Hold off on printing those playoff tickets, Seattle

Do the draft-day grade givers ever take grades back? Just wondering because I don't think any team's draft day was gushed over more than Seattle's, not just because of their terrific draft haul of Russell Okung, Earl Thomas and Golden Tate, but because of their draft-day trades for RBs Leon Washington and LenDale White. Pundits raced one another to see who could give Seattle the best draft grade.

Well, hold your dopily-spelled telecom company phone. Lendale White has been cut. That's right; the Seahawks spent (swapped, actually) two draft picks on a guy who couldn't even make it to training camp. As impossibly hard as it would appear to be to look lazy at an OTA, the Seattle brass was apparently very disappointed with White's work ethic. AND he apparently was in line for a four-week drug suspension from the league.


As for Washington, reports are that he'll start training camp on the physically-unable-to-perform (PUP) list.

As for the rest of Seattle's draft, well, how well did Kansas City do last year after earning everyone's accolades on draft day? Yeah, 4-12.

Just a reminder to everybody that a good draft day is just a start, not a free pass to the postseason.