Doug Baldwin looked up from his seat at his locker.
As he often does when asked just about any question beyond “How ya doin?”, he paused. He often contemplates and formulates a thoughtful response.
It’s refreshing, really. Baldwin is perhaps the most thougthful, insightful athletes I’ve covered in 20 years of sports journalism.
This pause Friday inside team headquarters was after: Has this season, the first one of his eight years in the NFL all with the Seahawks in which he’s dealt with multiple injuries and missed as many as three games, caused him at age 30 to consider the mortality of his football career?