A great reminder that the NFL Draft is inching nearer and nearer is that the stream of leaks about totally different draft prospects visiting the Seattle Seahawks begin to come via. The most recent 30 go to to be introduced this week was tight finish Mason Taylor out of LSU. That is the primary identified Seahawks go to for a good finish, with broad receiver Savion Williams being the one different identified pass-catcher to go to Seattle.
Taylor has the NFL in his blood already; he’s the son of Professional Soccer Corridor-of-Famer, Jason Taylor, and the nephew of Professional Soccer Corridor-of-Famer, Zach Thomas. Masonplayed instantly as a real freshman and impressed sufficient to earn 2022 Freshman All-SEC honors. Over his three years at LSU, Taylor turned the best tight finish in LSU historical past with 129 receptions for 1,308 yards and 6 touchdowns. This manufacturing has led to Taylor being one of many prime tight ends accessible on this years’ NFL Draft. Daniel Jeremiah ranks Taylor has his thirty second total participant, and third finest tight finish prospect (after Tyler Warren and Colston Loveland). Mel Kiper in the meantime ranks Taylor has his fourth tight finish (behind Warren, Loveland, and Elijah Arroyo). With these rankings, amongst others, Taylor seems to be a lock for Day 2 on this yr’s draft.
Seattle’s tight finish room at the moment consists of Noah Fant, AJ Barner, Brady Russell, and Eric Saubert. Each Russell and Saubert are substitute stage gamers and are on one-year contracts. In the meantime Fant, if lower or traded would save the Seahawks $8.9 million towards the cap, with solely a $4.5 million lifeless cap hit. Including Taylor to the room would instantly elevate the ground of the tight finish room this yr, with the possibility of changing Fant subsequent yr and permitting Barner and Taylor to be your one-two punch for the subsequent few years.
Fortunate for you, Subject Gulls is monitoring all of those 30 visits. These visits are higher often known as “30-visits.” A 30-visit is a proper in-person assembly the NFL groups get to have with draft prospects. Every NFL staff will get 30 of those visits (which is the place the title comes from) and consists of NFL groups bringing in these prospects to their amenities for interviews and physicals. These 30-visits enable a staff just like the Seahawks to conduct additional interviews and conduct physicals with the gamers. Native prospects don’t depend towards a staff’s restrict of visits.
