Seahawks: a far too early depth chart for skill positions

Seahawks need new wide receivers to break out

As for wide receivers, Lee Vowell covered them in great depth as well. I concur with his top three choices. Tyler Lockett is a starting receiver on any team. DK Metcalf showed an awful lot in minicamp. As long as no one expects the second coming of Megatron in his first season, he’ll be more than fine. Gary Jennings will certainly be in the top three receivers. Compare his college stats to those of Angry Doug himself. I’m not saying he’s the next Doug Baldwin – no one will be – but he certainly has the tools and past production of an NFL starter. I expect that Jennings will be seen in three-receiver sets most often, with Lockett often moving to the slot.

Among the backups, I agree that Jaron Brown was underused last season. It seems he deserved far more than 19 chances at the ball. Then again, in six seasons he’s been targeted more than 32 times just once. In his last season in Arizona, he caught less than 45% of his targets. I can see he may need to earn some trust. David Moore looked like the next great feel-good story, then hit a roadblock in production. In the final four games last year, he caught just four of sixteen targets. Even more than Brown, he needs to prove that he’s reliable.

Draft surprise John Ursua out of Hawaii will push both of them for a roster spot. The Seahawks moved so late to get him, many people had already wrapped their coverage of Seattle’s draft. Including me. So clearly, Pete Carroll wanted to be sure he got him rather than risk losing him in the vast pool of the undrafted.