Tyler Lockett Should "Lead the Charge" to Seahawks Receiver

After the Seahawks finished their Tuesday training, their eighth team event, Tyler Lockett remained on the field to work with rookie receiver DK Metcalf on the release of the second-round pick in the line of scrimmage.

It was a brief moment that helps illustrate how things might be different for Lockett in his fifth season with the Seahawks. It's not that Lockett did not want to help his fellow receivers in recent years, but before this year Doug Baldwin would probably be the one to give advice to younger recipients. However, with Baldwin who is no longer in the team and with the Seahawks with a very young group besides Baldwin and Jaron Brown, Lockett has already begun showing that he will play a different role in the world. Team this season. In the past, even if he had already demonstrated last year that he could be the first receiver of the team in terms of production.

"He feels it, I'm sure, just by the way he expresses it," said Seahawks coach Pete Carroll earlier in the OTAs. "His background, his experience, his success, he is naturally in this position at the moment. I have already seen a number of cases where it is obvious that he gets it. You develop it a little, and it does it. "

But as Carroll and Lockett have both noted, Lockett assuming a larger leadership role does not mean that Lockett is trying to replace Doug Baldwin.

"I do not think we'll replace Doug," Carroll said. "Doug was Doug, and we will never replace him."

Instead, Lockett, who led the Seahawks with 57 catches for 965 yards and 10 touchdowns, will use one of the most important lessons he has learned from Baldwin and will apply to his leadership. .

"The biggest thing I've learned about Doug, is that you have to be yourself," Lockett said. "I must be able to understand who I am as a leader and what I bring to the team as a leader. The things that he brought, I could learn from that and I could see that. But he also taught me to be myself, because if I can not be myself, not everyone will be able to accept the message I'm trying to give them. I must therefore be able to speak with a willing heart. "