Dane Brugler 2026 The Beast

[mayoclinic]

Rob Staton has Seattle trading back twice to 34 and then 40, and then taking Stukes with their first pick:

R2 — #40 — Treydan Stukes (S, Arizona)

Smart, tough, reliable. Stukes ticks all of those boxes. I watched several of his interviews this week and was blown away with how impressive he is. It’s very easy to imagine the Seahawks rating him very highly. Then you take into account his gritty backstory (walk-on, coming back from injuries), how evident his mental processing is, his physical style of play, his range (4.33 speed) and overall athletic profile, production (four interceptions in 2025) and his commitment to staying at Arizona when he had options to leave.

The Seahawks were prepared to pay Coby Bryant to stay, so it’s plausible they will invest in a replacement. Stukes screams Seahawks — and while the medicals will need to be checked given his ACL injury in 2024, if he gets the all-clear it’s possible he’ll be high on Seattle’s wanted list.

A seven round 2026 Seahawks mock draft – Seahawks Draft Blog

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With Iheanachor, Miller and Mesidor looking increasingly like pipe dreams, the list of options in the 31-40 range is starting to look like:

- DT Kayden McDonald
- S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren
- S Treydan Stukes
- LB Jake Golday
- LB Jacob Rodriguez
- One of the available EDGEs
- One of the available IOLs
- An X WR

 

[mgteich]

Rob Staton has Seattle trading back twice to 34 and then 40, and then taking Stukes with their first pick:

A seven round 2026 Seahawks mock draft – Seahawks Draft Blog

seahawksdraftblog.com

With Iheanachor, Miller and Mesidor looking increasingly like pipe dreams, the list of options in the 31-40 range is starting to look like:

- DT Kayden McDonald
- S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren
- S Treydan Stukes
- LB Jake Golday
- LB Jacob Rodriguez
- One of the available EDGEs
- One of the available IOLs
- An X WR

BPA seems to be an EDGE rusher, but they seem to very available on Day 2, with 16 or so with rating in the first 3 rounds.

 

[DaBruinz]

Theres no need to offset anything. They have plenty of cap space to absorb Thobodeaux. They could acquire Thibodeaux, keep Onwenu, and still have plenty of cash left over to still make moves.

Do you even understand where the team is at currently for cap space? They have an effective cap space of $31.5M. That's because of LTBE incentives that must be covered. Trading for Thibodeaux would eat 14.751M out of that. Leaving less than 17M in cap space. That's just a couple mill MORE than is needed to sign all the Draft picks, account for the 52 and 53 men , and the 16 man practice squad. It would give them next to nothing for in season injuries. A new contract for him would free up $4M-$6M.. Maybe..

Trading Onwenu just doesnt make sense. Its at best a lateral move. Probably a downgrade. Onwenu was our best OL last year. Even if it is lateral, it comes at the cost of a prime draft pick, which makes it a net negative.

It's a lateral move to a younger, more athletic player in Rutledge. You should probably stop telling people what they already know about the team. It doesn't help your argument.

The only way it's a net negative is if you ignore the money freed up from trading Onwenu and the draft capital added.

Also, it leaves the team dangerously young on the OL. If youre replacing him with a rookie, you still have clear depth issues(and one less high draft pick). You now have 2 2nd year OL, 2 rookie OL(with Iheanachor), and depth issues. That depth either comes in the form of bottom feeder veteran FA or day 3 picks. More rookies.

The team is not "dangerously young on the OL" FFS. Morgan Moses is 35 years old. Gutierrez will be 28 by camp. Ben Brown will be 28 not long after the draft. Rupcich is 27. Metz is 29. AVT is 26. James Hudson will be 27. Caedan Wallace is going to be 26 shortly. Marcus Bryant is 23. Just because Campbell and Wilson are the babies of the group doesn't mean that the O-line is "dangerously young". You're resorting to making flimsy excuses.

I understand not planning long term with Onwenu and letting him walk in a year. But there arent many scenarios where the team is better in '26 without Onwenu. The team has cap space to spend still, even with him on-board.

You have no idea what the team has for cap space. You've proven that. You ignore the fact that they're trying to get Gonzalez signed to an extension and that would certainly ADD to his cap hit for this year. Probably an additional $6M to -$10M in cap compared to his current contract.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

Hold on there. Who said anything about not trying to compete?? I said he wasn't in "Win Now" mode. I think you and I have different understandings of what "Win Now" means. To me, it means that you're stacking your team with High Priced vets at key positions and trading draft capital to bolster the team for a run this year. I do not see Vrabel being in that mode at all. I see him in the mode of "We're building this team for the long haul". What happened the previous year has no bearing going forward, but it is a sign of good things.

Having the mentality of getting younger, cheaper talent that fits his violent and aggressive model on offense and defense while adding available Free Agent pieces that the team was missing (Hill/Gilliam) fits the "I'm still building my team" model. It doesn't fit the "Win Now" model.

Semantics I suppose.
I believe when you have a top QB you are always in the SB hunt, never sacrificing the current season.
I would put your scenario in the "going all in" classification with high priced vets and sacrificing draft capital and I certainly don't think we are doing that, Vrabs will do his best to put the best team forward this year, while still building for the future...as any good team really should.
To summarize it, I believe every move we have made in FA is to make our team better this year. It should obv make our team better beyond this year as well.
At this point with our QB I would put us in the same class as KC, Buff....etc, teams that expect to be competing for a SB this year, thus in win now mode.
So no, not going All-in and sacrificing the future, but still making moves to win now.

