On the eve of the start of the 2025 league year, the NFL awarded compensatory draft picks to 15 teams, including (for the first time in a long time) the Seattle Seahawks.
After being out of the comp pick game for five years, Seattle is finally coming off a season in which it lost more CFA eligible players than it added. OverTheCap.com does an excellent job of projecting comp picks based on contract value, and entering this week the Seahawks were slated to gain an additional fourth-round pick for Damien Lewis, a fifth-rounder for Jordyn Brooks, and a sixth for Bobby Wagner.
Guess what? The news got even better for the Seahawks on Tuesday.
Seattle does have a fourth-rounder (No. 137) and fifth-rounder (No. 172) in its pocket, but it now has an additional fifth-rounder (No. 175) in lieu of the projected sixth-rounder. OverTheCap’s Nick Korte, who oversees the projections, has a possible explanation for why the Seahawks got another fifth over a sixth.
Seattle got two 5ths, instead of a 5th and 6th.
My guess for now is that Tyrel Dodson's contract got valued as a 6th, thus he canceled out Bobby Wagner instead, opening up another 5th (Colby Parkinson).
— Nick Korte (@nickkorte) March 11, 2025
This means that the Seahawks have a first-round pick, a pair of second-round picks (pending the DK Metcalf trade), a pair of third-round picks (pending the Geno Smith trade), a fourth-round pick (comp), and a pair of fifth-round picks (both comps).
“But wait! Don’t the Seahawks have sixth- and seventh-rounders?”
Why yes they do. We won’t get into that until after Wednesday when the Metcalf trade is processed. Seattle is set to trade its sixth-rounder to the Steelers, but it’ll either be No. 233 or No. 229 since Pittsburgh has a pair of seventh-rounders.