The Seahawks were torn between drafting an offensive tackle or a quarterback with the 25th overall pick in last week's NFL Draft. They opted to take Alabama tackle James Carpenter, leaving TCU quarterback Andy Dalton on the board for the Bengals to grab 10 picks later. "We debated with Andy Dalton, there's no question about it," Seahawks general manager John Schneider said. "But I think we all felt like we were at a point in our development where we couldn't pass on a starting tackle right now." The Seahawks won the NFC West in 2010 despite an offensive line that featured numerous in-season changes. "Quite honestly, we'd like to have a guy, especially a rookie (quarterback), be more of a developmental type and a guy more like Aaron Rodgers and sit for a year or two," said Schneider, who added that he believes Dalton could play right away. "So that was really the only point in the draft where there was a guy where we were like, 'There he is, that's a very viable option.' Quite honestly, we just had guys throughout the board that just didn't make sense as we went down comparing them to other positions."