The 2020 NFL Draft is in the books, and that means it’s time for us to fully turn our attention to the 2020 NFL season and fantasy football. While COVID-19 means we can’t guarantee an NFL season, our league mates want us to be on our heels, unprepared for the season. Never you fear, Football Absurdity is here to cover all of the 78 fantasy football eligible players drafted in the 2020 NFL Draft. Keep in mind, most of these guys won’t get selected in your draft, but you’ll want to know these 2020 NFL draftees when your fantasy football draft comes around. As for undrafted free agents, we will worry about those guys down the line. We’ve already covered the Cardinal, Rams, and Niners, and we finish the NFC West with the Seattle Seahawks.
The Seattle Seahawks had one of the better rookie fantasy football producers last year with D.K. Metcalf. This year, they took a player at each non-quarterback position in fantasy football (two of them at tight end!). How can these four guys help your 2020 fantasy football squads? Or can these guys even help your 2020 fantasy football squads? We break down all of the Seattle Seahawks’ fantasy football eligible draft picks below!
FULL SEATTLE SEAHAWKS NFL DRAFT RESULTS
| Rd | Pick | Player | Pos | School |
| 1 | 27 | Jordyn Brooks | LB | Texas Tech |
| 2 | 16 | Darrell Taylor | EDGE | Tennessee |
| 3 | 5 | Damien Lewis | OG | LSU |
| 4 | 27 | Colby Parkinson | TE | Stanford |
| 4 | 38 | DeeJay Dallas | RB | Miami |
| 5 | 2 | Alton Robinson | EDGE | Syracuse |
| 6 | 35 | Freddie Swain | WR | Florida |
| 7 | 37 | Stephen Sullivan | TE | LSU |
Round 4, Pick 27: Colby Parkinson, Tight End, Stanford (6’7” 252 lbs)
| 40-yd Dash | Bench Press | Vertical Jump | Broad Jump | 3 Cone | 20-yd shuttle | 60-yd shuttle |
| 4.77 (u) | 18 reps | 32.5 in | 109.0 in | 7.15s | 4.46s | — |
Courtesy: NFL.com, (u) = unofficial.
Depth Chart:Seattle Seahawks 2020 Fantasy Football Rookie Roundup
TE1 Greg Olsen
TE2 Will Dissly
TE3 Colby Parkinson
TE4 Jacob Hollister
TE5 Luke Willson
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Colby is a very tall boy (6’7”) who desperately needs to put on weight and learn how to block if he wants to be a do-it-all TE at the next level. He’s just too tall for his weight (tenth-tallest skill position player drafted since 2000) and gets overleveraged constantly on blocks. His iffy technique doesn’t help, either. That having been said, it would be pretty nice to have a 6’7” slot receiver on your team in the NFL, and Parkinson can do that.
Parkinson is good at redirecting back to the ball and knows how to use his height well. He also does well to work himself open against man and finds the holes in zones. Parkinson did not drop a single pass in 2019, according to Pro Football Focus. He is essentially a big WR, and we have to hope the Seattle Seahawks realize that sooner rather than later and lets him be Mike Gesicki (can’t block a lick) and not George Kittle.
2020 OPPORTUNITY
Rookie tight ends rarely do anything. And when I say rarely, I mean… rarely. Parkinson still has to fight his way to the top of a depth chart to even get in position to be disappointing to us his rookie year. The Seahawks went out and got a ton of tight ends onto their roster, diluting the position’s viability for 2020 fantasy football leagues.
2020 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
A rookie tight end in a deep Seattle Seahawks tight end room with no draft capital to speak of pushing the team to give him targets? Yeah. I’m not interested in him for 2020 fantasy football.
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Round 4, Pick 38: DeeJay Dallas, Running Back, Miami (5’10” 217 lbs)
| 40-yd Dash | Bench Press | Vertical Jump | Broad Jump | 3 Cone | 20-yd shuttle | 60-yd shuttle |
| 4.58 (u) | — | 33.5 in | 119.0 in | 7.18s | 4.32s | — |
Courtesy: NFL.com, (u) = unofficial.
Depth Chart:
RB1 Chris Carson
RB2 Rashaad Penny
RB3 Travis Homer
RB4 DeeJay Dallas
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Dallas played quarterback in high school, came to Miami as a wide receiver, and has just 265 career carries under his belt. He didn’t become a full-time running back until 2018, being listed as a utility player or “offensive weapon” in 2017. Still, you can see that he hasn’t hit his developmental ceiling when he runs. He has a great nose for extra yardage and weaves in and out of defenders. He’s mostly a north-south runner, relying on his vision to get him open in the second level.
Dallas still struggles to find space in a pile since he has minimal instincts and his processing speed isn’t there yet. His best trait, however, is his contact balance. He rarely goes down with the first tackle and bounces off defenders. He’s a great depth piece to carry, as his runs seem to rarely hurt Miami. He was part of a committee in college, and will likely be one at the NFL level until he develops.
