Seattle Seahawks Signed $90 Million Deal With Legendary Buff Laviska Shenault Star Player Due To…
According to the NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, former Colorado receiver Laviska Shenault has agreed to a deal with the Seattle Seahawks.
A second-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2020, Shenault had 1,351 yards of offense on 121 receptions and 29 rushing attempts during his first two seasons of NFL play. He was traded to the Carolina Panthers, where he played the previous two seasons. His opportunities were more limited with the Panthers. Shenault had just 21 catches for 120 yards and one score in 2022 and 2023. He also returned nine kickoffs for 249 yards while in the Carolina organization.
Shenault was a do-it-all type of player during his three seasons with the Buffaloes. He hauled in 149 passes, and was often utilized behind center in the Wildcat formation during short yardage situations.
Shenault scored a touchdown rushing and receiving in the same game five times in his career, becoming the only CU player to have two of each in the same contest.
Shenault was garnering some Heisman chatter early during the 2018 season when the Buffs were 5-0, before he suffered a toe injury and a Buffs losing streak occurred.
Despite forgoing his senior year to enter the NFL Draft, Shenault still finished his CU career ranked eighth in program history in receptions. He was selected with the 42nd overall pick by Jacksonville in 2020.
Blue chip safety Faheem Delane made alterations to his official visit schedule, and there is some structure of order of schools with his recruitment.
Delane was at Ohio State Saturday and he was at LSU the weekend prior. Official visits are set to both places, as are officials to Oregon and Maryland as well as an unofficial visit to Colorado.
The deadline to enter the college basketball transfer portal is less than four weeks away. There are 1,388 players in the transfer portal as of Thursday, and that number will undoubtedly grow. After Thursday’s NIT Championship game between Indiana State and Seton Hall, the four teams in the Final Four (NC State, UConn, Purdue and Alabama) will be the lone teams alive.
Everyone else is fully locked in on the transfer portal.
“When the season is over, it gets amped up even more,” Illinois coach Brad Underwood said. “I mean, there’s no downtime. It is crank it up. Our staff is working hard at that. We’re paying attention daily to what’s going on in the portal, and if you’re not, you’re probably falling behind.”
The team needs when the portal opened on March 18 and the team needs now in early April have shifted due to dozens of commitments and some key stay-or-go decisions that have been made.
Thursday kickstarts a week-long dead period where both campus visits and in-person recruiting is not allowed until April 11. Numerous transfers have visits scheduled for after the dead period ends.
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Brock’s Seahawks Draft Profile: A difference-making guard…
As things currently stand for the Seattle Seahawks heading into the 2024 NFL Draft, they don’t have clear starters at either guard spot. That could change in a few weeks, and Brock Huard certainly hopes that’s the case.
Huard: ‘It is now or never’ for new Seattle Seahawks WR
“The position that is becoming the most difficult for (general manager) John Schneider and the Seahawks to put a valuation on either financially or in this draft is the interior of the offensive line. And there is no question that right now it is still the biggest need on this team,” Huard said.
That leads to Huard’s latest Seahawks draft profile, which he shared during Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk. The player is one of Huard’s favorite guard prospects in this year’s class.
Huard, through his work as a college football analyst for FOX Sports, gets to see and interact with many of the top college players and teams in the country on a weekly basis. That played a big part in his infatuation with Kansas State guard Cooper Beebe.
“He is a big old man who plays on the interior,” Huard said. “He’s 6 foot 3, he’s 322 pounds. He is a guard. He played left tackle (in 2021) and was an all-conference left tackle, which tells you a little something about his feet and his football acumen. In fact, he was a three-time All-Big 12 performer, and he was a two-time Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year … Cooper back-to-back years was the best road-grading, difference-making offensive lineman in that conference. That puts him in pretty rare air. The other two guys that were two-time winners of that award? They’ve been pretty darn good pros – Orlando Brown and Creed Humphrey … Cooper is just a stud. He falls into this list of many of these guys, for me, that are just tremendous football players.”
Beebe was a big-time starter for Kansas State, and when it came to pass protection, he rarely lost those matchups.
“The dude in his three-plus years as a starter – again (he started initially) at left tackle, but as a guard because he’s got 31-inch arms, so there’s no question he’s a guard at the NFL level – (he had) 1,488 career pass blocking snaps … and he gave up five sacks. He gave up four of those as a freshman, and over the final three years of his career, he gave up one sack,” Huard said..” Again, sometimes those can be a little jaded or a little biased when it comes (to stats) from their own team, but I watched him four or five or six times in person, the dude’s a great player. He’s going to be a very, very good starting guard in this league.”