Die Saalfelds » /www.theseahawksfanshop.com/

Because of the position he plays Shaquill Griffin Color Rush Jersey , his slide during the NFL draft and the team that selected him, DK Metcalf has spent the offseason in the spotlight.As much as he's trying to avoid drawing the same kind of attention during his first training camp with the Seattle Seahawks, the 6-foot-4, 229-pound rookie receiver can't shake it. Fans are already showing up for practices wearing No. 14 jerseys, even though Metcalf hasn't caught a single pass in an NFL game. Coach Pete Carroll even joked that there is a Metcalf jersey hanging in the coaches' locker room."I was a nobody at one point in my life," Metcalf said Monday. "I've just got to keep that same mentality."There's a reason for all the excitement. Metcalf's pre-draft workouts, where he ran a 4.33 40-yard dash, sent the league buzzing. Then his fall in the draft got even more attention. Expected to potentially go in the first round, Metcalf ended up being selected with the 64th pick in the second round after Seattle traded up, hoping to acquire the kind of target it has longed to add to its passing game — big, physical and bruising."He's worthy of it. He's an extraordinary athlete and what a tremendous addition to our club," Carroll said.Metcalf was among the Seattle receivers who spent time in Southern California before the start of training camp working out every day with quarterback Russell Wilson. In fact, Metcalf came in a week earlier than many of the others and was using the fields at UCLA as the sun was rising."He wants to learn. I mean Delano Hill Color Rush Jersey , we were getting up at 5:30, working out at UCLA at 5:45, me and him the week before," Wilson said.The goal of the workouts was for Wilson and Metcalf to accelerate the acclimation process. Wilson already has a feel for what Tyler Lockett, Jaron Brown and David Moore are going to do in certain situations because they've been together at least one season."I think it's important to make sure you spend that time with certain guys and try to build those one-on-one relationships," Wilson said. "DK, being the guy that he is and the position he got drafted in, there's a lot of high expectations on him and letting him know that hey, we are here to do everything we can to make you the best player you could possibly be. The great thing is he makes it easy on us because he wants to put the work in."Developing a target to complement Lockett is going to be critical for the Seahawks. For most of this decade, Doug Baldwin was the player that Wilson could turn to in critical situations. But Baldwin is unlikely to play again, so training camp and the preseason will be an important time to start finding another option.Metcalf would seem to be the leading option, but he's not limiting himself to just catching passes. He has also been among the players working on punt returns."It's my first time doing it. Pray for me," Metcalf said with a laugh. "I like it back there." Former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman made headlines in the lead up to the first matchup between the Hawks and his new team Earl Thomas Color Rush Jersey , the San Francisco 49ers, when he referred to Seattle as a middle of the road team. Frank Clark had a beautiful response to the middle of the road remark, but Sherman’s comment brings attention to the fact that the Seahawks 2018 has been both top heavy and bottom heavy, without a lot in between. If the NFL draft were to scheduled based on the records as they stand through the first 14 weeks of the season, the Seahawks schedule would include:five games against the teams drafting 1-2-3 (San Francisco 49ers twice, Arizona Cardinals twice and the Oakland Raiders), five games against the teams drafting 28-31 (Los Angeles Rams twice, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers and Chicago Bears) andjust six games against teams drafting 4-27 (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers and Minnesota Vikings). I’m more than well aware that the postseason will establish the draft order for the teams that make the playoffs J.R. Sweezy Color Rush Jersey , and I know that the Chargers and Chiefs played their Week 15 game Thursday, but the postseason isn’t here and the KC-LA game didn’t change the top five teams in the league. Point is, fans expected the Seahawks to be somewhere in the middle of the pack, but we have relatively little information about exactly where they stand in the middle of that pack. It certainly helps that they’ve beaten five of the six teams that fall into that middle range, so they would seem to be a team that should be somewhere towards the top end of that middle of the pack. However, with the Vikings threatening to drop out of the playoff picture with three teams just a half a game behind them, it is possible that the Seahawks could end the season with a record of 1-5 against playoff teams and 9-1 against non-playoff teams. For that to happen the Vikings would have to to be pass by either the Philadelphia Eagles or Washington Redskins taking over the final NFC Playoff spot. Further, the Hawks would have to drop the Week 16 game against the Chiefs, a game that all of a sudden has a whole lot of meaning for K.C. and the Patrick Mahomes Band. I’m not saying that is what will happen, just that it’s a very real and very interesting possibility.And an interesting possibility that I’d love to see that happen because I know that the talking heads in the media would jump all over those records and flaunt them all week int the build up to the game. Because once the talking heads figured those numbers out, they’d complain endlessly about how the Seahawks only made the playoffs because of a weak schedule.That is something I absolutely want to have happen, because we all know what happens when the national media starts complaining about how the Hawks don’t deserve the playoff spot they’re occupying.