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The Seattle Seahawks have some interest in former Pittsburgh Steelers wideout Chase Claypool.
PITTSBURGH — Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool spent the day in Seattle visiting the Seahawks, according to KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson.
Claypool, 25, hasn’t had much free agent interest this offseason after leaving the Miami Dolphins once his contract expired. The former second-round pick has struggled since leaving Pittsburgh, playing just 12 games last season, catching eight passes for 77 yards and a touchdown.
Claypool’s last of attention sparked some interest from the Canadian Football League. The Saskatchewan Roughriders added him to their exclusive negotiation list, allowing him to sign to the team if he does leave the NFL. That ship is still very much here, but could be sailing with interest from Seattle.
Claypool played three seasons in Pittsburgh before being traded for a second-round pick to the Chicago Bears. During his time in Pittsburgh, he caught 153 passes for 2,044 yards and 12 touchdowns. He’s caught just one touchdown pass since leaving. After 10 games in Chicago, the Bears traded him to the Dolphins, where he played nine games and had 26 receiving yards.
The Seattle Seahawks reportedly met with former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Chase Claypool on Tuesday. Claypool was a second-round pick out of Notre Dame back in 2020, and it’s safe to say his career is on course to peak in his rookie season.
Claypool was most recently with the Miami Dolphins, who acquired him in a trade with the Chicago Bears. After two seasons with the Steelers, capped off by this remarkable lack of awareness in a two-minute drill, Pittsburgh traded him to the Bears and somehow got a second-round pick in return. Claypool’s Bears career ended with just 18 catches, 191 yards, 2 touchdowns, and at least one apology for effort.
The best season of Claypool’s career was in 2020, when he caught 62 passes for 873 yards and 11 touchdowns (2 rushing). It’s been a rapid decline in performance since then, to the point where teams in his native Canada were looking at signing him.
Claypool doesn’t return kicks or punts, so he surely isn’t being looked at as a possible returner for Seattle. The only thing Claypool has in his favor is the fact that he’s still only 25 years old. Nothing else would make a potential signing appealing given his last few seasons.
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The New Seahawks By The Numbers…
Do you like numbers? I hope you do, because this story about the numbers that the newest Seattle Seahawks will soon be wearing on the field.
What, were you expecting something else? Some fancy new metric? We’ll have time for that at other points in the offseason. Here’s a look at the uniform numbers for the 11 free agent and trade additions to the Seahawks roster.
- LB Tyrel Dodson: No. 0 (previously worn by Devin Bush)
- S Rayshawn Jenkins: No. 2 (previously worn by Drew Lock)
- QB Sam Howell: No. 6 (previously worn by Quandre Diggs)
- LB Jerome Baker: No. 17 (previously worn by Matt Landers)
- S K’Von Wallace: No. 24 (previously worn by Isaiah Dunn)
- C Nick Harris: No. 56 (previously worn by Jordyn Brooks)
- G Tremayne Anchrum Jr: No. 73 (previously worn by Roderick Perry III)
- T George Fant: No. 74 (previously worn by Jake Curhan)
- WR Laviska Shenault Jr: No. 81 (previously worn by Tyjon Lindsey)
- TE Pharaoh Brown: No. 86 (previously worn by Easop Winston Jr)
- DT Johnathan Hankins: No. 97 (previously worn by Mario Edwards Jr)
The headline names here are Jenkins, Howell, and Harris. Howell has Quandre Diggs’ old number, Jenkins has flipped No. 2 from backup QB to starting safety, and former starting linebacker Jordyn Brooks’ No. 56 belongs to (reserve?) center Nick Harris.
Easop Winston Jr is still on the roster and has opted to switch from No. 86 to No. 13, a number last worn by Josh Jones.
It’s still possible for these numbers to change prior to the start of the regular season, but keep this in mind for now!
Why Bo Nix is like ex-Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson
What do University of Oregon quarterback Bo Nix and ex-Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson have in common?
Is this the reason NFL Draft stock for Penix is all over the place?
Well, neither is thought of very fondly by most sports fans in the greater Seattle area. But it’s far more than just that, according to former NFL quarterback and Oregon alum Joey Harrington. He told Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy on Monday that Wilson is the QB he sees Nix most closely resembling.
“It’s really interesting. People have asked me who he reminds me of professionally and the name I think of a lot is Russell Wilson,” Harrington said. “(Nix is) a good athlete, very smart, great worker, not a huge, physical specimen, but God does he throw a great deep ball down the field right there. He is a tremendous deep-ball passer.”
Nix was in the news this weekend because he reportedly visited with the Seahawks ahead of the 2024 NFL Draft, which begins on April 25, according to NFL insider Aaron Wilson of KPRC2 in Houston.
The 6-foot-2, 214-pound prospect from Pinson, Ala., is thought to be among the second tier of quarterbacks in the upcoming draft. The fifth-year senior completed an efficient 77.4% of his passes for 4,508 yards, 45 TDs and just three interceptions last season. Nix also showed his capabilities as a dual-threat with 20 rushing TDs over the past two seasons at Oregon. He was named to the All-Pac-12 first team and Associated Press All-America third team in 2023.
Nix has received some criticism in how he achieved some of his passing numbers, though, with critics pointing out many of Nix’s passing yards came from his receivers making plays after catching short throws. Harrington pushes back on that.
“I think people generalized him as a guy who throws bubble screens, that his numbers came from dink-and-dunk kind of passes,” Harrington said. “He can make every throw on the field, and actually he pushed the ball down the field quite a bit. Yeah, he was incredibly accurate in the short-range stuff, but he throws the mid-range ball very well.”
One of the areas of Nix’s game that impressed Harrington most was his overall drive to get better. Nix has taken the criticism of his game and shown the ability to improve those aspects.
“He’s a football junkie,” Harrington said. “… Any time he has an opportunity to play, to practice, to throw, to watch, to do, he’s in there. I think one of the knocks on Bo last year, and I say last year being his junior year, was that he wasn’t a great pocket passer. He could get out and move and make things happen on the run, but people wanted to see him become a pocket passer. So what did he do? He completely stayed inside the pocket this year and broke the (FBS) single-season completion percentage record.”