2018 NFL Draft: Seattle Seahawks 7-round mock
By Conor Dorney
The Seahawks could be in the market for a slot cornerback and Tulane’s Parry Nickerson fits the bill in the seventh round. Nickerson posted a blazing 4.32-second 40-yard dash at the Combine last week, as well as an impressive 15 reps on the bench press.
Nickerson posted 16 interceptions in his career with the Green Wave, including six in 2017, tying him for third on the interceptions leaderboard in all of college football. Despite being a bit undersized (6-foot-0 and 180 pounds), Nickerson has a history of great production and coverage skills that would be a solid addition to the rapidly-changing Seahawks secondary in 2018.
The Seahawks have struggled to find an answer at the LEO position since the departure of Bruce Irvin (and more recently, Cassius Marsh) in free agency, but Tennessee State’s Ebo Ogundeko is one player who could help fill that role next season. His production didn’t exactly light up the stat sheet despite playing at a smaller school (5.5 sacks in 2016, 4.0 in 2017), but Pete Carroll certainly loves his former five-star reclamation projects as any coach in the NFL.
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Ogundeko (6-foot-2 and 241 pounds) was dismissed from Clemson after signing with them out of high school and wound up at Tennessee State. The Seahawks have scouted Tennessee State fairly heavily over the past two seasons and I believe those trips have been primarily to look at Ogundeko.