In the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on Seattle Seahawks fans, Doug Baldwin retired in 2019, and then never left. It’s scandalous, really. Because when Baldwin stepped away, Tyler Lockett took over exactly where his teammate left off. And I do mean exactly. With a little too much precision, collecting more than a couple crazy coincidences.
It’s eerie. Uncanny. Preposterous, is how Stephen A. Smith would describe the statistical phenomenon that binds Doug and Ty. We up here in the Northwesternerest corner have long known they were both capable of WR1 production, even as the rest of the country ignored their elite efficiency in favor of splashy fantasy numbers from the second-tier pass-catcher du jour.