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.