Seaside Joe's final Seahawks player rankings and your chance to submit your own!
Do you have what it takes to rank all 91 Seattle Seahawks heading into the start of 2026 training camp? Well, you’re here aren’t you? You’re a Seaside Joe subscriber and daily reader of the newsletter.
That makes you qualified to use Seaside Joe’s easy-to-use Seahawks roster ranker, featuring all 91 players on the team.
Over the past month, I’ve been ranking every Seahawk, starting at 91 and ending with the top-five today. But for meit’s not about the order. It’s about getting these 91 names seared into our brains beforereal training camp updates start to hit in the coming week, and then Hard Knocks, and then final cuts and practice squad signings.
I want people who read this newsletter to feel like they got as invested in Rashad Rochelle as well as they already are in Jake Bobo.
So can you do it? Can you rank all 91 Seahawks?
Well, what if I set you up with all 91 names on a website that allows you to click ‘em, drag ‘em, drop ‘em, and send ‘em?I did:
Click Here: Rank all 91 Seahawks!
If you want to take a crack at ranking every player in Seahawks training camp, you can use the linked website above to easily sort them. When you’re finished,click “Submit my 1-91 ranking” and it will send your results to me;enter a display name so I know who did it, unless you don’t want to. I’ll average out all the results and share them with everyone next week.
The starting order should be my rankings, only because that’s going to make it far easier for you to drag and drop players where you want them compared to if it was alphabetical.
The page should look like this and you can reset to alphabetical if you want:
For me, I prefer to do it on a desktop, but for others, mobile will be easier. I imagine this is not going to be a quick project for most people, so take as much time as you need to fill it out and submit.
Frankly, if I get 10 submissions ranking all 91 players, that’s a win.
“But do I even know who the bottom 50 players are?”
If you’ve been subscribed to Seaside Joe for even the last month, surely you know more about the back end of the roster than most fans. However, I’ll link to those write-ups of all 91 playersat the bottom of this newsletter.
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Here is how I ended my final 91 player rankings.
Seaside Joe’s 91-player Seahawks Rankings:
1. QB Sam Darnold
2. WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba
3. DT Leonard Williams
4. DT Byron Murphy II
5. T Charles Cross
6. S Nick Emmanwori
7. T Abraham Lucas
8. LB Ernest Jones IV
9. CB Devon Witherspoon
10. LB DeMarcus Lawrence
11. TE AJ Barner
12. S Julian Love
13. WR Rashid Shaheed
14. G Grey Zabel
15. CB Josh Jobe
16. LB Derick Hall
17. LB Uchenna Nwosu
18. C Jalen Sundell
19. WR Cooper Kupp
20. K Jason Myers
21. LB Drake Thomas
22. P Michael Dickson
23. RB Jadarian Price
24. NT Jarran Reed
25. RB Zach Charbonnet
26. G Anthony Bradford
27. TE Elijah Arroyo
28. S Bud Clark
29. S Ty Okada
30. DE Rylie Mills
31. WR Tory Horton
32. LB Dante Fowler Jr.
33. CB Julian Neal
34. FB Robbie Ouzts
35. RB George Holani
36. FB Brady Russell
37. WR Jake Bobo
38. QB Drew Lock
39. LB Tyrice Knight
40. TE Eric Saubert
41. G Beau Stephens
42. LB Connor O’Toole
43. DE Mike Morris
44. G/T Josh Jones
45. TE Nick Kallerup
46. CB Noah Igbinoghene
47. T Amari Kight
48. QB Jalen Milroe
49. T/G Mason Richman
50. S Rodney Thomas II
51. RB Emanuel Wilson
52. LB Patrick O’Connell
53. LB Jared Ivey
54. C Olu Oluwatimi
55. NT Brandon Pili
56. WR Emmanuel Henderson Jr.
57. CB Nehemiah Pritchett
58. S D’Anthony Bell
59. G Christian Haynes
60. NT Bubba Thomas
61. LB Chris Paul Jr.
62. WR Cody White
63. LB Chazz Surratt
64. LB Aidan Hubbard
65. RB Kenny McIntosh
66. T Logan Brown
67. WR Irv Charles
68. S AJ Finley
69. LB Jalan Gaines
70. CB Andre Fuller
71. LS Chris Stoll
72. G Bryce Cabeldue
73. NT J.R. Singleton
74. LB Jamie Sheriff
75. T Bobby Hart
76. WR Ricky White III
77. RB Jacardia Wright
78. CB Michael Dansby
79. NT Deven Eastern
80. TE Harrison Bryant
81. C Federico Maranges
82. LB Marvin Jones Jr.
83. CB Shemar Jean-Charles
84. S Maxen Hook
85. WR Montorie Foster Jr.
86. CB Tyrone Broden
87. NT Uso Seumalo
88. WR Velus Jones Jr.
89. TE Lance Mason
90. LB Ja’Markis Weston
91. WR Rashad Rochelle
There it is, the complete 91. I started to slide players around at the back end based on your votes (notice Seumalo went up, Mason went down) but then that got too complicated and I was worried about counting errors.
