Five great former Seahawks the team could use in 2018

Two awesome Seahawks for the offense

3. Steve Largent, wide receiver. He averaged 16.0 yards per catch over 14 seasons, all of them with the Seahawks. I’m sensing a theme here. Largent didn’t have great size at 5-11 and 187 pounds. He didn’t have blistering speed, either, turning a not-so-blistering 4.65 in the 40. So how exactly did he catch 819 passes for 100 touchdowns? He ran perfect routes and caught everything that came his way. He made the Pro Bowl seven times, and was named a first team All Pro in  1985. Despite that, I think Pete should go back to 1979 for Largent. He caught 66 passes for 1,237 yards and nine touchdowns that year.

By the way, not knocking Jim Zorn, but he was Largent’s quarterback for nine of those 14 seasons. Zorn only managed 20 touchdowns in a season once. How many times would Largent have found the end zone if Dan Fouts or Joe Montana had been behind center? Largent is an all time great, and he’d look pretty sweet opposite Doug Baldwin, wouldn’t he?

He was Beastmode before Beastmode was cool

2. Shaun Alexander, running back. When I wrote Pete couldn’t go get Lynch, I never said he couldn’t go after a monster back. It was a tough call between Alexander and Curt Warner, but I went with the younger man because he’s 20 pounds heavier, and that helps in the league these days. Both were excellent receivers out of the backfield, but Alexander was even more of a workhorse than Warner.

He had three straight seasons with over 320 carries, topped by his phenomenal 2005 campaign. Alexander ran the ball 370 times – no, that’s not a typo – for 1,880 yards and 27 touchdowns. I’d ask Pete to spread the load, as the Seahawks do have some pretty solid backs this year. As we’ve seen, you can never have too many running backs. At least not in Seattle.