5 teams that should stop the Will Levis 2023 NFL Draft freefall
By Josh Wilson
Teams that should stop Will Levis slide: Seattle Seahawks
I really like this fit for both Levis and the Seattle Seahawks. I would have liked Anthony Richardson even more, but he wasn’t available for the Sehawks at fifth overall on Thursday.
Seattle and Pete Carroll have had a knack for getting more out of quarterbacks than competitors expect. Russell Wilson was a third-round pick and was written off due to his height. Then, he won a Super Bowl and found himself in nine Pro Bowls as a Seahawk.
After him? Geno Smith, a journeyman quarterback largely seen as a career backup before Carroll adopted him and gave him a shot to earn his current contract.
That deal is three years, which creates a path for Levis to become a starter in due time while learning the ropes of the NFL. There’s an economical path out of the contract before 2025 if the Seahawks want to move on from Smith and onto Levis by then, too.
Smith could impart a lot of great knowledge to Levis. Both were doubted, and Smith has overcome those doubts at a relatively high level, within the same system that Levis would be entering in this scenario. For many of the following teams on this list, one of the key elements is a quarterback that has defied at least some level of doubt/skepticism from the NFL world. That’ll be important for Levis to have in a mentor after his unlikely fall out of the first round in this year’s draft.
The Seahawks rank lower because there are teams that fit better and/or pick before Seattle does (37 overall) in the second round.