Seahawks 2024 draft picks ranked by steals and reaches

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 the reflection of an incredible amount of information. Synthesizing 101 different draft class rankings from around the national media, it’s a pretty good indicator of how a lot of people feel about all these prospects.

We can get a sense of where the Seahawks got value or where their opinion differed, compared to the general pulse of the players coming out of college.

Round 1, Byron Murphy

Consensus = 15. Pick = 16.
Difference +1

Round 3, Christian Haynes

Consensus = 57. Pick = 81
Difference +24

Round 6, D.J. James

Consensus = 113. Pick = 192
Difference +79

As great of value as Christian Haynes was, James is actually the biggest steal of the draft for Seattle per the Big Board.

Round 5, Nehemiah Pritchett

Consensus = 141. Pick = 136
Difference -5

The picks with negative differential are considered a “reach”, although a difference of five is essentially spot on.

Round 6, Sataoa Laumea

Consensus = 157. Pick = 179
Difference +22

Round 4, AJ Barner

Consensus = 181. Pick = 121
Difference -60

Round 4, Tyrice Knight

Consensus = 192. Pick = 118
Difference -74

I do not love that both the fourth round picks are such. I don’t care so much about the tight end Barner, he is a good fit. The opinions of Knight seem to vary greatly, and if this pick hits it makes the top half of the draft awesome; conversely, if it does not, it just feels unfortunate that they came out in Day 3 with such a head-scratcher.

Round 6, Michael Jerrell

Consensus = 472. Pick = 207
Difference -265, which is objectively hilarious.

So there you have it.

The total math comes out barely in the negative. Negative 13, for the top seven picks. It’s a total reach of 220 spots if we add Michael Jerrell, which for the purpose of this exercise we will not. University of Findlay is a private Christian school with 4,000 students, and I don’t care what anybody thinks of him except Schneider in this case.

Some value, some reaches, but let’s see if John Schneider outsmarted the board once again.