What seemed at the time to be a Christmas curse two years ago has become a life-changing gift for Tyler Lockett.
On Christmas Eve 2016 the Seahawks’ wide receiver broke his leg. Horrified teammates Doug Baldwin and Russell Wilson prayed over him on the field. Lockett spent his Christmas Day that year in a hospital bed in Seattle. His family was with him—not that he could tell. He was in a sleepy fog caused by pain-killing medication. At about the time Santa was coming down chimneys across the country, Lockett was in surgery to fix his broken tibia and fibula.