The 2024 NFL begins on Thursday, April 25, and the Seattle Seahawks have several position needs they need to address. General manager John Schneider, though, likes to choose the best player available until the very late rounds of a draft. Whatever Seattle has on their big board, which of course they are not going to let fans know how the board looks, Schneider may take whether the position has a need or not. That is part of the issue. While Schneider has had some excellent drafts since he arrived in Seattle in 2010, many times those drafts have looked better because of the players Seattle got in the mid-rounds and not what Seattle did earlier in the draft. For instance, the first pick in 2019 was a huge whiff in the person of L.J. Collier, but DK Metcalf was taken in the third round so the entire draft was not awful. 2024 will be the first draft where Schneider has full control over who Seattle takes and who the team doesn’t. Every other year, former head coach/Vice President of Football Operations Pete Carroll had the final say over every roster move. This means Schneider will be doing something this year that he hasn’t done before and there will be a lot of pressure on him to be right. This is how he could go wrong.
