Tyler Lockett will be named captain for the potential playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 18

Ten years ago, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett made his NFL debut by scoring a punt return touchdown on the road against the St. Louis Rams.

Over 650 catches and 65 total touchdowns later, Lockett’s Seahawks career could come to an end in the road game against the Los Angeles Rams.

The Seahawks announced Lockett (along with former Rams linebacker Ernest Jones IV and punter Michael Dickson) as gameday captains for the Week 18 finale in Seattle. Before he was named captain, Lockett acknowledged the distinct possibility that his time with Seattle was coming to an end.

“It occurred to me that the Vikings might have been my last home game here,” Lockett said in his media release Thursday. “It crossed my mind that maybe this could be my last Thursday practice or my last Friday practice, you know, if I’m part of the team, but also those conversations will happen at the end of the season. You know, right now I keep playing no matter what happens. That’s why I always tell John (Schneider) how grateful I am for finding ways to keep me here.

“When Pete (Carroll) was here last year I told him the same thing. I met with both of them and told them that I appreciated everything they had done for me, because last year too I thought that might have been the last trip where I could be on a team here and that’s why I wanted to I do it again For me there is no animosity. There is nothing, nothing, so to speak. I always have love on my side and even though things may not have worked out on the field, I have won at so many other things in life that I really have to thank God for putting me in a position like this in the first place to win .”

Lockett, 32, said he intends to continue playing next season, whether with the Seahawks or elsewhere. After last offseason’s contract restructuring, his salary cap peak for 2025 is more than $30 million, so it’s safe to assume he could be a salary cap casualty this offseason.

If this is indeed Lockett’s final season with the Seahawks, he will leave as the most productive receiver in franchise history alongside Steve Largent. He ranks second in receptions (659), yards (8,566) and touchdowns (61), not to mention his early career as one of the better special teams returners in the league. It was an honor and a privilege to watch him play, and he should be a recipient of the Seahawks Ring of Honor whenever his career ends.

While there’s no playoff implications at stake for Seattle and negligible seeding implications (at least in Sean McVay’s eyes) for the NFC West champions, this is still a chance to get one of the best Seahawks receivers of all time in Seattle to see play uniformly again.