ESPN ranks Seattle Seahawks in top-15 in post-draft power rankings
ESPN ranked the Seahawks in the top-15 with an improved secondary.
Following a busy free agency period and NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks head into the offseason workout period with what ESPN sees as an improved team.
In the latest post-draft NFL power rankings, the Seahawks came in ranked as the No. 11 team in the league. ESPN detailed that the most improved aspect of the team was the secondary — an area Seattle drafted a top corner in Devon Witherspoon with its No. 5 pick.
Take a look at ESPN's analysis of the free agency and draft moves the Seahawks made over recent months.
Here is what Brady Henderson had to say:
"It was actually the strength of Seattle's defense last season, even with Jamal Adams suffering a torn quad tendon in Week 1. The Seahawks made it a lot stronger by adding safety Julian Love (two years, $12 million) in free agency, then drafting cornerback Devon Witherspoon with the No. 5 overall pick.
Witherspoon and Tariq Woolen give the Seahawks maybe the NFL's best young cornerback tandem. Love — whom they view as an upgrade over Ryan Neal — gives them the ability to play with three safeties and some insurance in case Adams isn't ready by Week 1. With Quandre Diggs coming off back-to-back Pro Bowl seasons, this looks like Seattle's best secondary since the LOB days."
Most of the post-draft league-wide power rankings have placed these Seahawks somewhere between No. 10 in the league and No. 15. The most prevalent place in most power rankings is No. 12. ESPN comes in a bit high, but it is because of the belief they appear to have in the players Seattle added to its secondary.
Though last year Seattle was supposed to be one of the worst teams in the league, it overachieved. Now, most analysts aren't willing to make the same mistake. And in the 2023 season, the Seahawks will have to live up to the hype they didn't have at this same point last season.
