Training camp is a time for fans of the Seattle Seahawks to let [their imaginations run wild](https://12thmanrising.com/seattle-seahawks-seen-nfc-west-crack-wide-open-injury-news). With every highlight-reel catch from some undrafted free agent, it’s easy to believe your team has just landed the next Jerry Rice. That seventh-round DII offensive tackle looks twice as big in person as he looked on the 15 seconds of grainy tape you had watched immediately after the draft.
Yep, it’s a fun time to be a fan. Not so fun to be a player, as you sweat through daily drills with your professional future riding on every step. But fans of all NFL teams – it’s our time to dream.
With that in mind, let’s make some projections for the players likely to make up the Seattle Seahawks roster in 2025. Since I’m a fan like everyone else, I’m going to go overboard and do some top-shelf, best-case predictions, but since I am also highly cynical by nature, I’ll also do some catastrophic worst-cases.
Best and worst cases for each of the Seattle Seahawks' 2025 draft picks
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Then, because I am tasked with writing about the team – hopefully at least somewhat realistically – I’ll conclude with a more likely prediction. Usually, but not always, it will split the difference between the opposite best and worst case poles.
We’ll check back with other player groups later, but for today, let’s do the eleven rookies John Schneider selected in the 2025 draft.
### Grey Zabel – Offensive lineman - Round 1, pick 18
**Best-case**: Starts all 17 games at left guard and is chosen for the All-Rookie team. Seahawks' QBs are sacked 40 times, down from about a thousand last year.
**Worst-case**: Germain Ifedi.
**Realistic case**: Much closer to the best-case, maybe without the All-Rookie designation.
### Nick Emmanwori – Safety – Round 2, pick 35
**Best-case**: 800 snaps, 65 tackles, six pass defenses, five tackles-for-loss, four sacks, three picks, and two forced fumbles … and, come Christmas, a sparrow in a spruce tree.
**Worst-case:** 13 penalties (AKA, Germain Ifedi in 2019)
**Realistic case:** As with Zabel, much closer to the best-case. 650 snaps. Penalties and splash plays (sacks, picks, fumbles) cancel each other out.
### Elijah Arroyo – Tight end – Round 2, pick 50
**Best-case**: 65 catches, 750 yards, five touchdowns (AKA the Noah Fant Seahawks fans thought they were getting in 2022)
**Worst-case:** Arroyo struggles with the blocking requirements of a tight end. Cedes snaps to Eric Saubert and, most disturbingly, A.J. Barner finishes the year as the Hawks' top receiving tight end.
**Realistic case**: 50 catches, 500 yards, three touchdowns. (AKA, the Noah Fant Seattle actually got, but trending up as the season draws to a close).
### Jalen Milroe – Quarterback – Round 3, pick 92
**Best-case**: Backs up a successful Sam Darnold all season. Fifty rushes for 300 yards and five touchdowns.
**Worst-case**: Thrown to the wolves. Forced to start due to injury or poor play from Darnold and Drew Lock. Completion percentage under 55 and a negative touchdown-to-interception ratio. AKA – the Zach Wilson special.
**Realistic case**: One from column A and one from column B – 6 yards-per-rush and more interceptions than touchdown passes.
### Rylie Mills – Defensive line – Round 5, pick 142
**Best case**: 400 snaps, five tackles-for-loss, two sacks
**Worst-case**: Never fully healthy. Moves to IR by mid-season.
**Realistic case**: Gets better and better as the year goes on. At least one major publication names Mills and Murphy among the best young defensive tackle tandems in the league.
### Tory Horton – Wide Receiver – Round 5, pick 166
**Best-case**: Supplants Marquez Valdes-Scantling as WR3 by season’s end. Eight touchdowns and 14 yards per catch. Returns a punt for a touchdown.
**Worst-case**: D’Wayne Eskridge (Shudder)
**Realistic case**: Does not take over MVS’s spot but does become Seattle's best punt returner since Tyler Lockett, and hints at a receiving career similar to Lockett’s as well.
### Robbie Ouzts – Fullback – Round 5, pick 175
**Best-case**: starting fullback in new offense. Logs 425 snaps on offense and Kenneth Walker III goes over 1,000 yards.
**Worst-case**: Fails to make the final roster. Lingers on the practice squad.
**Realistic-case**: Starting fullback, but fans still lament that Ouzts was overdrafted and they could have had Ahmed Hassanein.
### Bryce Cabeldue – Offensive lineman – Round 6, pick 192
**Best-case**: Comes out of nowhere to surpass Anthony Bradford, Christian Haynes, and Samaoa Laumea to become starting right guard by season’s end.
**Worst-case**: Practice squad.
**Realistic case**: Practice squad, but early call-up when linemen go down with injuries.
### Damien Martinez – Running back – Round 7, pick 223
**Best-case**: 115 carries, 500 yards. Gets praised at least once by coaches for picking up a blitzer on the big pass-play.
**Worst-case**: Fails to impress on special teams and loses roster spot to George Holani.
**Realistic case:** Dominates the fourth quarter of one game in December, helping seal a Seahawks' win. More importantly, regardless of how many yards he gains on the season, he allows Kenneth Walker to remain healthy and fresh for the entire season.
### Mason Richman – Offensive lineman – Round 7, pick 234
**Best-case**: Makes the final roster as versatile depth piece. Plays mostly only special teams.
**Worst-case**: Released. No practice squad invite.
**Realistic case**: Practice squad, though not necessarily with Seattle.
### Ricky White III – Wide receiver – Round 7, pick 238
**Best-case**: First receiving touchdown comes in December. [First punt block comes](https://12thmanrising.com/training-camp-exposes-harsh-reality-seattle-seahawks-rookie-over-head) in September. Three total blocks for the season. I’m not quite ready to put him in Albert Lewis territory yet.
**Worst-case**: Bounces between practice squad and main roster all season.
**Realistic case**: Close to worst-case, but with at least one punt block.
We know from past experience and draft-pick actuarial tables that a few of these players will play up to or beyond expectations, and a few will vanish from memory by the end of the season. Of course, if one of the top guys, especially Milroe, turns out to be sensational, this will go down as a great draft.
But often, the key to a draft’s success comes from those in-between players. Do Mills, Horton, and Cabeldue overperform, or just turn into another anonymous prospect who never has much impact? We will begin answering that question soon.
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