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Projecting Seahawks 2024 starting lineup for Week 1 after free agency

Let’s review the changes to the starting lineup.

The Seattle Seahawks have made some major shakeups to their roster over the last six weeks or so. This is when we’ve really felt the Pete Carroll era ending and the begining of a new chapter for the organization.

Let’s review the changes to the starting lineup.

Offense

On this side of the ball things are much the same as when the 2023 season ended, with the exception of the offensive line. At left tackle and right tackle Charles Cross and Abe Lucas are still penned in, respectively. However, the rest of the line is in the middle of a total makeover. For now there are no true left guards on the roster and only a couple of unproven options at center and right guard. We did our best to fill in those spots while the work to build out the roster is still ongoing.

Defense

It’s a different story on defense, where a ton of changes have taken place on the back end. At safety Quandre Diggs and Jamal Adams are out, and Julian Love and Rayshawn Jenkins will replace them – K’Von Wallace can fill in as the third safety if that’s something head coach Mike Macdonald wants to continue. Linebacker has been totally turned over as well, with Bobby Wagner and Jordyn Brooks getting replaced by Tyrel Dodson and Jerome Baker in free agency.

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Special teams

With DeeJay Dallas out of the picture the Seahawks needed somebody to step up and take over the kickoff and punt returner roles. For now, we can assume Laviska Shenault and Dee Eskridge will both be involved in the new kickoff rules, which should see teams employing two KRs at a time. At punt returner, our best guess was Cody White – who’s expendable and has some experience doing it in college.

Here are our full projections for the starting lineup after free agency.

Updated Seahawks WR depth chart after Laviska Shenault signing

The Seahawks have added to what was already the best wide receiver room in professional football.

The Seahawks have added to what was already the best wide receiver room in professional football. On Tuesday Seattle announced the signing of former Jaguars and Panthers receiver/kickoff returner Laviska Shenault Jr., bringing in another intriguing and versatile weapon for Ryan Grubb to employ in his first year as offensive coordinator.

Right now it’s tough to tell exactly what head coach Mike Macdonald has in mind for Year 1, but let’s see if we can guess what the team’s wide receiver depth chart looks like after adding Shenault.

  • DK Metcalf
  • Jaxon Smith-Njigba
  • Tyler Lockett
  • Jake Bobo
  • Leviska Shenault
  • Dareke Young
  • Dee Eskridge
  • Cody White
  • Easop Winston Jr.

Shenault is undoubtedly a better athlete than Bobo, but he’s also more likely to make an impact on special teams, where the Seahawks have a dearth of options at kick returner. With DeeJay Dallas gone the only other kickoff returner from last season still on the team is Eskridge, who is far from a sure thing for obvious reasons.

Unless one of them gets injured, we expect the only receivers to see significant targets as Metcalf, Lockett, JSN and Bobo.

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Projecting Seahawks starters for Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season

Geno Smith will be starting Week 1. Let’s see if we can predict who else will be joining him.

Geno Smith is still the guy for the Seahawks at the quarterback position – at least for the 2024 season. After restructuring his contract and likely shopping him around at the Scouting Combine, the team has reportedly told Smith that he will be on the roster this year and won’t be traded.

That news won’t stop Seattle from targeting a quarterback in the draft, but we now know that Smith will be starting Week 1 over any rookie they bring in or Drew Lock. Let’s see if we can predict who else will be joining him in the Seahawks’ starting lineup come September.

In this scenario, we are expecting a cautious approach from Seattle’s front office in free agency. For starters, our projection has Leonard Williams moving on to another team after he hits the market when the new league year begins. To replace him, the team uses one of their early draft picks on an enormous interior defensive line prospect from Texas.

We’re also assuming that the Seahawks will pass on Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and focus on building up their offensive line in the draft – towards that end we have two new rookies projected to start at the guard positions. Let’s get to the full list.

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DK Metcalf: Watch Seahawks receiver’s highlights from 2023 season

Watch: DK Metcalf’s 2023 highlights

The Seattle Seahawks have a tantalizing corps of offensive talent on their roster. It is why the Seahawks were a top destination for coaching candidates, and why they were able to land the best coordinator in this cycle in Mike Macdonald. Among the top contributors is wide receiver DK Metcalf.

Metcalf has continued to establish himself as one of the better receivers in the NFL, and he did so again in 2023. For a second-straight season (and third time in five years) Metcalf recorded over 1,000 yards receiving.

His efforts during the 2023 campaign gave him yet another Pro Bowl season. Below are the highlights from Metcalf’s dominant year.

I believe I speak for everyone when I say I am excited to see what Metcalf can do under offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb. Easily Grubb’s biggest task for this offense is to find consistency for an incredibly talented offense that severely lacked any semblance of it in 2023.

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Seahawks updated roster and depth chart going into 2024 free agency

Here is the team’s full up to date roster as we approach the new league year and free agency beginning in two weeks.

The Seahawks are entering a new month. March may see a ton of roster turnover in Seattle, depending on exactly just how much general manager John Schneider wants to tweak his team heading into their first year under new head coach Mike Macdonald.

Here is the team’s updated roster and depth chart as we approach the new league year and free agency beginning in two weeks. Players whose names are highlighted in green are about to become unrestricted free agents. Players with their names in orange will become restricted free agents and players in red are exclusive rights free agents.

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Every NFL team’s receiving leader from the 2023 regular season

Each team’s leader in receiving yards from 2023

Look, we know the Carolina Panthers had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year—particularly on offense. But fair is fair, and we already gave you passing and rushing leaders.

So, let’s finish it out and run through each team’s leader in receiving yards from the 2023 regular season.

Look: Seattle Seahawks playing at the 2024 Pro Bowl Games

Here are some photos of Seahawks competing throughout the weekend in Orlndo.

The Seattle Seahawks initially had three players selected to the Pro Bowl this year: linebacker Bobby Wagner, safety Julian Love and cornerback Devon Witherspoon. Eventually, three of their teammates joined them on the NFC squad as injury replacements, inlcuding quarterback Geno Smith, wide receiver DK Metcalf and special teamer Nick Bellore.

Here are some photos of Seahawks competing throughout the weekend in Orlndo.

Three more Seahawks going to Pro Bowl this year as injury replacements

Now we can add three more names to the group Seattle is sending to the Pro Bowl games in Orlando this weekend.

The Seahawks had a whole bunch of alternates listed when they named their three official Pro Bowlers for the 2023 season. That included rookie cornerback Devon Witherspoon, first-time Pro Bowl safety Julian Love and nine-time linebacker Bobby Wagner. Now we can add three more names to the group Seattle is sending to the Pro Bowl games in Orlando this weekend.

The team just announced that starting quarterback Geno Smith, star wide receiver DK Metcalf and special teamer Nick Bellore have also been invited to the games. They will be serving as injury replacements for Rams quarterback Matt Stafford, Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans and Lions special teams ace Jalen Reeves-Maybin.

For Smith this will be his second Pro Bowl team – the first was last year coinciding with his Comeback Player of the Year campaign. Metcalf will be making his second Pro Bowl appearance and Bellore his second, as well.

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