MLOhawks":vgyntnjk said:
Why would we draft Ertz when we already have Zach Miller? That makes no sense to me.
Because the team runs a lot of 2TE sets and would almost certainly like to run more. There's a reason the Seahawks brought in Jacob Tamme and Visanthe Shiancoe for a free agent meeting last year, then traded for Kellen Winslow and expressed interest in Fred Davis before he was franchised. Darrell Bevell was all over Coby Fleener at his pro-day last year. They clearly wanted to add to this position.
The concept of two dynamic TE's is not foreign to the league. New England do it with great success. Stanford use their two TE's as primary receivers, it's a great way to run PA and play run heavy. What's more Ertz played a lot of snaps out wide or in the slot. He's much more athletic than Miller - as evidenced by the downfield bomb he collected in the Rose Bowl, where he ran a deep route and got in behind two defensive backs.
It's not a crazy concept. And if people truly believe Seattle are in a position to go BPA... well there's also that too.
