No trade. Top need met: Why Seahawks picked Notre Dame’s Jaradian Price round 1
Price 4th running back Seattle has selected in the first round in team history. Kenneth Walker signing with Kansas City necessitated.
They did it again. The Seahawks got what they needed most, first. With trades galore going on right before them, the Seahawks got what they got in last year’s draft: Biggest need converged with the best player on their 2026 NFL draft board Thursday night.
Instead of trading down, per their usual, the Super Bowl champions selected Notre Dame running back Jadarian Price 32nd overall, the final pick of the first round. The same need and best player met in the first round last year for Seattle, with 18th-overall choice Grey Zabel. That worked out OK for the Seahawks.
Zabel became their new stud starter at left guard immediately. And Seattle won the Super Bowl. Price arrives one month after lead running back and Super Bowl most valuable player Kenneth Walker left Seattle.
He signed a rich free-agent contact with Kansas City. None of the seven running backs on the Seahawks’ 90-man offseason roster entering Thursday are signed past 2026. Price is only the fourth running back in 51 years of Seahawks football the team selected in the first round.