Rather than waiting anxiously at his family home in Las Vegas as the final four rounds of the NFL draft unfolded Saturday, former University of Idaho linebacker Korey Toomer decided he would join his mother, Pamelisa Travis, and girlfriend, Carrie Ojeda, for breakfast.

While he was waiting in line, his phone rang. It was the Seattle Seahawks. They had just drafted him in the fifth round, the 154th player selected overall.

"They asked me if I wanted to be a Seahawk and I said yes," said Toomer, who admitted to missing the first call from Seattle because he couldn't get to his phone in time. "I was shocked. I didn't think they were going to pick up another linebacker."

Seattle was one of Toomer's favorite places as he was whisked across the country to be weighed and measured by various NFL teams prior to the draft. The call put the thoughts of breakfast out of his mind.

"I didn't want to eat," he said. "I was ready to go work out more than anything else."

Toomer joined the Vandals in 2009 and redshirted in 2010 with a broken hand. He started at linebacker for the Vandals last season and took a few snaps at fullback - where he was an immediate hit. He scored three touchdowns against San Jose State and a two-point conversion. Toomer was the Vandals' sack and tackles-for-loss leader with four sacks and 10.5 tackles-for-loss. He totaled 68 tackles for the season.

Toomer returns to Moscow this week and will graduate the following week.

“God blessed me,” Toomer said. “I give him all the credit.”

Also on Saturday, the Seahawks drafted Utah State running back Robert Turbin in the fourth round, Florida defensive tackle Jaye Howard later in the fourth round, defensive backs Jeremy Lane of Northwestern State and Winston Guy of Kentucky in the sixth round; and final round selections of J.R. Sweezy, who will be switched from defensive tackle to offensive guard; and Louisville defensive end Greg Scruggs to close out the draft.

Howard was inside a mall store charging his battery-drained cellphone when he got the call from the Seahawks.

The Seahawks started the day by drafting Turbin, a burly carbon of Seattle’s own star Marshawn Lynch. And then all the focus went to the defense, even though that wasn’t the specific plan.

“The way the draft has fallen, every time we’ve been getting ready to pick we’ve had better defensive players, not all the time, but it seems like the majority of it,” Seattle general manager John Schneider said. “That’s the way it seems like it has fallen so far.”

It was a bounty of players, considering Seattle went into the draft with just six selections, but used a pair of trades to stockpile additional picks and leave the weekend with 10 new bodies.

The day started with Turbin, taken with the 106th overall selection. Listed at 5-foot-10, 222 pounds, Turbin passed the eye test at the NFL combine that followed up a regular season where he rushed for 1,517 yards and 19 touchdowns. He missed the entire 2010 season after tearing the ACL in his right knee.

“I’m a balanced back. What I mean by that is that I can do a little bit of everything, not only running the ball inside, but I can run the ball outside, and catch the ball out of the backfield, and line up at receiver at times,” Turbin said. “... I can do special teams. Pretty much whatever I am asked to do. My skill set is pretty broad and wide, so I’m able to do a lot of different things.”

Turbin was the second player from Utah State taken by the Seahawks after taking linebacker Bobby Wagner in the second round Friday. And they were done with going to the Western Athletic Conference well when they drafted Toomer.

“With all the speed in these guys, they give us the ability to move them around, with the special teams accent that we can play with these guys,” Carroll said. “I can see how you would look at it like a guy can play here and there, so it’s a great group in that regard.”

Versatility was also at the core of Seattle’s final four selections. Guy started his career at Kentucky as a cornerback, then played a true safety position for two seasons before being moved into a hybrid safety/linebacker spot for his senior season. Even though he played at a Football Championship Subdivision school, Lane’s best game in his senior season came against LSU when he had nine tackles and his only sack of the year, displaying the ability to play press coverage against top talent.

Scruggs played at defensive end, defensive tackle and even a little outside linebacker in his career at Louisville. Scruggs said the Seahawks intend to have him work at the “5’’ technique position behind burly defensive end Red Bryant and also provide an inside rush on passing downs.

Then there’s Sweezy, who two years ago found trouble off the field that nearly ended his football career. Sweezy straightened himself out, but will go into the pros at a completely foreign position. Sweezy was worked out by Seahawks assistant head coach Tom Cable a few weeks back to see if Sweezy could potentially make the switch to the offensive line. Seattle believes he can and will bring him in to work at guard.

“Everybody since I have been playing defense would say ‘you’d make a great offensive lineman. You would be a this-and-that offensive lineman.’ For years,” Sweezy said. “... But now, somebody that I feel actually knows what they’re talking about, coach Cable, says, ‘hey, you could play offensive line.’”

Seattle also agreed to terms with 10 undrafted free agents, including Washington wide receiver Jermaine Kearse and Oregon receiver Lavasier Tuinei. The other eight agreements are: Phil Bates, WR, Ohio; London Durham, CB, McNeese State; Rishaw Johnson, G, California (Pa.); Sean McGrath, TE, Henderson State; Jon Opperud, T, Montana; DeShawn Shead, DB, Portland State; Monte Taylor, LEO, Cincinnati; Carson Wiggs, K, Purdue.

• Various reports had four other Idaho players agreeing to terms with NFL teams as undrafted free agents — offensive tackle Matt Cleveland (Cleveland), running back Princeton McCarty (Carolina), defensive tackle Michael Cosgrove (Detroit) and offensive tackle Tyrone Novikoff (Dallas).

• Three more Boise State players were picked on Saturday, giving the Broncos a school-record six draftees. Taken Saturday was safety George Iloka by Cincinnati in the fifth round; defensive tackle Billy Winn by Cleveland in the sixth round; and offensive tackle Nate Potter by Arizona in the seventh round.

A number of other Broncos went undrafted but agreed to terms with NFL teams as free agents, including quarterback Kellen Moore (Detroit).

Ex-Boise State linebacker Byron Hout, the former Lake City High standout, had not hooked up with a team as a free agent as of Saturday evening, his grandmother Carol Parr said.

• Former Eastern Washington safety Matt Johnson was selected as the last pick in the fourth round by Dallas. He was the 135th pick overall.

Johnson will depart for Dallas next Thursday for a mini-camp.

“It’s awesome,” he said of being picked in the fourth round. “My dad grew up as a Cowboys fan, so I did too and we watched a lot of their games. I even had an Emmitt Smith jersey — it was the first one received.”

As the 135th choice overall, Johnson is only the third player in school history to be drafted in the fourth round or higher. Michael Roos was taken in the second round by the Tennessee Titans in 2005 and Taiwan Jones was picked by the Oakland Raiders in the fourth round in 2011. Both currently play for those teams.

Johnson, who finished his Eastern career with 341 tackles to rank fifth in school history and eighth all-time in the Big Sky, missed Eastern’s last four games of his senior season with a biceps injury. But because he played in 45 career games — and had impressive workouts and test results in the winter — he wasn’t particularly surprised by being picked in the fourth round. Most experts had him taken late in the draft or as a free agent signing.

• Montana linebacker Caleb McSurdy, who attended Borah High in Boise, was chosen by Dallas in the seventh round at 222nd overall.