Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback and current 710 ESPN Seattle radio host, Jake Heaps, recently discussed how the team must take full advantage of Russell Wilson’s prime while they still can.
“What that means to me is Russell Wilson is in the prime of his career,” Heaps said. “He’s playing some of his best football right now and this is an opportunity to continue to surround one of the best quarterbacks, one of the best players in the NFL with premier talent and I think they have the opportunity to do that.”
Heaps believes the Seahawks should surround Wilson with as many offensive weapons as possible and that they could use an early pick on a running back or wide receiver.
“So don’t be surprised, Seahawks fans, if you see the Seahawks draft a receiver and a running back in the first four picks,” Heaps said. “If two of those first four (picks) are a running back and receiver, I think there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity (because) one, there’s a need at running back.”
Seattle is already fairly stacked offensively with Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny at running back and Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf at wide receiver. If they can all stay healthy, which is a tall task in the NFL, the Seahawks have the potential to field one of the best offenses in the league in 2020.
“It will be interesting to see what will happen, but they have to start planning for the future,” Heaps said.
The virtual 2020 NFL Draft will start on April 23 and end on April 25.
