The Seattle Seahawks’ wide receiver room will look quite different this fall.

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Gone is the imposing 6-foot-4, 229-pound DK Metcalf, who averaged over 1,000 yards per season over his six years in Seattle. Also gone is 32-year-old veteran Tyler Lockett, the second-leading receiver in franchise history.

Their replacements are headlined by 32-year-old former Los Angeles Rams star Cooper Kupp, who had a historic 1,947-yard campaign in 2021 but has since missed 18 games due to various injuries over the past three seasons. Also new to the fold are veteran speedster Marquez Valdes-Scantling, rookie fifth-round draft pick Tory Horton and rookie seventh-rounder Ricky White III.

The one big constant is third-year pro Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who is coming off a breakout 1,130-yard season. But it remains to be seen if Smith-Njigba can replicate his success without Metcalf, whose massive frame and elite athleticism drew considerable attention from opposing defenses.

Do the Seahawks have enough at wide receiver in the post-Metcalf/Lockett era? The Athletic’s Derrik Klassen, co-host of The Athletic Football Show, was asked that question Friday during an appearance on Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy.

“I think they have a lot of guys who are useful,” Klassen said. “I think we’re never going to get the best out of Cooper Kupp again, but I do think that he can still be a useful player, and he still was last year. Obviously MVS is kind of just a role player as a stretch-down-the-field guy playing outside the numbers. He can kind of eat a lot of the dirty work down-the-field targets, which I think is useful.

“And then I do think that Jaxon Smith-Njigba is, not like a true No. 1 receiver in the way that we think of A.J. Brown and Justin Jefferson and players like that, but I do think that he can eat over 110 targets pretty consistently and be a useful player. So I think they have a lot of options. I just struggle to see a top-15 receiver that can take over a lot of games the way that you see from other top offenses.”

Listen to the full conversation with The Athletic’s Derrik Klassen at this link or in the audio player at the bottom of this story. Tune in to Bump and Stacy weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.

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