Lockett is a brilliant pick

Lockett was 2nd in the nation in punt returning in NCAA. This is why we drafted him, and why its a brilliant pick.

Seahawks had so many drives last year that started way too deep for comfort. If Lockett is a pick to be the next dynamic kick returner/punt returner, well this is simply a brilliant pick and screw those other 3 picks, this guy may provide way bigger impact than we realize.

This will improve our offense tremendously. We had Brian freakin Walters returning punts last year. Any of us watching knew it was an absolute grind for our offense to move the ball. Add in the fact that we would never, ever get any yards on a punt return especially after our defense would play lights out deep in opposing territory. Immediately this guy is going to increase the effectiveness of our offense by starting probably on average 10 yards further up the field, plus giving us a serious home run threat on returns.

Love the pick, he could be a good wide receiver too, but I think we just significantly improved our team just on this one pick alone. Home run in my opinion.

This guy can be our best WR this year. I wanted a Ty and we got the best one.

Agreed. We should have taken him in the 2nd and we probably still could have gotten clark in the 3rd without having to trade any picks.

Minor quibble:
See punt return chart link below. At the bottom of the chart, it explains:
""Note: To qualify, player must have played in 75% of his team's games and have a minimum of 1.2 punt returns per game played."" - http://www.cfbstats.com/2014/leader/nat ... ort01.html

Montgomery, in 2014 had a slightly higher average per punt return of 19.83, (12 returns for 238-yds)
however, he didn't have but 12 returns so didn't meet the rating criteria above. In other words, small sample size. By contrast, Lockett had 21 returns for 402-yds. and a 19.14-yd average. So, IMO, and in the opinion of the cfbstats website, Lockett was the #1 punt returner in FBS this year.
Montgomery: http://www.cfbstats.com/2014/player/674 ... index.html
Lockett: http://www.cfbstats.com/2014/player/327 ... index.html
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PS: LOVE the Lockett and Clark picks, both are going to be absolutely amazing, I feel it in my old bones.

in fairness to Brian Walters, in terms of his job 1 of securing the ball, he was very good in that department on punt returns. Others who attempted returns were more of an adventure.

xgeoff":21tg9dyy said:

Agreed. We should have taken him in the 2nd and we probably still could have gotten clark in the 3rd without having to trade any picks.

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Incorrect

TheWebHead":zyulsg4u said:

in fairness to Brian Walters, in terms of his job 1 of securing the ball, he was very good in that department on punt returns. Others who attempted returns were more of an adventure.

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I would say that he got good at fielding the ball, after Pete told him to fair catch everything. His first few tries were mostly screwed up by him not securing the ball before he started to run with it. Thus, shaky catches and dangerous situations re ball control. But we were better off because of the fumble possibilities on that play.