The video above is a review package of Dorial Green-Beckham’s pro-day. Note the occasional flash of ‘College Navy’ and ‘Action Green’ being sported by one of the observers. The Seattle coach/scout in attendance went through some drills with DGB and was spotted talking to him too.

This follows a previous Tweet by Charles Robinson on March 16th claiming the Seahawks were “digging into” Green-Beckham. Robinson says if he slides to round two, the Seahawks need to be monitored.

It’d be very easy to assume all of this is an elaborate smokescreen. It’s not often you see legit speculation over Seattle’s targets two months before the draft. There’s also cause not to treat every morsel of information with suspicion. Christine Michael provided a running commentary on Twitter of his visit with the Seahawks in 2013. We all heard about Carroll and Schneider’s game of bowling with Russell Okung before the 2010 draft. Doug Baldwin went on the radio to predict the Seahawks would draft Paul Richardson last year.

Then there’s the big one. Chris Mortensen didn’t report Seattle wanted Russell Wilson, he merely knew about it. He told Russell Wilson before the 2012 draft he was going to be a Seattle Seahawk. At least one reporter — Mortsensen — knew about the one player Schneider tried so hard to hide his interest in.

“People were aware that Seattle liked him”

Of course none of this is the coach turning up to the pro-day — the kind of stuff that typically becomes a red herring. Even so, there could be a bit of reverse psychology at play here. Good luck working it out. I just don’t think we should write this off.

Tony Pauline told us he wouldn’t draft Green-Beckham in the top-50 and I suspect a lot of teams will share that view. I didn’t ask Pauline at the time whether that was the feeling voiced by his sources — but let’s look at the situation. The NFL is still trying to repair its reputation after the whole Rice/Peterson/Hardy saga. Josh Gordon is a talented nightmare for the Browns. All of this stuff weighs on the mind of decision makers.

You’re looking at another loaded class of wide outs. You could make a case for their being ten alternative options in the first two rounds. You can avoid the risks and still find an impact player in this class.

As soon as DGB drops beyond pick #50 he’s a possible target. The Seahawks can realistically give up a fourth round pick to move up (if they even need to). In the late second he becomes fair game for a few different teams. We’ve talked about the depth in rounds 3-5 at various positions — but I suspect we’ll see a weaker point in the draft at around #55-65 where the value is pretty average. The grade range might drop significantly from the earlier part of round two. That could be a reason why Seattle considers moving up.

If the “digging” the Seahawks did on DGB gives them the confidence to take him, there’s always a chance other teams will jump to that same conclusion. He could go quite early — he’s talented enough. There does appear, however, to be momentum behind this possible drop beyond pick #50. While ever there are alternative options (especially at receiver) there’s a chance he falls. The sheer depth of quality at wide out encourages that to happen. Eventually someone will bite in round two. It won’t necessarily be the Seahawks — but it could be.