Author: Tim Quam

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Nothing boosts a draft class like an undrafted free-agent find. I’m thinking in particular of the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers draft group, when the team tabbed four future Hall of Famers among their first five selections. And they didn’t have one opportunity to pick in the top 20. Added to that group was undrafted DB Donnie Shell, who made it five Hall-of-Famers for the Steelers 1974 rookie class. With that, I thought I’m ruminate on the Seahawks top ten undrafted players. Here the are: 10) Jordan Babineaux (2004). Defensive back from Southern Arkansas, Babineaux made his mark in seven seasons with…

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As with my bottom ten trades in Seahawks history I will omit the Jamal Adams and Russell Wilson trades because time will tell if they should be in the bottom or the top. Here are the ten: 10) Seattle drafted WR D.K. Metcalf in the second round of 2019 with a pick acquired from the New England Patriots in exchange for third- and fourth-round picks. The Seahawks had dealt their own second-round pick to the Houston Texans in the 2017 midseason trade that brought OL Duane Brown to Seattle. Metcalf was the seventh of seven wide receivers to go in…

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Before I go off an a tangent, I’d like to mention in this list of worst trades of all time for the Seattle Seahawks franchise I am omitting the Jamal Adams and Russell Wilson trades. I figure time will tell, especially in the Wilson deal because the team still has 2023 first- and second-round choices coming from that trade. The Adams trade is a little different, because it may have been part of the impetus of the Wilson deal because after the Adams trade the team needed to acquire some draft picks in the 2020s. Here we go: 10) Seattle…

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Filling out the all-time Seattle Seahawks lineup is an interesting task to me. Take the role of ball carrier for instance. Shaun Alexander is the team’s rushing leader for both career and single-season yards. But anyone who remembers the back-to-back Super Bowl run in the 2013 and ’14 seasons will think of Marshawn Lynch as the team’s greatest runner. Alexander has over 9,000 career yards with the team. No one else has reached 7,000. That’s not the position that interest me the most. It’s fullback.  Mack Strong made number three on the NFL’s list on a video called Top 5 Most…

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Husky Stadium recently ranked as one of the top 11 venues in college football according to Ivan Maisel, one of the games’ great writers. In a post on on3.com the analyst ranked the top venues in alphabetical order. It may or may not be in the top ten. But it is on a list that includes home fields for Alabama, Army, Notre Dame, Ohio State and others. What’s Not to Like? “I’m a sucker for Husky Stadium,” Maisel wrote. “The setting, with a view beyond one end zone of Lake Washington and, on a clear day, the Cascade Mountains, is…

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Amid all the talk about what Washington should do by 2024 when UCLA and USC leave the Pac-12 something has been lost. The Huskies are having a great recruiting class for 2023.  Their 2023 group ranks 20th in the nation on 247sports. This a big lift from 2022 when they didn’t place in the top 50 on the same site. Of course the Washington staff had a slow start. Coach Karen DeBoer was hired November 29th, 2021. Latest Big Commitment: https://twitter.com/SuperWestSports/status/1547702541814665216 The latest coup for the 2023 class was four-star defensive back Curley Reed from Louisiana. For all the talk…

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In the aftermath of the accepted applications of UCLA and USC to join the Big Ten, there has been not only much panic but much nostalgia among the Pac-12 faithful. A Seattle Times article written by Larry Stone was titled “The Pac-12 will never be the same again, and that’s sad.” The photograph at the top of the story was of USC quarterback Todd Marinovich lying on the Husky Stadium turf surrounded by three Washington Huskies in a 1990 game. In a postgame interview Marinovich famously said “All I saw was purple.” It’s a proud memory for Husky Nation. It’s…

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It was no surprise that Seattle acquired Drew Lock from the Denver Broncos in the Russell Wilson trade. You let go of your franchise quarterback and you’re going to need someone new behind center, right? The real story for the Seahawks was tight end Noah Fant, who was also acquired in the deal. The OC used to coach tight ends Tight ends have been an area of interest for Seattle since the team made Shane Waldon their offensive coordinator last year. Waldon came from the Los Angeles Rams where he was the passing game coordinator. But he started his time…

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It’s safe to say that championships are won in the war room. The war room is a draft reference, but that’s where a large percentage of trades or worked out. Thinking about the 2022 Seattle Seahawks, trades are a good way to map out how we got here. I thought I’d go in mostly reverse chronological order. The Russell Wilson trade is already being bantered about as one of the biggest trades in NFL history. CBS Sports ranked it number three on their top-five list of NFL trades all time. Seahawks fans will be happy to know that the 2010…

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When the Seattle Seahawks sent Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos in the biggest trade in years, the Seahawks-Broncos game this season screamed prime-time event. Sure enough, it is scheduled as the first Monday-night game of the year. Looking at the other end of the season, the contest against the New York Jets on New Year’s Day 2023 will be a good barometer or where the Seahawks are. The Jets game doesn’t jump off the schedule as an event, but they are the team Seattle sent two first round draft choices to in the deal that brought safety Jamal Adams…

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