2020 OPPORTUNITY
This part is a real headscratcher for me, as the Seahawks depth chart was wiped out by injuries last season. Chris Carson broke his hip, Rashaad Penny tore his ACL, and C.J. Prosise injured his… *spins wheel* …arm. Prosise is gone, and (Dallas’ former teammate) Travis Homer filled in decently enough for Seattle in limited work, but Penny and Carson still have their 2020 season-long availability up in the air. Should Penny and Carson miss the beginning of the season, Dallas should step in as a decent part of a one-two punch with Homer. I do think that he’s a better player in space than Homer, but his lack of experience running the ball likely limits his work in 2020.
2020 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
I’m not one to poo-poo running backs who need a lot of guys to get hurt ahead of them to have value, and I’m not going to do it here. Especially when the backs ahead of him are already hurt and are Rashaad Penny and Chris Carson. That having been said, Dallas feels more like a developmental depth piece for the Seahawks than someone they will call upon to get significant run at this point in his career.
THAT having been said, if the Seahawks have to call on DeeJay Dallas, he feels like another in the long line of Seattle Seahawks running backs since Marshawn Lynch that don’t seem like a lot but end up more than the sum of their parts. The Seahawks want to run, and if Dallas is the one with the ball, he should do well. I have cautious optimism for Dallas if the Seahawks need to call on him. The only question is if they really need to do that.
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(subject to change pending Carson and Penny injuries)
2020 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK:
Round 6, Pick 35: Freddie Swain, Florida (6’0” 197 lbs)
| 40-yd Dash | Bench Press | Vertical Jump | Broad Jump | 3 Cone | 20-yd shuttle | 60-yd shuttle |
| 4.46s (u) | 16 reps | 36.5 in | 124.0 in | 7.05s | 4.26s | — |
Courtesy: NFL.com, (u) = unofficial.
Depth Chart:
WR1 Tyler Lockett
WR2 D.K. Metcalf
WR3 Phillip Dorsett
WR4 Freddie Swain
WR5 David Moore
WR6 John Ursua
WR7 Stephen Sullivan
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There’s a reason why guys like Freddie Swain don’t really work too well for fantasy football purposes at the NFL level. He’s fast with the ball and has some good hands when open. He’s a natural pass catcher, and extremely dangerous when he has the ball. Therein lies the problem. Swain runs a lot of playground routes, curving and ending routes in looping, inefficient fashion. When you’re playing against future used car salesmen on a wide-open college field, it tends to work. When you’re going against technicians at the NFL level, that’s when you run into problems. It all comes down to him being a sloppy route runner, which will limit his upside and fantasy football potential.
2020 OPPORTUNITY
Swain is buried in a depth chart that features two massive ball hogs at the top. The Seahawks don’t pass much if they can help it (fifth-lowest pass rate in 2019), but they did run out three wide receivers at the fourth-highest rate last season (69%). If Swain can beat out Phillip Dorsett for the #3 job, then he will make it onto the field.
2020 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
Fewer than 2% of all wide receivers drafted outside the top-100 picks turn in top-36 seasons their rookie year. I don’t expect a sixth-round wide receiver with basic technical issues to be the one to buck this trend. He’ll hit on a few long TDs on jet sweeps or such throughout the year, but I’m not overly excited by his prospects.
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Round 7, Pick 37: Stephen Sullivan, Tight End/Wide Receiver, LSU (6’5” 248 lbs)
| 40-yd Dash | Bench Press | Vertical Jump | Broad Jump | 3 Cone | 20-yd shuttle | 60-yd shuttle |
| 4.66s (u) | — | 36.5 in | 123.0 in | 7.51s | 4.62s | 00 |
Courtesy: NFL.com, (u) = unofficial.
Depth Chart:
WR1 Tyler Lockett
WR2 D.K. Metcalf
WR3 Phillip Dorsett
WR4 Freddie Swain
WR5 David Moore
WR6 John Ursua
WR7 Stephen Sullivan
TALENT
Sullivan converted to tight end at LSU and seems to be converting back to wide receiver at the NFL level. If that’s so… that’s a big wide receiver. He carries an inch and thirteen pounds on the behemoth D.K. Metcalf, so maybe the Seahawks are looking to get really big with it. He’s a tweener who needs a lot of seasoning at the NFL level but has a willingness to get seasoned, which is good. Moving him from tight end means that Sullivan can deflate a little bit and override some of the sluggishness that would dog him at the NFL level if he tried to play at his TE weight. He has a lot of pass-catching ability that would suit him to a big slot role, just not in 2020. His size, strength, and coachability have me liking his ceiling more than Swain’s, to be honest.
2020 OPPORTUNITY
I don’t expect Sullivan to make it to the active roster. I expect him to end up on the practice squad when all is said and done, with a cup of coffee here and there as players go down with an injury. Don’t expect any sort of fantasy football success out of Sullivan.
2020 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
Sullivan will cap out somewhere near 25 targets. Don’t worry about him.
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For more 2020 NFL Draft coverage, check out these:
Fantasy Football Fallout: 2020 NFL Draft Round One
Football Absurdity Podcast: First Round Recap
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