Although the Seahawks weren't able to trade away their first-round pick on Day 1 of the NFL Draft, Seattle was finally able to accomplish that goal, trading away their No. 96, third-round pick in exchange for No. 99 (third-round) and No. 216 (sixth-round) from the Pittsburgh Steelers.

On Day 2, the Seahawks added to their secondary, adding safety Bud Clark out of TCU and cornerback Julian Neal from Arkansas. Clark and Neal are two players general manager/president of football operations John Schneider and head coach Mike Macdonald are excited about because of their competitiveness, confidence and physicality they both will bring.

"Added two Seahawks, like through and through guys," Schneider said. "Competitors, athletes, tough. Just great job by Josh (Graff) and Ryan (Florence), really getting to know the people, the competitors. It was a fun day, and we were able to make a trade. So, we give Pittsburgh a lot of credit for doing a great job and working with us."

After Clark and Neal's conference calls with the media after being drafted, two takeaways were that both Clark and Neal are filled with energy and confidence.

"[Julian Neal is] a really confident athlete," Schneider said. "And he's been through a lot. The young hipper scouts, they have a saying for leveling up and this guy's done it. He went to Fresno and enrolled at Stanford for a minute and then wanted to challenge himself in the SEC and he did it, performed at a high level. They're both really confident guys. Bud's going to be fun too. He's a blast. Mike and I were talking about the personalities throughout the process. Man, if we put Bud and Spoon (Devon Witherspoon) in the same room, what's going to happen? Nick in his second year."

While they are different players and at the end of the day have differing personalities, Clark and Neal both fit into the culture Seattle has built.

Macdonald said, "They've got swag, they've got confidence, but they have humility. They play an exciting brand of football, which we feel like we're excited to work with. So I think that's the common denominator."

Schneider added, "And they understand it's the ultimate team sport. They have that self-awareness self-sacrifice. All the lessons, whoever in the room has played football has learned from the game."

Both of Seattle's Day 2 picks will have to come in and compete for reps. Clark is stepping into a room that already includes free agent Rodney Thomas II and Ty Okada, who filled in a large role last season for an injured Julian Love and Coby Bryant at different points throughout the season. Neal will be joining a room that includes Witherspoon and Josh Jobe.

"Bud has a really great, cool, exciting skillset and personality, competitive spirit to him," Macdonald said. "We're not just going to play him at safety. You can play nickel, could probably play corner for us. We'll figure that out kind of as we go and how the team kind of shapes up. But we got some really great players at safety two that are going to compete. I mean, Ty Okada won a lot of games, helped win us a lot of games last year. Rodney Thomas is a guy that we're really high on. A lot of guys. So it's going to be a lot of great competition, but Bud has the skillsets that we're looking for in our secondary play with the competitiveness, the ball skills, the man demand ability, that type of stuff."

Clark's versatility will be a useful tool in Seattle's defense, but Macdonald is aware they have to be calculated in the way they use him.

"You got to be careful when you say versatility because to be like a Jack All Trades master and none is not really our brand of ball," Macdonald said. "So we got to be intentional on how we play our players, but as we've seen last year, you need guys to be able to do different things, whether it's like attrition over the course of the season, or as you build out your systems on the things you need to be able to do, obviously being able to do more is better, but it's our responsibility as coaches to make sure it's refined and focused enough that it's still in our guys' wheelhouse so they can go play their best ball and let their talents shine. But that's why you go through the process. That's why you do your tech phase one like crazy, and you just respect all the importance of each day because that'll kind of bring everything into focus."

So far, the Seahawks draft is going just about how they expected it to, when it comes to the players they have drafted.

Schneider said, "Matt Berry sent me a text on [Thursday] morning with these three guys' names. It's like, okay. And we did just kind of scrimmage this out a lot. 'OK, is it a runner or a corner or corner or runner?' You know what I mean? All the way through it like that. And no, we're really excited just to be able to, that balance of best player, team need really, really held true."