Whoare these Seahawks?
Player Rankings: Nos. 81-91
Player Rankings: Nos. 71-80
Player Rankings: Nos. 61-70
Player Rankings: Nos. 51-60
Player Rankings: Nos. 41-50
Player Rankings: Nos. 31-40
Player Rankings: Nos. 26-30
Player Rankings: Nos. 21-25
Player Rankings: Nos. 16-20
Player Rankings: Nos. 11-15
Player Rankings: Nos. 6-10
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Seahawks Top 5
1. QB Sam Darnold
Even if Darnold got a warm reception from Seattle when he was signed, how many fans would have expected him to not only be the top-ranked player on the Seahawks — but do so on the same team with the Offensive Player of the Yearand the number one defense?
Maybe Darnold wouldn’t win a “most talented” contest on the Seahawks, but he won most valuable without a single close matchup along the way. It’s sort of like Michael Jordan never facing a game 7 in the NBA Finals. Even Jaxon Smith-Njigba was knocked out in five games.
Darnold set career-highs in completion percentage, yards per attempt, success rate, and sack rate. Even slight improvements across the board — but amajor improvement in interceptions thrown — would make Darnold an MVP candidate next season. I believe that would make him the first quarterback in franchise history to even receive one MVP vote. He’s talented enough, now he needs to be good enough.
2. WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Against the AFC last season, JSN averaged 133 receiving yards per game and scored four times in five contests. Maybe he didn’t forget that the Titans, Steelers, and Colts passed him over in the 2023 draft, and the Texans passed him overtwice.
Not that Houston regrets taking Will Anderson and C.J. Stroud, but now Smith-Njigba is a Super Bowl winner and an Offensive Player of the Year. He was projected as if he’d be a high-volume slot receiver catching screens and he became the best deep threat in the league.
Winning OPOY again would be historic, but going into year two with Darnold and potentially a better receivers room if they get full seasons from Rashid Shaheed and Tory Horton, JSN could be even more efficient in 2026. This year opponents may want to do a better job of coming up with a JSN plan, especially if you’re in the AFC West or the Patriots in Week 1.
3. DT Leonard Williams
Even though Murphy beat him head-to-head in the tournament, I’m going to continue to give Williams the veteran bump as the overall leader of the defense and one of the most singularly valuable defensive players in the NFL.
For some reason, it seemed like when Mike Macdonald got career-years out of Nnamdi Madubuike and Roquan Smith in Baltimore, the media took notice in a way that outshines how much credit they’re giving Williams and Ernest Jones. To be fair, I couldn’t quite make that comparison for Kyle Hamilton and Nick Emmanwori, given the attention on last year’s second pick.
But Williams has 18 sacks over the last two seasons, the most among all DTs, and his name is relatively unheard. He hasn’t received first or second team all-pro nod.His next contract could do more to reflect his value.
4. DT Byron Murphy II
Next Gen Stats highlights the power of Seattle’s duo last season, generating the second-most pressures from any interior pair in 2025:
What’s more amazing is that we don’t think of Murphy as a guy who is only ever trying to get to the quarterback. Oftentimes, he’s planting his knee in the ground to hold the line or attracting a double-team to free up a teammate for a sack. If Murphy’s concentration in 2026 becomes to get more sacks (and hopefully only because it’s what the team is asking him to do), he could be a 13-15 sack type player. He’s that disruptive when he wants to be.
5. LT Charles Cross
If a team drafts a receiver top-10, he’s considered a bust if he doesn’t at least get regular Pro Bowl consideration and is among the best fantasy football players. Same for a running back, or most positions. Tackle is different.
If a team drafts a tackle that early, as Seattle did with the ninth pick in 2022, sometimes that player can be a stareven when he’s not a star. Yeah, the “Walter Jones” outcome is ideal, but improbable and rare. As long as Cross isn’t standing out in a bad way, he’s standing out in the right way.
It’s sort of like the director who puts his signature on every shot, like Wes Anderson, versus the one who is just trying to make a great movie and nobody even asks, “Who directed that?”Most of the time, Cross disappears behind the camera, and that’s a good thing.
Keeping in mind that Andrew Whitworth was sort of like that too. Most fans consider Whitworth one of the great tackles of his generation, but he didn’t even make his first Pro Bowl until he was 31.
Charles Cross is only 25. Here, he’s 5th.
Where does Charles Cross rankfor you?
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