4 high-risk free agents the Seahawks should consider in 2022 offseason

Evan Engram

Will Dissly and Gerald Everett are both free agents for Seattle and anything is possible with them. Everett is a good and athletic receiver and some team might outbid Seattle for his services beginning in 2022. Dissly is a good fit in Seattle but he was also underused as a receiver and might choose to go elsewhere for a chance to be more involved in an offense. Evan Engram is potentially a good enough receiver to easily replace Dissly or Everett, however.

Engram hasn’t really been able to live up to his 2017 first-round draft status while a part of the New York Giants. New York’s offense hasn’t been good for some time so a talented receiver at tight end is going to not be put in the right positions to succeed. Twice in his five-year career, Engram has had at least 109 targets but the Giants didn’t know how to get the most impact from those targets.

There is a bit of a rap against Engram that he gets injured too much. This was true in 2018 and 2019 when Engram missed a combined 13 games but in the last two years, he has missed only two.

The risk with Engram is not overpaying him because he can be such a good receiver. Engram doesn’t need to come in and be a top-two receiver for Seattle as the Seahawks have Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalf. But Engram made $6 million in 2021 and Seattle shouldn’t offer that much. But Engram would certainly help take the focus off Metcalf and Lockett.