What You Need to Know:

• Eskridge totaled 10 catches on 20 targets for 64 yards and 1 TD across 10 outings last season.
• He played less than 50% of Seattle’s offensive snaps in 9 of those 10 games.
• He played 70% of the snaps with Tyler Lockett out in Week 15. Eskridge finished that one catch-less on 4 targets.
• He missed minicamp and the first 3 weeks of training camp with a toe injury.
• Then he sustained a concussion in the season opener and missed the next 7 games.
• The Seahawks took Eskridge in the 2nd round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
• Eskridge didn’t break out until he was a 23-year-old, 5th-year senior at Western Michigan.
• The 5’9, 190-pounder clocked a 4.38-second 40-yard dash at his Pro Day.
• The Seahawks traded QB Russell Wilson to Denver in March. He’ll be replaced by some combination of Drew Lock and Geno Smith.
• The 2021 Seahawks ranked 31st in pass attempts and 24th in situation-neutral pass rate. This will again be a run-centric offense in 2022.
• D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett return as Seattle’s top 2 WRs.
• Eskridge will compete with Freddie Swain, Marquise Goodwin and rookie Bo Melton for the #3 WR job.

Draft Sharks Bottom Line:

We didn’t like Eskridge coming into the league, and he did absolutely nothing as a rookie last year to change our opinion.

He has a good chance to win Seattle’s #3 WR job this summer. But even then he’d be tough to get excited about in fantasy lineups behind D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett in a run-leaning offense quarterbacked by Drew Lock or Geno Smith.