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It’s time for an additional Seahawks Reacts survey! Final week we targeted on over/underneath predictions for key offensive gamers. This week is all concerning the protection, however it’s not fully a recreation of over/underneath.
Boye Mafe had a giant leap from his rookie season to his second season. After simply three sacks in restricted enjoying time, Mafe soared to 9 sacks in 2023 and possibly may’ve had extra if Uchenna Nwosu’s damage didn’t imbalance the sting dashing rotation. We have now not seen a Seahawks move rusher get 10+ sacks since Frank Clark in 2018. Is Mafe the one to finish that drought?
We now flip our consideration to first-round decide Byron Murphy II. Inside defensive linemen are difficult to evaluate as a result of their affect isn’t at all times noticeable on the stat sheet. For Murphy’s over/underneath, we’ll swap out sacks for tackles for loss (TFLs). The bar is ready at eight TFLs, which is similar quantity fashionable Seahawks mock draft goal Jalen Carter had in his rookie season.
The Seahawks’ chief in interceptions final 12 months was Julian Love with 4. Nobody else had greater than two, and never quite a lot of gamers had alternatives to up their whole. Keep in mind when Riq Woolen had six as a rookie? Let’s get again to that degree. Do you consider any Seahawks defensive again will handle not less than 5 picks in 2024?
Speaking about defensive backs, Devon Witherspoon was a machine when it got here to passes defensed, main the crew with a whopping 16 regardless of lacking a couple of video games resulting from damage. Riq Woolen and Julian Love had been additionally in double digits, adopted by a tie between Tre Brown and Boye Mafe at a half-dozen. Who’s going to high the PD charts this season? And what if it’s not a defensive again?
And lastly, the NFL common factors was about 22 per recreation final season. Scoring is down from the 2020 and 2021 seasons, which had been closely impacted by COVID-19. If we assume 22 factors (or thereabouts) would be the common once more this season, will the Seahawks’ first season underneath Mike Macdonald finish with the protection holding groups beneath the league common?
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