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The Seattle Seahawks’ season came to a sudden end over the weekend after their wild-card loss to the Los Angeles Rams. While many football questions remain to be answered over the offseason, for wide receiver Tyler Lockett, the most difficult part might be adjusting back to life off the football field.
“The hard part is not only do you lose in a playoff game but, now we have to go back to our homes and – you think about all the stuff that we’ve been through this whole year,” Lockett explained after the game. “Having to be tested every day, having to try to stay away from as many people as we possibly can, being careful with who we fly up here and who we’re around. Now, we literally have to go back to being at home, back into the real world.”
For many around the world, football and other sports, have been a welcome distraction over the last year. But the coronavirus precautions have taken a toll on the Seahawks’ players, who fortunately were able to keep their Reserve/COVID-19 list numbers down to some of the lowest in the league. However, resuming life on the “outside” will be challenging for Lockett and some of his teammates, especially with the future of next season still up in the air.
“It’s going to be hard to adjust but, it’s just going to be something that we’re going to have to figure out,” Lockett continued. “We don’t know if we’re going to have OTA’s. We have to figure out if the NFL is going to pay for us to get tested again so, probably won’t come back until the end of July. That’s a lot. Being at home all the way until the end of July especially during Covid when everything is shut down.
“It’s just one of those things where you kind of have to re-wire your mind and figure out how to adjust again.”
The Seahawks held meetings on Sunday before the players cleared out their lockers and parted ways for the offseason.
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