Let's wait and see how Seahawks' draft plays out

Let’s start with this…

I have no earthly idea how to “grade” the Seahawks draft.

Oh, you can find hundreds of so-called experts on TV, radio and every kind of social media who claim to know which teams hit it big and which teams wet the bed during that three-day party over the weekend in Nashville.

But the truth is that NOBODY knows.

What we can say for certain is that they probably ought to hold the draft in Music City every year, since a mere 250,000 mobbed downtown Nashville for the first-round festivities on Thursday night.

Unfortunately, like every other local or regional sports columnist, I’m obliged to have some opinion on our “home” team’s draft.

Therefore…

Yes, I can tell you that Seahawks GM John Schneider did what has become routine for him — which is trading down to acquire more picks in lower rounds.

SCHNEIDER OUTDID himself this time, magically turning four picks into 11, assuming you count the trade of edge rusher Frank Clark to Kansas City just before the draft.

So what did Seattle acquire with that raft of picks?

Ah, that’s a harder question to answer, and we’ll actually need a football field with some other teams on it to see any definitive result.

What we DO know is that some organizations are very good at this sort of personnel juggling and some are not.

The Seahawks are on the extreme high side of that scale, which is why they made the playoffs last year during a rebuilding process — not that Coach Pete Carroll would ever mention that word.

Carroll insists that he’s thinking of the Super Bowl every season.

Of course, Carroll also claimed that he didn’t sign Colin Kaepernick to back up Russell Wilson because Kaepernick was really an NFL starter.

You may occasionally hear a wee bit of bull pucky from ol’ Pete.

So just as we should with every coach and management member in pro sports, let’s take what Schneider, Carroll (and definitely ALL draft experts) tell us with a large mountain of salt.

No one has ever concluded a draft and said, “You know what? We’re kind of disappointed in this gang of stiffs.”

WE DO know that the Seahawks are preparing for the retirement of wide receiver Doug Baldwin, who has had either three or four surgeries this offseason.

I listened to him explain all the procedures and still can’t give you the exact number.

But Baldwin is a guy who values life after football, like being able to walk upright and remember his way home from the grocery store — so he’s ready to quit at age 30.

We also know that safety Earl Thomas is in Baltimore and Clark was fetched up in Kansas City, so there are plenty of holes to fill.

Did the Seahawks manage it?

Well, they drafted the most beautiful body available in Ole Miss receiver D.K. Metcalf, a 6-2, 228-pound specimen who ran the 40 in 4.33 seconds, has just 2 percent body fat and cried genuine tears of gratitude when Schneider and Carroll phoned him with the news.

Just go long, D.K., and we’ll see if Russell can throw it that far.

SEATTLE SNAGGED the gentleman with the most tackles in college football a year ago, linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven from down the road at U-Dub — and the receiver who caught the most TD passes, John Ursua of Hawaii.

Ursua was the Seahawks’ final selection in the seventh round, most likely because he’s only 5-9 and weighs 177 pounds.

The kid will be lucky if first pick L. J. Collier doesn’t accidentally eat him with his bacon and eggs at training camp.

One theme that’s almost automatic for any Seahawks draft came up again this time around — commentators’ use of phrases like “has a mean streak” or “plays with a nasty edge.”

The Hawks’ second pick, wicked-hitting Utah safety Marquise Blair, was ejected from three college games for targeting.

Same Seahawks, new group.

Super Bowl or bust, says Carroll.

As it should be.

Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns for The Press appear on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Steve also contributes the “Zags Tracker” package on Gonzaga basketball once monthly during the offseason.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com