The Seattle Seahawks are in the Super Bowl for the first time since 2015, and the first time since the Pete Carroll era of Seahawks football.
This Super Bowl bid is an incredible feat for the Seahawks, and should be celebrated as such. But, while this is great for the Seahawks, one former player is incredibly unlucky.
As @SeahawksNerd on Twitter/x pointed out, Tyler Lockett somehow managed to perfectly sandwich his Seahawks career between their Super Bowl appearances. Lockett’s career is incredibly unlucky, as he just missed both Super Bowl windows.
Tyler Lockett missed both Seahawks Super Bowl windows
“Man, I’m gutted for Tyler Lockett,” Seahawks Nerd posted on Twitter/x. “Joined the Seahawks in 2015, coming off back-to-back Super Bowls. Put in ten years of elite wide receiver work for this team and left after 2024. Seattle immediately gets back to a Super Bowl in their first season without him.”
Lockett was a third-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, the draft right after their Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots.
From 2015 until 2024, Lockett spent his entire career with the Seahawks. The now 33-year-old finally left the team, signing with the Tennessee Titans this offseason, then getting released and joining the Las Vegas Raiders in the middle of the year.
It just so happens that in Lockett’s first year away from the team, the Seahawks made the Super Bowl. And somehow, it’s against the same team.
The year before Lockett joined the Seahawks, and the year after Lockett left the Seahawks, Seattle played in the Super Bowl against the Patriots.
He spent 10 years in Seattle, and somehow, he perfectly fit his Seahawks career in the 10-year window the Seahawks were absent from the Super Bowl.
This is an incredible coincidence, and a bit of massively unfortunate luck for Lockett. The standout wide receiver was incredibly underrated in his career, and this statistic will likely only make things worse.
