Longtime Seahawks receiver Tyler Lockett reaches agreement with Titans

After the final game of the 2024 season, Tyler Lockett said, “I will always be a Seahawk through and through.’’

But for the 2025 season, Lockett will be a Tennessee Titan.

Lockett himself announced via social media Wednesday night that he has reached an agreement to play next season with Tennessee.

I’m excited to be a Tennessee Titan!! I’m super thankful and grateful Let’s get it!! God you get all the glory!! #Thankful #Grateful #GodGetsAllTheGlory — Tyler Lockett (@TDLockett12) April 24, 2025

“I’m excited to be a Tennessee Titan!!,’’ Lockett wrote. “I’m super thankful and grateful. Let’s get it!! God you get all the glory!!’’

The NFL Network and ESPN each reported that Lockett has agreed to a one-year deal with a base value of $4 million with a chance to make $6 million.

Lockett was released by the Seahawks on March 5 in a move that saved $17 million in salary cap space for the 2025 season.

Heading to Tennessee means Lockett will have a chance at a reunion with the Seahawks in 2025 as the Titans will host Seattle. Dates and times of games are expected to be set early next month.

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Going to Tennessee also means Lockett will likely be playing with former WSU quarterback Cam Ward, who is widely expected to be taken first by the Titans in the NFL draft, which begins Thursday.

Lockett joins a receiving group in Tennessee that also includes veteran Calvin Ridley — a 30-year-old who led the Titans last season with 64 receptions for 1,017 yards — and free agent signee Van Jefferson.

Receiver has been regarded as one of the bigger needs for a Tennessee team that has a lot of them, having finished 3-14 in 2024 under first-year coach Brian Callahan.

Lockett played 10 seasons with the Seahawks and ranks second in team history behind Hall of Famer Steve Largent in receptions (661), receiving yards (8,594) and receiving touchdowns (61). Lockett also ranks second in punt-return yards (1,078) as well as average yards per kickoff return (25.1) and kickoffs returned for touchdowns (two).

He’s 10th in franchise history in games played (161) and is a three-time winner of the Steve Largent Award, voted on by players and given to the player or coach who best exemplifies the spirit, dedication and integrity of the Seahawks.

He won the award the past two seasons and in 2021.

Lockett, who turns 33 in September, was released after a season in which all of his stats dropped — his 49 receptions were his fewest since his third season with the team in 2017, as were his 600 receiving yards and two touchdowns.

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Lockett’s drop in production came as second-year receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba had a breakout season, tying Lockett’s single-season team record with 100 receptions.

Lockett was released on the same day it was reported that DK Metcalf had requested a trade. Metcalf was eventually dealt to the Steelers. While general manager John Schneider had said the door wasn’t completely closed on a Lockett return to Seattle, the Seahawks’ quick moves to sign Cooper Kupp and Marquez Valdes-Scantling indicated the Seahawks were moving on.

“Tyler and I had talked a long time ago about what’s happening there,” Schneider said the week after Lockett was released. “One of my all-time favorites, obviously. He’s going in the Ring of Honor [someday]. Just a phenomenal person.”

Lockett had returned the feeling earlier, saying following his last game against the Rams in January that he would leave with no ill will.

“I always tell [general manager] John [Schneider] how thankful I am that he was able to find ways to keep me here [for 10 years],’’ said Lockett, who restructured his contract last spring to allow him to stay in Seattle of the 2024 season. “When Pete [Carroll] was here last year, I told him the same thing. I met with both of them and told them I appreciate everything that they’ve done for me because, again, last year I thought that may have been the last ride with being able to be here on a team. And so, again, like to me there’s no hostility. There’s no, like, nothing. There’s always love on my side of things.”

But Lockett, who had acknowledged late in the season that he knew he might be playing his final season with Seattle in 2024, insisted throughout he wanted to keep playing whether with the Seahawks or another team and felt he could still play at a high level.

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“So, yeah, it sucks for me as a player when you hear people say, ‘Oh, he’s too old, or he’s washed, or he’s not the same type of player,'” Lockett said during the final week of the season. “I promise you, if you go watch the film, that’s not the case, you know what I’m saying? … So I’m cool with being able to stand on that because a lot of people in this organization and a lot of people, whether it’s the players or the coaches, understand the sacrifice that I made to try to make this team be the best team possible that they could be.’’

He’ll get the chance to prove it in Tennessee while also fulfilling a wish of being able to share his career with his child. Lockett and wife Lauren are expecting the birth of their first child, a daughter, in May.

“Just looking forward to it,’’ he said in December. “I get to enjoy football, I get to play as long as I can, and I get the chance to be able to take pictures with my kid and just different stuff like that to where they might not ever really understand it but as they get older they’ll be like, ‘Oh, you did play football,’ because I was able to take pictures with them.’’

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