Seahawks offseason assessment: Wide Receivers

For the first time in the last few seasons, the Seattle Seahawks don’t desperately need to upgrade the wide receiver position.

The Seattle Seahawks have needs all over their roster, but wide receiver isn’t one of them. After years of receiver being a weakness, it have finally become one of the strongest positions on the roster.

This is the third in our position by position breakdown of the current roster. David kicked things off yesterday by looking at the cornerbacks, and yesterday we looked into the offensive line.

Rostered players

Free Agents

Analysis

This is one of the most set and stable positions on the roster at the moment. It is also one of the best on the offensive side of the ball. Wide receiver isn’t the weakness that it was just a couple of seasons ago.

All but one of the players who contributed in 2015 is set to return. The Seahawks will also get Paul Richardson back after he missed all but one game last season because of injuries.

If the Seahawks can re-sign Jermaine Kearse, that will make them six-deep with NFL caliber talent. The Seahawks will need to add depth for training camp, but that is much easier to do than adding starters like they had to do the last couple of seasons.

Getting Kearse back shouldn’t be too difficult either. Over the Cap estimates Kearse’s new contract at three years $9-10.5 million, which is reasonable for his production. Kearse has also indicated that he wants to return and will give the Seahawks a discount to do so.

This is a much different situation than the team found itself in in recent offseasons. Two years ago they needed to use their second round pick on Richardson. Last year, they gave up four draft picks to move up and select Tyler Lockette.

This season the Seahawks have the luxury of waiting and using a late round pick on receiver. If they can get Kearse back, we may even see them skip the position completely and just fill in with undrafted free agents.