Should Seahawks Try and Sign Another Veteran Receiver?

Flipping through the latest articles around the web today, I found this interesting piece on the next offseason moves for the Seattle Seahawks. Except it was interesting for all the wrong reasons and made very little sense to me.

The piece takes a serious turn for the worst when the writer suggests that one of the main priorities for Seattle now is to add depth throughout the roster. Ok, that’s fine, but the main suggestion is adding yet another veteran receiver to the core that exists now. Like most of you would do immediately, the word “why(!?)” came spilling out of my mouth in such a fashion that my girlfriend had no idea what I had just asked her or the reason I was so adamant about it.

“Obviously”, I thought to myself, “there was no homework done here and I should stop reading”, but then the writer gave an interesting option; Joshua Cribbs.

Hmmm.

It really was a nice thought as a fan last week, given what Cribbs could potentially add, given that Percy Harvin and Sidney Rice are both so banged up all the time. But in the end, Cribbs would be yet another aging health risk the Seahawks would have to manage. I’m sure there was discussion on different options such as Cribbs before the draft began, but now that the Hawks have added both Paul Richardson and Kevin Norwood, there is absolutely no need to add any receivers to this lineup, unless his name is Jermichael Finley after he clears medical.

• Percy Harvin
• Doug Baldwin
• Sidney Rice
• Jermaine Kearse
• Ricardo Lockette
• Paul Richardson
• Kevin Norwood
• Chris Matthews

There is one last point that this brings up though and it is truly an interesting one; not everybody is as high on the Seahawks’ receivers as you might think. To some that list of names is still underwhelming and even after the Super Bowl performance they have very little respect for what Baldwin, Kearse and Lockette bring to the table, which is very tough for me to fathom. It’s even tougher to fathom any veteran that the Seahawks could afford coming in and making the roster with that group on board in my opinion. I guess it’s back to “prove-em-wrong” time for Seattle’s WR corps.