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Earl Thomas is done in Seattle. I know Youth Rashaad Penny Jersey , that’s still a very painful sentence to read and it was tough writing it too; but the truth really does hurt. The front office tried to trade him for a 2nd round pick last offseason. Thomas has missed time in each of the last three seasons through injury. The relationship is seemingly broken beyond repair. Without Thomas, Pete Carroll got creative last year with his scheme, playing more two-high coverage and disguising things better. Ultimately, the Seahawks’ safety group became more interchangeable and versatile, defying the prototypes of the “strong” and “free” monikers. The coverage schemes were in some ways more passive. For Seattle’s defense to be at its most dominant, having a true center fielder to cover the deep middle third of cover 3 is preferable. Thomas’ prescient range is generational and at a Hall of Fame. What if John Schneider tried to give Carroll more range back there? What if he wanted to upgrade the hesitancy and bad tackling of Tedric Thompson? What if he wanted to add more team speed on the back end?In each draft, there are a small amount of safeties that meet the “rangy enough for NFL single-high” requirement. Last year, for instance, Derwin James, Minkah Fitzpatrick and Jessie Bates flashed it. In their rookie seasons, only James showed the sideline-to-sideline, arm-beating talent. The draft before, Malik Hooker hinted at that too.2019’s safety class is particularly weak, and there are only two prospects whose tape shows sideline to sideline potential in the pros. Deionte Thompson and Nasir Adderley are the two players we’ll be looking at this week in “Draft on tape.”Deionte ThompsonDeionte Thompson was the consensus first safety off the board coming into the season. Draftniks had him firmly in their top 10. But two blown coverages in the college football playoff against Oklahoma and Clemson saw his stock fall. Personally, I feel placing the blame solely on Thompson’s shoulders for those mix-ups is foolish.Alabama’s coverage was strangely “bad” all year, with persistent blown assignments and missed communications. The way Thompson played both assignments told me that he was playing what he thought was right, rather than being blind to an obvious key or failing to execute the right technique.His play throughout the season confirmed this, given he often did his job to the regimented degree that you expect from a Nick Saban-coached, starting safety. He played with a clear understanding of the Crimson Tide’s scheme. Smaller space rangeFrom a Seattle Seahawks perspective, for them to take a safety high, they must put fantastic range on tape. Thompson flashed impressive range in the tighter areas of the field. From hashmark to hashmark against slower vertical crossers, he could run with them and undercut them. He picked up vertical seams. He got over the top of deep sideline routes from two-high. Stuff in Thompson’s immediate vicinity would be blanketed by the 21-year-old (22 in February) and swatted incomplete. (Deionte*, my apologies)Man coverage and matchingThompson’s ability to cover in tighter spaces extended to man coverage, where Saban’s matching placed him in man-to-man assignments. He could get over the top of routes playing in two-high, but also rotate downwards as a safety. As a down safety, he covered receivers’ routes with impressive physicality, footwork, patience and route recognition.Range limitationsBy this point http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-chris-carson-jersey , you are probably asking why on earth the Seahawks shouldn’t draft Deionte Thompson? Answer: his range isn’t “crazy” or even sideline to sideline, like some analysts have claimed. Sure, Saban’s scheme demands that his middle of the field safety plays primarily from hashmark to hashmark, meaning that seam routes will hold them there and limit the range potential. Yet, even with that limiter factored in, Thompson’s range still disappointed from the plaudits he’d received. He wasn’t helped by limited burst or long speed—I’d be shocked if he ran quicker than the 4.5s. His tape is full of “nearly” plays that he’ll get further away from making in the NFL. Minkah Fitzpatrick managed to make some of these plays. Thompson couldn’t. It wasn’t just from single-high positions; he struggled trying to get to the honey hole in a “palms” assignment too. (Take all of #2 vertically unless #2 goes out in first 5 yards, then take all of #1 vertically). None of this looks like a safety who Seattle would take relatively high. Hit powerThompson is a vicious safety who was always trying to get a hit in on the ballcarrier and punished receivers catching in the weak spots of the defensive coverage. Encouragingly, he led with his shoulder rather than his head when going for the oncoming train impact.Dangerous and ineffective tacklingHowever, his tackling technique needs refinement and is borderline dangerous. He does not maintain a near-hip relationship when approaching the ball-carrier, resulting in overaggressive pursuit angles. He lunges into tackles, resulting in misses and little wrap. He ducks his head into tackles, resulting in an increased risk in paralysis and missed targets. Better angles, footwork and form is needed. In summary...not a SeahawkIn summary, Thompson’s flashes don’t outweigh the fact he hasn’t put on tape pure single-high safety traits. He’s a high football IQ player that will make plays, but his best fit is as a two-high safety who can be moved around in the NFL. If