A cluster of names still sat on the Seahawks draft board as the seventh round of the 2016 NFL Draft began. Seattle had two picks left, numbers 243 and 247 overall, but while the draft was winding down, the fun was just getting started.

With the draft coming to a conclusion soon, Seahawks general manager John Schneider, his scouting department and Seahawks coaches were tasked not only with deciding who to take with those final two picks; they also were about to switch into something of a controlled-chaos mode in order to add what would end up being a 13-player class of undrafted free agents.

These moments, the late rounds transitioning into free agency, are Schneider's favorites during the three-day draft process.

"I think like the sixth-, seventh-(round), free-agency part is really a blast because the draft room kind of changes," Schneider said before the draft. "We make it like, not a completely different room, but it just becomes kind of like the floor of the stock market or something. Everybody has specific roles and everybody just gets after it. And everybody wants to put Pete on the phone because he's like the ultimate recruiter."

But before the draft room can convert into Schneider's stock market floor, there were still those two picks to make.

Moments after Washington took Georgia running back Keith Marshall with the 242nd pick, Schneider was on the phone with California receiver Kenny Lawler.

"What are you doing still on that board, man?" Schneider asked Lawler before informing the sure-handed receiver that he's about to become a Seahawk. "Hey man, it's not where you start, it's where you finish."

Schneider then handed the phone to Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who said, "Hey, is this one of Upland High School's all-timers that I'm talking to?" After a brief chat, Carroll ended their talk with, "You come in here ready to rip and compete your ass off," then handed the phone to receivers coach Dave Canales, who might have been just as excited about this moment as Lawler was.

"You ready to roll man?" Canales asked.

"I can't wait," Lawler responded.

Before running to the back of the room, high-fiving and fist-pumping about the pick, Canales told Lawler, "You've been one of my favorite dudes in this whole process."

A few minutes later, a TV in the corner of the room tuned into ESPN showed Lawler highlights, and a crowd of coaches and scouts, including Carroll and Schneider, took a break from their work to watch their new receiver haul in touchdown pass after touchdown pass.

With only four minutes between picks in the seventh round, the Seahawks couldn't enjoy the Lawler pick for very long. Schneider hollered out a warning, more to the room than to anyone in particular, that Seattle's next pick was coming up soon and that they had to be ready.

The Seahawks had already picked two running backs in this draft, taking Notre Dame's C.J. Prosise in the third round and Arkansas' Alex Collins in the fifth, so running back might not have been the most obvious pick, but there was one name that stood out when it was time for the Seahawks to make their last pick in the draft. Schneider, among others in the room, really liked Clemson running back Zac Brooks, so rather than take a player at a position at which the Seahawks had not yet drafted, something like linebacker or defensive back, Schneider stuck to his board and made the call to the third running back the Seahawks would draft in a two-day span.

"Zac, hey, it's John Schneider in Seattle," he said. "You doing all right man? Hey, welcome to the ball club, we're selecting you right here."

Schneider referenced Brooks' draft position near the very end of the draft, and repeated the same message he had for Lawler: "It's not where you start, it's where you finish, right brother?

"There you go," Brooks said with high-pitch shrieks of excitement coming through his phone from the people in the room with him. "That's what's most important."

Next up was Carroll, who told Brooks, "Come in here with a great attitude and compete your ass off. We think you're a heck of a football player and a great kid, we can't wait to get you in here."

While Carroll was still on the phone, Schneider was already thinking not just about his new players, but the potential ramifications of every pick. The Seahawks liked the three backs they took, but they also really like Thomas Rawls, last year's rookie standout, so even as he was worried about the upcoming free-agency frenzy, Schneider asked assistant running backs coach Chad Morton to call Rawls and assure the second-year back that those picks were in no way a reflection of the team's opinion of him.

Running backs coach Sherman Smith talked to Brooks last asking, "You ready to come prove a point?" Brooks said he was, and moments later, his name flashed across the bottom of the TV. The Seahawks 2016 draft had come to an end.