The Seahawks have been bizarrely infatuated with players from the notoriously bad 2013 NFL Draft ...So it would only be fitting if Geno Smith ended up being the team’s starting quarterback
selection, as he was acquired via trade in what was a contract year for Richardson and an act of desperation from Seattle after the Malik McDowell ATV crash. Richardson wasn’t a reclamation project or a “second chance” signing like the others. Marquise Goodwin doesn’t count either since he was drafted midway through Round 3 and I only focused on the top two rounds.
And then we have Geno Smith. He was the 39th player taken but only the second quarterback off the board behind E.J. Manuel. His tenure with the New York Jets included a staggering turnover problem, and an injury caused by teammate IK Enemkpali punching him in the face. Smith lost his job, then had an ACL tear the following season, and you know the rest of the story.
But the main theme of this article is the Seahawks and their never-ending fascination with such a poor draft class. Every player I’ve listed above except Ansah was considered a bust to some degree —. And when Ansah was signed by Seattle he was coming off an injury-riddled 2018 that was a precursor to his rapid decline as a player. Lacy might not have been a traditional bust given how his career began in Green Bay, but he was a reclamation project just to get him on weight again.
Pete Carroll loves individual reclamation projects; Big Mike Williams was the first major one in 2010. For that season it worked out above expectation. Their recent reclamation efforts — those “low risk, high reward” moves — especially from that particular 2013 group have been costly beyond the money spent.
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