Simply days out from cutdown day, the Seattle Seahawks moved on from go rusher Darrell Taylor, who was traded to the Chicago Bears for a 2025 sixth-round choose. Taylor was all the time battling for a roster spot heading into this season, however the emergence of Derick Corridor and the swap to edge rusher for Dre’Mont Jones put Taylor very a lot on the skin trying in.
The symbolic significance of the commerce pertains to the 2020 NFL Draft. Taylor was Seattle’s second-rounder from “the COVID draft”, and he was the final remaining member from that class to stay with the Seahawks heading into the 2024 preseason. Now that he’s gone, the Seahawks will head into the common season with zero gamers from that class.
Spherical 1, Choose 27: Jordyn Brooks (signed with Miami Dolphins in 2024)
Spherical 2, Choose 48: Darrell Taylor (traded to Chicago Bears in 2024)
Spherical 3, Choose 69: Damien Lewis (signed with Carolina Panthers in 2024)
Spherical 4, Choose 133: Colby Parkinson (signed with Los Angeles Rams in 2024)
Spherical 4, Choose 144: DeeJay Dallas (signed with Arizona Cardinals in 2024)
Spherical 5, Choose 148: Alton Robinson (waived in 2023, out of the NFL)
Spherical 6, Choose 214: Freddie Swain (waived in 2021, on Chicago Bears injured reserve)
Spherical 7, Choose 248: Stephen Sullivan (waived in 2020, out of the NFL)
Earlier than declaring this a horrible class, I’d take into account one thing concerning the 2020 group that’s pretty completely different from a few of the different current Seahawks drafts. The free agent contracts of Brooks, Lewis, and Parkinson have been all excessive sufficient to warrant compensatory picks. Parkinson’s comp choose has since been cancelled out, however Lewis and Brooks are respectively projected to web the Seahawks a fourth- and fifth-round comp choose for 2025. Add within the Taylor commerce and the Seahawks are tentatively slated to have three picks in subsequent yr’s draft by the departures of their 2020 gamers.
For comparability, not one of the 10 departed gamers from the 2019 class merited a comp choose or perhaps a draft choose in a commerce. Likewise for the 2018 class, though Jacob Martin was thrown into the Jadeveon Clowney deal. Of the 2017 draft picks, Shaquill Griffin and David Moore did signal comp choose eligible contracts, however they have been cancelled out by the Brandon Shell and Bruce Irvin offers.
Nice class? No. Disasterclass? Nope. At the very least the Seahawks obtained usually strong contribution and a few future draft worth out of the gamers they didn’t retain, one thing that hadn’t been taking place for awhile.
