Jr with its top pick. At the...

We’ve never seen the Seahawks bank on this many Senior Bowl players before.

Seattle Seahawks draft classes under John Schneider have regularly dipped into the Senior Bowl pool. As noted several times before, the Senior Bowl executive director is former Seahawks scout Jim Nagy, so the ties to this particular college All-Star game are evident. The 2024 draft class, however, was as Senior Bowl-laden as we’ve ever seen from the Seahawks.

The only tweak to this year’s format was inviting non-graduate underclassmen for the first time, but the 120+ invitees and the “Senior Bowl” name remain unchanged. Seven of Seattle’s...

Three positions were nowhere to be found in Seattle’s 2024 draft class.

The Seattle Seahawks’ first NFL Draft of the post-Pete Carroll era was certainly different. As in, “hasn’t happened in nearly 30 years” different.

Seattle allocated half of its eight picks to the offensive and defensive lines, two more to the cornerback position, one more to inside linebacker, and one to tight end.

Notice what’s missing? Despite another year of speculation (if not a bit of anticipation), the Seahawks did not take a quarterback. They were well out of the running for the top names, but they bypassed Spencer...

You love to see it.

One of the favorite parts of the NFL Draft is seeing and/or listening to players when they’ve been called by the team about to select them. Seattle Seahawks fans will fondly recall the emotional moment when star wide receiver DK Metcalf was taken in 2019, likewise Shaquem Griffin getting to play with his twin brother Shaquill in 2018.

The Seahawks made eight calls in the 2024 NFL Draft, starting with Texas defensive lineman Byron Murphy II and finishing with University of Findlay offensive lineman Michael Jerrell. There was a bit of a hiccup when UTEP...

Here’s what the Seahawks and Commanders did with the draft picks they exchanged in the Sam Howell trades.

When the Seattle Seahawks acquired backup quarterback Sam Howell from the Washington Commanders, a total of four draft picks were swapped. Seattle gave up one of its third-rounders and a fifth-rounder to Washington, who sent the Seahawks a fourth- and sixth-round pick.

With the 2024 NFL Draft done and dusted and picks made, we can now tally what both teams got out of the trade.

Seattle used the Washington fourth-rounder to trade down with the Denver Broncos, as well as pick up...