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Brady Henderson
The Seattle Seahawks released the veteran open receiver Tyler Locktt, ending the 10 -year race in Seattle of the second more prolific recipient in the history of the franchise.
Lockett published Wednesday in X: “I really enjoyed being in Seattle! I met so many great people and captured so many good memories!
I really enjoyed being in Seattle! I met many great people and captured so many great memories! The 12 really make this place significant! Although, my time in Seahawks may have followed its course, I am grateful for everything! God gets all glory forever! pic.twitter.com/cywzbdhovr
– Tyler Lockett (@tdlockett12) March 5, 2025
It was expected that Lockett, 32 and leaves his least productive season since 2017, was released unless the two parties could accept another reduced contract as they did last March. But there was no possibility that he would return for an eleventh season in Seattle in his previous agreement, which was scheduled to pay him $ 17 million while counting $ 30,895 million against the limit, strong figures for someone who planned to be the third receiver of the team behind DK Metcalf and Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Metcalf, however, requested an exchange on Wednesday, a source told Adam Schefter of ESPN, questioning the future of the stars receiver in Seattle.
By launch Lockett, Seattle saves $ 17 million in cash and space on the limit, but will assume $ 13,895 million in dead money. The Seahawks cleared another $ 27 million in space at the limit by cutting another four players on Tuesday: the external supporter Dre’mont Jones, the defensive Tackle Roy Robertson-Harris, the Rayshawn Jenkins security and the Tackle Swing George Fant.
They waited another day to free Lockett, thus allowing an independent shipment according to one of the best players in the history of the franchise.
General manager John Schneider told the journalists of the Combine Scouting last week that he would meet with Lockett agent in Indianapolis to discuss the future of the receiver, calling him “one of my favorite players of all time.”
Lockett had publicly expressed his gratitude for Schneider bringing back the low season, when his future in Seattle was not clear after his slight recession in the production and expulsion of Pete Carroll as a chief coach. As part of a restructured contract, the two parties agreed before free agency, Lockett made a salary cut of $ 4 million.
Then he took a rear seat in Seattle’s resources body, with Smith-Njigba exploding in his second season. Lockett started the strong year, which put him on the way to replicate his 894-yard and five touchdown season of 2023. But with Smith-Njigba, becoming the focal point of Seattle’s air game in the second half, Lockett ended 600 yards receivers and two scores, their lower totals in each statistic since 2017. 2018.
Lockett, who has had an advantage in his career after the play by practicing real estate as a licensed agent in Washington and Texas, has said he intends to play in 2025. At the end of last season, he retreated the notion that his skills have decreased significantly.
“I think that the whole season has been a sacrifice, and it is a sacrifice for the improvement of the team, it is a sacrifice for the improvement of the other players, it is a sacrifice for many different things,” he said. “I stinks for me as a player when you listen to people to say:” Oh, he is too old “or” is washed “or” is not the same type of player. “I promise you, if you are going to see the movie, that is not the case.”
But Lockett knew after the end of the Seattle season in January that he could have played his last game with the team, saying: “Maybe this is not the end, maybe it is the end. But I will always be a Seahawk from beginning to end.”
Seattle recruited Lockett in the third round of the state of Kansas in 2015. He had an immediate impact as a kick back, doing the Pro Bowl and being named the first All-Pro team as a rookie. His breakdown as a receiver came in 2018 with 965 yards and 10 touchdowns. He exceeded 1,000 yards in each of the next four seasons, and his 45 TouchDowns during that five -year period occupied the fourth place among wide receptors.
Lockett, who has lost only two games due to an injury for his career and another with COVID-19, occupies the second place in the history of the franchise only to the member of the Hall of Fame Steve Largent in catches (661), receiving yards (8,594) and receiving Touchdowns (61). In December, he became three times winner of the Steve Largent Annual Award of the team, voted by players in recognition of excellence in the field and off the field.