On Monday, the Seattle Seahawks broke up the summer doldrums of the offseason with a series of rosters moves, which gave fans something resembling actual football to discuss while awaiting the start of training camp.
The moves themselves were unremarkable, with the team waiving a trio of undrafted free agents and adding a former undrafted free agent running back who had most recently played in the UFL. However, the result of these moves leaves Seattle with a pair of open roster spots with roughly three weeks until rookies report to training camp in the middle of July.
With that in mind, and with the recent 53-man roster projection from Field Gulls own Managing Editor Mookie Alexander, there is a glaring hole at wide receiver that the team could address between now and training camp. That is not to say that the Seahawks don’t have talent at the position, they most certainly do. However, within a wide receiver room there are specific roles that complement one another, and right now the ‘Hawks are lacking a speedy deep threat.
The Hawks are loaded with shifty receivers able to create separation and get open in Tyler Lockett, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Jake Bobo, but in order for space to exist for those receivers to get open in the secondary, someone needs to drag the safeties deep. Yes, DK Metcalf can do that, but Metcalf has evolved as a route runner and a receiver, and a big part of his success as a receiver in recent seasons has come as a result of the mismatches his size and speed create with the ball in his hand in that very same underneath area he so often helps produce for other receivers.
