Seattle Seahawks: Predicting wide receiver depth chart for 2020
By Lee Vowell
How will the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver depth chart pan out in 2020?
The Seattle Seahawks are trying to win games in 2020 by having a great offense. How else to explain that they have spent millions of dollars on free agent acquisitions like Greg Olsen and Carlos Hyde, both presumed backups, but haven’t yet signed a top-end pass rusher. Seattle had cap space to begin the offseason but most of money is now gone.
Quarterback Russell Wilson made it clear this offseason that he wanted more weapons around him and the Seahawks have tried to do that. Seattle’s running back room by week 9 could feature Chris Carson, Carlos Hyde and Rashaad Penny. That is good stuff. Seattle’s tight ends include Will Dissly, Olsen and Jacob Hollister.
But beyond Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalf at receiver, there is a lot of unknown. The Seahawks wide receiver room currently looks like this:
Seth Dawkins
Phillip Dorsett II
Aaron Fuller
Penny Hart
Tyler Lockett
D.K. Metcalf
David Moore
Stephen Sullivan
Freddie Swain
Cody Thompson
John Ursua
That is 11 guys trying to fill five or six spots. If the Seahawks choose to keep six running backs this year as they don’t want to run out of quality backs like they did at the end of 2019, then Seattle might only have five receivers. Two of them are definitely going to be Lockett and Metcalf, but what about the others?
I will give you a prediction of who will make the Seahawks final roster but before I do that here are some storylines that will need to play out for the group to be successful in 2020.