Seattle wants to take a shot at a rangy single-high safety, they should aim for the lofty heights of Mount Rainier and look at the raw Nasir Adderley. I covered him in this Draft on tape. This morning I saw a video of Adam Thielen and it just reminded how good the Vikings wide receiver really is. Even after catching 91 passes for 1,276 yards last season, Thielen is on another one this year with Kirk Cousins as his quarterback and John DeFilippo as his new offensive coordinator. He leads the NFL with 47 catches and he’s on pace to have 1,887 yards; there’s a good chance that if he’s healthy, Thielen will break the single-season receptions record and that’s even with sharing the field with Stefon Diggs, who himself is on pace for just under 1,300 yards.Thielen also became the first player since Charley Hennigan in 1961 to post at least 100 receiving yards in each of his team’s first five games of a season. (Hennigan was about 60 years ahead of his time, because he also posted 272 yards in game five, 108 yards in game six, and 232 yards in game seven of that season, finishing with 1,746 yards in 13 games. Thielen has some work to do.)Looking over Thielen’s game log though, I noticed that while he has put up 100 yards each week http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-duane-brown-jersey , there was one game that maybe wasn’t so good: in Week 3’s shocking loss to the Buffalo Bills, Thielen had 105 yards but it came on 19 targets. That’s only 5.53 yards per target. In every other game, Thielen was at least at 8.5 yards per target, a more top tier kinda number, and anything over 10 is really, really good. I decided to find out if any wide receiver, in a season full of record numbers being put up in the passing game, had put up atleast eight yards per target in each of the first five games, and there was only one:Tyler Lockett.Though Lockett has not hit the 100-yard mark yet, he and the Seattle Seahawks offensive playcalling has made the most of his opportunities. Lockett has caught 20 of 28 targets and his lowest output of the season in terms of Y/T is 8.57 in Week 2 vs the Chicago Bears, the league’s number one defense so far. He has also caught a touchdown in four of five games and had over 12 Y/T three times.Only six players have caught a touchdown in four different games this season: Lockett, Cooper Kupp, Davante Adams, Eric Ebron, James White, and Antonio Brown.Lockett is seventh in yards per reception (17.4) behind only DeSean Jackson, Robby Anderson, John Brown, Jesse James, O.J. Howard, and Brandin Cooks.Russell Wilson has completed five-of-eight “deep targets” to Lockett per Pro-Football-Reference, with four of those going for touchdowns.Drafted in the third round in 2015, there was talk at the time of Lockett looking very similar to Brown, the NFL’s best wideout of his generation, in my opinion. Of course, these comparisons were being made more because of physical attributes and maybe some style of play, but nobody could reasonably expect Lockett to have six straight seasons of 100+ catches and 1,200+ yards http://www.authenticsseattleseahawks.com/cheap-k.j.-wright-jersey , maybe going on a seventh, leading the league in receptions twice and yardage twice. And sure enough we have not seen that from Lockett over his first 3.25 seasons, but in microdoses like this one, where Lockett is a consistent performer in Y/T to open 2018, Lockett shows why he is still special and why it was a good idea for the Seahawks to extend him when they did for what they did. Does it portend some greater, Brown-like future ahead?Not likely, because there are still some great limitations in terms of potential output in a Pete Carroll offense. (No matter who the offensive coordinator is, it’s still going to be a Pete Carroll offense.) Lockett has received 28 targets this year while Brown, having his worst season to date probably, has 66 targets. That volume difference is insane, but it also illustrates just how different many NFL offenses are from the Seahawks’ version. That’s 13 targets per game for Brown compared to 5.6 for Lockett. Even last year, Brown had 11.6 targets per game and Lockett’s not even close to that despite Doug Baldwin missing virtually all of the first four games and serving mostly as a distraction in Week 5.Quickly I’ll note what some might be thinking: Even Brown didn’t actually break out in the way that we know him until his fourth season, and Lockett was recovering from a broken leg last year, so 2017 is a bit of a wash. However, it won’t solve the issue of total volume of targets he’ll ever receive while playing for Carroll.If he were unleashed to another city, then maybe. Golden Tate went from 64 catches and 898 yards in his final season with Seattle to 99 catches and 1,331 yards in his first season with the Detroit Lions. We know now that Lockett isn’t going anywhere. With the Seahawks, Lockett may never receive the volume of targets necessary to be a 1,500-yard receiver, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be extremely valuable to the offense, which he already has been. If he gets 100 targets at this pace, Lockett will have 71 catches for 1,239 yards. That’d be about the most efficient 1,200-yard season you could ask for and it’s the rate he’s been playing at for almost a third of an NFL year. He’s also 16th in DYAR and fifth in DVOA.In a season full of receiving and passing numbers that seemed unfathomable a decade ago, Lockett isn’t putting up “the most” of anything really, but he’s been about as reliable as valuable as anybody when those opportunities have come to him.