Is Matt Flynn good? I don’t know. He could be Kevin Kolb. He could be Matt Schaub. Flynn has looked excellent in 2 career starts with the Packers, but that was with Green Bay’s weapons around him, not to mention against not so tough defenses in New England and Detroit. It was also 2 starts and Flynn was thought so little of that he went all the way in the 7^th round in 2008. Yes, he led LSU to a National Championship, but Jordan Jefferson was a game away from doing the same.

However, is Matt Flynn better than Tarvaris Jackson? Probably. The Seahawks were not in a position to grab a quarterback in the first round of the draft unless they traded up to grab Ryan Tannehill, who isn’t a whole lot less of a crapshoot than Flynn. They probably would have had to settle for Kirk Cousins, best case scenario, in the 2^nd round. They didn’t risk a ton of money (10 million guaranteed, 26 million max over 3 years) and this was a risk they almost had to take given the state of their franchise.

Grade: B