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Are you ready for the NFL Draft yet? Well you better be soon, because it’s just around the corner for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks!
While the Seahawks only have four draft picks entering April, there’s still plenty of intrigue in terms of what they’ll do at cornerback, running back, edge rusher, and even safety following some very notable free agent departures. This might be one of those rare drafts in recent years in which quarterback is not anywhere near presence of mind for Seattle.
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As part of the Seahawks’ pre-draft process, they’re conducting “top 30 visits” at team headquarters in Renton. The term “top 30 visit” is an undeniable misnomer but this is what we’re working with. A top 30 visit simply means every team gets a maximum of 30 formal in-person meetings with non-local* college prospects. Those players are brought into the team facility for interviews and a physical. An official visit doesn’t mean they are the top 30 prospects in the sport or a top 30 prospect for a specific team.
*- A local prospect is defined by the NFL as someone who attends college or is from a “local metropolitan area as defined by a current Rand McNally map.”
Former Washington Huskies running back Jonah Coleman recently met with the Seahawks, but he counts as a local visit. There’s no limit to how many local visits a team can have.
As a reminder, not every pre-draft visit means the Seahawks will take all of these players nor are they realistically going to get them. However, top 30 visits (and official NFL Scouting Combine visits) are historically a good hint that we’ll see at least one of these players taken either in the draft or as an undrafted free agent. Last year the Seahawks notably held formal visits with Jalen Milroe, Bryce Cabeldue, and Nick Emmanwori.
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This is the tracker for all confirmed or reported official top 30 Seahawks visits, as well as local visits. We will update this post with any new names over the next few weeks.
