3 Seattle Seahawks are poised for breakout seasons in 2022

Will Dissly

Seattle gave Dissly a bunch of money this offseason – up to $24 million over the next three years – to return to the Seahawks. One can assume the plan isn’t for Dissly to stay a glorified offensive lineman and go back to also being the pass receiving threat he was in his first two seasons. The last two Dissly has been lost in the pass game.

Maybe a taller quarterback will help Dissly. I mean no disrespect to Russell Wilson, the best quarterback in franchise history, but he did seem to have issues seeing the field over the middle at times. And over the middle is where tight ends can do a great deal of damage.

Though Dissly’s first two years in the league were shortened by injury, he did average 4.1 targets per game and he caught 75.6 percent of those targets and scored 6 touchdowns. But in the last two years. Dissly’s targets have gone down to 1.8 targets per game. Why? Has Dissly become unable to catch? No.

In 2021, Seattle had obtained tight end Gerald Everett for one year and he was underused. So was Dissly. I blame Wilson for this, not the offense. By the end of his time in Seattle, Wilson created fewer plays out of the chaos of a broken-down play and threw more to his wideout. The offense bogged down several times due to this.

Drew Lock and Geno Smith might not be better QBs than Wilson, but they might be able to run Shane Waldron’s offense better. If so, Dissly will be one of the players that benefit from this.