Nobody in their right mind is picking this team to win the Super Bowl. However, the disrespect for the 2022 Seattle Seahawks is officially out of control, both within the league itself and in the media. This admittedly isn’t a playoff team on paper, but most folks are overlooking and underrating much of the team’s top end talent at both wide receiver and safety.
For starters, only Quandre Diggs made the annual NFL Top 100 list for Seattle this year, an egregious snub for both Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf. Now there’s a fresh round of doubt for fans to chew on.
Specifically, Seattle only had one player make ESPN’s new ranking of the top 100 players in the league and none in the top 50.
Metcalf came in at No. 51 on their list:
“The drop off from Russell Wilson to whomever replaces him may not hurt DK Metcalf as much as you think. In the three games Geno Smith started last season, Metcalf outproduced his season-long averages in catches, yards and touchdowns. And whether he is catching passes from Smith and/or Drew Lock in 2022, Metcalf won’t be bothered by the foot injury he played through last season. — Brady Henderson”
At a bare minimum Lockett and Diggs should be included in all of these top-100 rankings, to say nothing of Metcalf easily being a top-50 talent.