 

[Rdforty2]

Do you even understand where the team is at currently for cap space? They have an effective cap space of $31.5M. That's because of LTBE incentives that must be covered. Trading for Thibodeaux would eat 14.751M out of that. Leaving less than 17M in cap space. That's just a couple mill MORE than is needed to sign all the Draft picks, account for the 52 and 53 men , and the 16 man practice squad. It would give them next to nothing for in season injuries. A new contract for him would free up $4M-$6M.. Maybe..



It's a lateral move to a younger, more athletic player in Rutledge. You should probably stop telling people what they already know about the team. It doesn't help your argument.

The only way it's a net negative is if you ignore the money freed up from trading Onwenu and the draft capital added.


The team is not "dangerously young on the OL" FFS. Morgan Moses is 35 years old. Gutierrez will be 28 by camp. Ben Brown will be 28 not long after the draft. Rupcich is 27. Metz is 29. AVT is 26. James Hudson will be 27. Caedan Wallace is going to be 26 shortly. Marcus Bryant is 23. Just because Campbell and Wilson are the babies of the group doesn't mean that the O-line is "dangerously young". You're resorting to making flimsy excuses.


You have no idea what the team has for cap space. You've proven that. You ignore the fact that they're trying to get Gonzalez signed to an extension and that would certainly ADD to his cap hit for this year. Probably an additional $6M to -$10M in cap compared to his current contract.

I know its just natural in your nature to be a jackass but you say so much, without saying anything. You try too hard.

I say the team has enough money to acquire Thibodeaux, keep Onwenu, and still have money left over. Pretty simple statement. You write a paragraph, attempting to discredit that, by saying they do indeed have the money to do just that. Thanks for the brilliant, long winded response.

There are people that can be cut to save cash, along with restructures, to clear out cap space. You dont need to cut your best OL thats in his prime.

As for the experience on the OL, outside of Brown and AVT, you just named basically camp bodies. You think Rupcich, Metz, and Gutierrez provide experience and leadership? In talking about experience, you then lump in Marcus Bryant and Caedan Wallace in that group? You've made some crazy statements, but they seem to get more ridiculous the more you speak. Because then you even follow up with Campbell and Wilson being the "babies" when were talking about adding in two more rookies in this scenario, with the possibility of another on day 3. Depending on Bryant, that could mean 6 OL in their 1st or 2nd year in the league. Follow along if you want to act like the smartest guy in the room.

This isnt Madden. Experience matters. Culture matters. The inexperience of Campbell and Wilson may have been the single biggest issue in the playoffs. If protecting Drake Maye at all costs is the plan, keeping your best OL thats in his prime, when you dont need to cut him, is the smart move.

 

[scott99]

1. Will Kacmarek with a 4th round grade. Ugh.

2. We don't need a center but the 3rd round is the sweet spot. Brugler has 5 (Slaughter, Hecht, Jones, Lew, Zuhn) all with a 3rd-4th grade.

3. If we want a Tonga replacement, Tim Keenan from 'Bama (6-7 round grade) or Dontay Corleone (7-UDFA) line up really nicely in terms of value. Keenan had a bit of a down year comparitively, but in '24 had a 90 run defense grade. The godfather has 4 straight years of excellent run defense grades.

4. Taurean York and Deontae Lawson are both 6-7 round grades. Interesting value at that point. Rolder is a 4th, Jefferson a 5th-6th.

If people aren’t calling Dontay Corleone, Don Corleone, they are screwing up big time. Such a missed opportunity.

 

[manxman2601]

If people aren’t calling Dontay Corleone, Don Corleone, they are screwing up big time. Such a missed opportunity.

He does carry the nickname The Godfather.

 

[DaBruinz]

I know its just natural in your nature to be a jackass but you say so much, without saying anything. You try too hard.

I say the team has enough money to acquire Thibodeaux, keep Onwenu, and still have money left over. Pretty simple statement. You write a paragraph, attempting to discredit that, by saying they do indeed have the money to do just that. Thanks for the brilliant, long winded response.

There are people that can be cut to save cash, along with restructures, to clear out cap space. You dont need to cut your best OL thats in his prime.

As for the experience on the OL, outside of Brown and AVT, you just named basically camp bodies. You think Rupcich, Metz, and Gutierrez provide experience and leadership? In talking about experience, you then lump in Marcus Bryant and Caedan Wallace in that group? You've made some crazy statements, but they seem to get more ridiculous the more you speak. Because then you even follow up with Campbell and Wilson being the "babies" when were talking about adding in two more rookies in this scenario, with the possibility of another on day 3. Depending on Bryant, that could mean 6 OL in their 1st or 2nd year in the league. Follow along if you want to act like the smartest guy in the room.

This isnt Madden. Experience matters. Culture matters. The inexperience of Campbell and Wilson may have been the single biggest issue in the playoffs. If protecting Drake Maye at all costs is the plan, keeping your best OL thats in his prime, when you dont need to cut him, is the smart move.

The only one trying to hard and being a jackass is you., You're the one who can't comprehend basic salary cap math. I literally just proved you to be talking out your ass in regards to your claim that the team has the ability to add Thibodeaux without moving Onwenu and you STILL can't comprehend that you're wrong.

Cutting people means you're jhaving to create space, you idjit. I never said anything about cutting Onwenu. I said TRADE. Clearly you need to seriously work on you reading comprehension.

No. I didn't name camp bodies. I named the O-line players currently signed to the team. Another fact you can't wrap your head around.

You have no clue WTF actually matter. You're pulling s**t out of your ass and making moronic claims about what people have said. You should do more reading and less talking because you're seriously lacking in basic Football comprehension.