Seattle -- Welcome to the latest installment of my “Morning Coffee” blog, Seahawks fanatics. In this blog, I have some tidbits, musings and rumors to discuss. I’ll be doing a weekly report on all things related the Seattle Seahawks. That could be an injury take, trade takes and even mock draft takes as the season progresses. Hope you join the discussion!
• What a first round. Seattle gets the guy they’ve coveted since he declared for the draft and they’ve filled a huge hole that they neglected during free agency. Had Julian Love accepted the contract offer at the trade deadline, Malaki Starks isn’t getting called by the Seattle Seahawks.
• Malaki Starks becomes the first defensive back drafted in the first round since Earl Thomas was made the 14th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. The Seattle Seahawks allegedly were torn between Abdul Carter and Malaki Starks and traded up for the latter when the Bills rejected Seattle’s trade offer shortly before Los Angeles made him their pick at #12. Starks joins an impressive secondary unit which already boasts Devon Witherspoon, Tariq Woolen and Isaiah Simmons. You can believe that Seattle has built their second legion of boom era and it has every bit of potential to match the first iteration which led them to two Super Bowls and four division titles.
• Starks was the consensus #1 safety in this year’s class. 247Sports has Starks reminding them of Patrick Queen and On3 reminds us of Landon Collins while NFLDraftBuzz compares Starks with Lewis Cine, Daxton Hill and Kerby Joseph.
• The best players still available going into the second round which would interest Seattle are QB Quinn Ewers, QB Drew Allar, LG Marcus Tate, LG Micah Mazzccua, LG Jonah Savaiinaea, RG Tyler Booker, RT Josh Simmons, LE Dani Dennis-Sutton, RE Jack Sawyer, DT Deone Walker.
• Of the list I just mentioned, Micah Mazzccua, Tyler Booker and Deone Walker interest the Seahawks the most. They pick late in the second round, so it’s how the chips fall once again before they make their pick. It's their only selection for day two tomorrow. They have no third round selection and will have to wait till the fourth round where they have two selections.