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Wilson is the antithesis of the “system quarterback.” He is his own system, to the point that it didn’t matter who Carroll brought in as a play-caller. And while that style of play brought Seattle a lot of wins in the past decade, it’s easy to see how calling plays for such a quarterback could be frustrating for an offensive coordinator. He’s so talented he can get away with breaking the rules in ways that even the best quarterbacks in the NFL can’t. But Wilson is also supremely accurate: He has an arm that can make any throw, and he’s one of the best playmakers we’ve ever seen. He regularly abandons clean pockets he drops his eyes and looks to scramble at the first sign of pressure and he is pretty much incapable of executing dropback passing concepts because of that discomfort with bodies around him. But Russ is also an outlier in that he’s been able to consistently produce like a top quarterback while using an approach that we typically associate with mediocre passers. When healthy, Wilson is one of the five best quarterbacks in the NFL, and I don’t see that changing in the next year. Yes, the Seahawks got worse at quarterback this offseason. And as naive as it may sound, I’m not sure it’s totally unrealistic. Maybe the two are trying to maintain an optimistic face publicly-unrelenting optimism is Carroll’s brand, after all-but all of the evidence suggests that they truly believe this team can compete for a playoff spot with Smith and/or Lock manning the most important spot on the roster. John Schneider adds, 'We're not used to losing.'- Corbin K. When asked if they feel they need to reassure fans after how this offseason has gone, Pete Carroll immediately responds, 'Yeah, we've got to win!' But nope! Both are still there, and neither Carroll nor Schneider is making any effort to lower expectations. In a true rebuild, at least one of those guys-probably Lockett, based on age and salary-would have been traded for draft capital to help accelerate the roster churn. That fact that Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf both remain on the roster is another sign the Seahawks probably aren’t folding their hand just yet. Wright after he left the Pacific Northwest a year ago. Plus, Carroll says the team is mulling over a reunion with linebacker K.J. But they followed that up by re-signing veteran safety Quandre Diggs to a long-term extension, retaining defensive tackle Al Woods, bringing back Quinton Jefferson and Justin Coleman, and giving free-agent edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu a two-year, $20 million deal. Sure, they traded away Wilson and let go of Bobby Wagner, moves that felt like the beginning stages of a teardown. There is, after all, a much deeper draft class of quarterbacks slated to hit the NFL next year, and if the team bottoms out, it could be in position to draft Ohio State’s CJ Stroud or Alabama’s Bryce Young.īut Carroll and Schneider haven’t been acting like two guys overseeing a complete rebuild.

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For a fan base that has gotten damn good quarterback play for the better part of the past two decades-Matt Hasselbeck was a three-time Pro Bowler before Wilson and the Legion of Boom elevated the franchise-it might be hard to see this as anything but a tank job. So it looks like Lock and Geno will battle it out for the starting gig this summer. Instead, Seattle brought Geno Smith back into the fold on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, and Carroll said over the weekend that he didn’t see the team “making a trade for anybody at all.” And despite Baker Mayfield describing the Seahawks as his most likely destination in April, the team reportedly wasn’t interested. But despite being linked with several quarterbacks during the predraft cycle, Seattle didn’t select a passer with any of its nine picks. The timing of that trade gave Pete Carroll and John Schneider, the two-pronged brain trust that’s run the team since 2010, ample time to find a suitable replacement-either via trade or the draft. And one of the players Seattle got back in that trade, Drew Lock, could never quite establish himself in Denver and was initially penciled in at the top of the depth chart almost by default. The man who held that spot for 10 seasons, Russell Wilson, was traded away early in the offseason. For the first time in a decade, the Seahawks will go into training camp unsure of who will be their starting quarterback this fall.

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