The Seattle Seahawks were very busy in the seventh round of the 2026 NFL Draft after previous trades including the one with the Green Bay Packers that netted them No. 236 (Andre Fuller) and No. 255 for No. 216. John Schneider made it 50% secondary picks in the draft, choosing his fourth new member of the DB group in cornerback Michael Dansby from Arizona
. Dansby doesn’t have much in terms of testing numbers, but he’s apparently very, very fast…according to himself.Athletic Profile/Comps
Relative Athletic Score (RAS)
Mockdraftable
N/A – No Data
As I mentioned above,
we really don’t have much to go on here with just height, weight, length, and bench. Of those, Dansby is light, not very strong, and has short arms. Not very inspiring. There’s no Mockdraftable to speak of either without testing data.
So, scratch official testing data. Apparently, Dansby ran a very fast 40-yard dash time while training.
If true, that would be great! However, “If if’s and but’s were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.” We’ll just have to go with the RAS comps and use our imagination a bit. Chase Lucas and Kevon Seymour present positive scenarios in terms of output from a seventh-round pick.
Both Lucas and Seymour are essentially dead-ringers in terms of size and strength. Both of them also played a lot of special teams snaps, with Seymour getting some regular time on defense early in his career. Lucas had excellent explosion and agility scores while Seymour was better in terms of speed. Dansby would’ve blown them both out of the water if he was anywhere near his self-reported 4.25 40-yard dash time while training.
Since we don’t have testing for Dansby, I’m going to skip right on to the Seahawks comps, purely based on size. The first one was actually in the RAS list.
Those are certainly some names! Having Kelly Jennings as a comp will never be popular, but offsetting that with Jeremy Lane, DJ Reed, and Justin Coleman is kind of neat. I’m a little proud of the Marcus Burley pull too if I’m being honest. Maybe the most interesting thing is that besides Burley and Coleman, the rest of the list also had poor bench numbers like Dansby.
Without full testing, we can’t go much further than this. Dansby does have similar size and strength to some former Seahawks, which is notable.
Gut reaction to the pick
Boy, Seattle was really hitting the CBs hard in the draft, huh? They need depth after the departure of Riq Woolen, and Nehemiah Pritchett hasn’t necessarily lit the world on fire. Throw as many darts at the board and see how many stick. Maybe the fact that Dansby wasn’t able to test helped him slide to the Seahawks? Let’s stay positive on this one.
Rookie season prediction
I came into this thinking that Dansby had a very low probability to make the Seahawks initial 53-man roster. Maybe it’s just a gut feeling, but now I’m not so sure. We’ve got Devon Witherspoon and Josh Jobe 100% locks with fellow rookie third-rounder Julian Neal as a 99.99% lock. After that, it will be a battle between other fellow rookie Andre Fuller, Dansby, Noah Igbinoghene, Nehemiah Pritchett, and a few others. Dansby’s got ball skills, too.
He also has club control and a cheap contract, which could put him at an advantage over guys like Igbinoghene. Seattle used a draft pick on him likely because they didn’t think they could bring him in as a UDFA. Could there be three rookie CBs that make the roster in 2026?
Nope.
Dansby will lose out on the final roster spot, but his lack of testing and late draft status will allow him to pass through waivers to the Ready Squad. He’ll earn his practice squad elevations and bide his time while he waits for another crack at the roster in 2027.
