Its possible, but according to Schnieder:
Back in August when the Seahawks were in Kansas City for a preseason game, general manager John Schneider made a detour to Lawrence to visit the University of Kansas. While he was there, Schneider talked with Troy Kema, the Jayhawks’ director of player personnel and student services, who until 2015 had worked at Texas A&M.
Before Schneider and Kema got very far in their conversation, Kema had a message for Schneider.
“You can ask me about all these guys at Kansas and you can ask me about all the guys at Texas A&M, and I’m just going to tell you one thing—if you don’t draft Germain Ifedi, you have no idea what you’re doing,” Schneider recalls Kema telling him.
“I was like, ‘All right. I guess we’re drafting Germain Ifedi,’” Schneider said with a grin Thursday night a few minutes after the Seahawks did indeed draft Ifedi.
Eight months after that visit to Lawrence, the Seahawks followed Kema’s advice, taking Ifedi with the 31st pick of the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft. Seattle originally held the 26th pick in Thursday’s first round, but traded it to Denver for the 31st pick and a third-rounder (No. 94 overall). Seattle’s first-round pick, it turn out, was in demand, with four or five teams inquiring about the pick eventually used on Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said.
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