As the first round wound down on Thursday, the Seahawks considered a move to get back into the first round.

Seahawks general manager and president of football operations John Schneider revealed that move never materialized a day later, and was comfortable doing so because after failing to get a deal done Thursday night, they were able to do so early in Friday's second round, getting the player they were targeting the previous night, South Carolina safety Nick Emmanwori.

Emmanwori was one of three players the Seahawks added on an eventful Day 2 of the 2025 NFL Draft along with University of Miami tight end Elijah Arroyo, who Seattle took later in the second round at No. 50 overall, and University of Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe, who was selected in the third round at No. 92 overall.

"Exciting day," Schneider said. "It's a cool day in Seahawks history, really is. Started out outstanding with Nick. We waited on Arroyo. Adding Jalen right there at the end was a big deal for us. Really excited about it."

The excitement started early in the second round for the Seahawks with the trade for the 35^th overall pick to select Emmanwori—Seattle sent a pick later in the round (52 overall) and a third rounder (82) to Tennessee in the trade—and continued with a couple more picks that had Schneider, Macdonald and everyone else in the Derrick Jensen Draft Room thrilled with the day's draft haul.

After picking Emmanwori, the Seahawks used another second-round pick on Arroyo, a player Schneider said could have been a Top 15 pick if not for his injury history, then after a long wait to their next pick in the third round, the Seahawks added Milroe, a dynamic dual-threat quarterback who was a two-year starter and two-time team captain at Alabama.

"Talk about all three guys, having just a consensus, a plan for them, a vision for them joining our team," Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said. "All three really exciting in their own right. Yeah, it's a great day."

The Seahawks gave up a third-round pick to move up 15 spots in the second round to get Emmanwori, which is not an insignificant price to pay, but given how highly they thought of him, it was a price Seattle was happy to pay to add what they considered to be another first-round talent.

"We had him right next to Grey (Zabel)," Schneider said. "Your question last night, 'Other people you're interested in?' Yeah. Great relationship with Chad Brinker, Tennessee (Titans president of football operations). We were talking to a couple clubs there. Yeah, it worked out great. We were a little nervous that things were going to fall apart there. Not sure how far he would have gone. Felt like a way. 50, 52 felt like a far distance. He wouldn't have fallen there. This is one of the best Combines I've ever seen.

"We felt like we added two first-round draft picks. When you're doing that, we're giving up a third-round pick, then you have to figure out what the third round is going to look like once everything is picked apart there. It was just evident to Mike (Macdonald) and myself, everybody in the room, that it was well worth it."

As Schneider detailed, the trade was one the Seahawks began talking about the night before after attempts to trade into the first round for Emmanwori didn't work out.

"Last night we had a lot of conversations about, 'How do we do this?'" Schneider said. "We almost traded back up in to get Nick. Everybody was extremely passionate about it. If we would have come out of the draft without him, we would have been disappointed. Now, same thing with Elijah (Arroyo). Everybody was talking throughout the process, throughout all of our meetings. 'Are we going to be ok with this guy? Are we going to be able to use him? How do you add that guy?' All four, the people, the competitors, the athletes, they just feel special. I can't describe it any different than to say they feel special, like they feel different. It's a great thing, like I said last night, respecting the group of players that are here right now, to be able to add these guys in. It's going to be outstanding."

In Emmanwori, the Seahawks are getting a player who is nearly as big as Seahawks Legend Kam Chancellor, but who also put up off-the-charts testing numbers at the NFL Scouting Combine, including a 4.38-second 40-yard dash, an 11-foot, 6-inch broad jump and a 43-inch vertical leap.

"He's been a guy that our whole staff has been really excited about the whole process," Macdonald said. "How do you watch his tape and not just see the potential of what he can become? To our coaches' credit, they really felt strongly about it. Go through the process, get aligned with the scouts, the scouts felt the same way. It's our job to kind of make it come to life now, which is the fun process. Get in here, go to rookie football school, learn what a slot formation is, 21 personnel. Build it from the ground up. If you do it the right way, I believe it can be something special."

Milroe, meanwhile, joins an already crowded quarterback room, but the way the draft was falling, he was the clear choice by the time Seattle's third-round pick rolled around, giving the Seahawks a rare athlete, as well as a person who blew the Seahawks away in interviews, at the game's most important position.

"Give Ryan Florence and Aaron Hineline a ton of credit," Schneider said. "Those guys did a ton of work on him. It's really hard on those guys to be able to see 22 miles an hour, whatever he ran around the field. He's an incredible athlete. Very, very fast. I think literally it's 21.2, something like that, his GPS speed. Hard worker. He's a William Campbell Award, Academic Heisman Award winner. Has had four different offensive coordinators. Works his tail off. Mom, former Navy. Dad is a Marine. He came in on a visit, had a really great visit. He was in a spot and he just kept coming. He was there by himself."

With Sam Darnold joining the team in the offseason, and with Drew Lock and Sam Howell also on the team, there will be no pressure on Milroe to play immediately, but given his unique traits, the Seahawks can also find ways to get him on the field in small doses.

"Jalen is going to be right there with everybody else," Macdonald said of the position group. "Sam (Darnold) is going to take by far and away over 90 percent of our snaps this year. However, Jalen deserves and earns the right to go out there, then we'll do that. If it's going to help the team, and (it's the best way) for us to move the ball, give these defensive coordinators some headaches, which I'm really happy it's not going to be us, that's awesome. I don't want to put a timetable on it. It's not an immediate need for him to go out there and be taking a bunch of snaps for us initially."

What Milroe can do athletically doesn't mean the Seahawks see him as anything but a quarterback, however. That was clear when Macdonald was asked a question comparing Milroe's roll to that of New Orleans' hybrid quarterback/tight-end Taysom Hill, who was coached by current Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak last year.

"I don't think it's fair to say Taysom," Macdonald said. "Taysom is such a great player. The way they used him was more in a tight end-fullback hybrid role, sometimes taking snaps. Jalen is a quarterback through and through. He's going to be trained to play quarterback for us. When he's in there, he's going to be playing quarterback. But the athleticism is going to come to life when he's on the field. That's how he's going to help us."

Arroyo, who missed significant playing time in 2022 and 2023 due to injury before playing all 13 games for Miami last year, came into the draft as one of the top tight ends, but could very well have gone even higher if not for his injury history, Schneider said.

"You have to be real about it, he has missed time," Schneider said. "If he hasn't missed time, the talent is like a Top 15 pick, so this guy's special."

Macdonald called Arroyo a unique player, noting "This guy can run an extensive route tree. To have to account for a tight end body on the field and him also to be able to split out wide, do X receiver type of things, bigger body that we probably have right now on our roster, just provides a ton of value. Then he's going to throw it in there as the actual tight end in-line and be able to create some of those bigger personnel formations is the vision that we have for him. Really exciting."

With the draft wrapping up on Saturday, the Seahawks head into the day with five picks remaining:

• Round 4, No. 137
• Round 5, No. 172
• Round 5, No. 175
• Round 7, No. 223
• Round 7, No. 234