Player Summary: Tyler Lockett, the former Kansas State Wildcat receiver and Team Captain who broke 17 school records including receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns is entering his 4^th year in the NFL. In addition to his kick return ability, which earned him a trip to the Pro Bowl in 2015 as well as being named 1^st Team All-Pro, the receiver has posted stats of at least 40 REC and 550 REC YDS in each year of his young career.

Lockett possesses marginal height and weight with a small build and elite athletic ability with his combination of speed, short-area burst, and acceleration. In his release, Lockett uses his elite speed and acceleration to immediately threaten the off-coverage cornerback and in press coverage uses his quickness and twitchy cuts to gain separation after he has manipulated the defender's hips. He maintains his play speed through his route stem while also, if needed using his arm to keep separation from the defender, in addition to reading the coverage of the defense. At the top of his route stem, he is very quick in and out of cuts, whether they be sharp breaking routes or more rounded off routes, separating him from the defender. He has good hands, makes the easy catches as well as catching balls thrown high or low. After securing the ball, Lockett possesses the play speed to seamlessly transition from a receiver to a runner as well as the agility to make one cut forcing a defender to miss and then use his speed to rack up more YAC.

Lockett's mental processing, however, is what takes his athletic ability, play speed, release, separation quickness, and overall game to another level. He is incredibly smart and it shows in all parts of his route running. Lockett will use his feet and body language to leverage a defender and get him to flip his hips at which point Lockett breaks off his route with ample separation. In zone coverage, Lockett is elite in the short and intermediate range finding holes in the defense and settling his route down. In the deep passing game against zone coverage, Lockett uses his mental processing in another manner, he manipulates his speed, especially on double moves where he is extremely effective, to get the deep safety or deep third corner to either turn their hips the wrong way or to slow down for just half a second. On top of his mental processing, Lockett is a fiery competitor and will often times show his emotion after successful plays in situations where the team is rolling, seemingly encouraging an avalanche of success, and also in situations where his team playing very poorly, attempting to rally the team.

Despite all these great attributes, Lockett has a small frame, marginal play strength and adequate jumping/tracking ability negatively affecting his success on contested catches deep downfield. Lockett's small frame, as well as play strength, is a considerable factor in his ineffectiveness in the red zone with about 8% of his receptions and 7% of his targets coming from inside the red zone. With the condensed space, his top-end speed and deep threat ability are limited and defenders can be more physical with him as a result and while Lockett possesses good hands, he only has an average ability to make a contested catch ability against press man coverage with a defender on his back or a linebacker coming over. Speaking of his contested catch ability, Lockett has marginal ability in the deep passing game in part to his jumping ability and tracking skills and is not dependable to come down with either a jump ball or a ball that hits his hands but is slightly underthrown after he gained separation from the defender allowing the defender to make contact with him. With respect to the running game, Lockett is more than willing to make contact and meet the defender, but his marginal play strength typically has him on the losing side of the matchup despite his competitive toughness.

All in all, Tyler Lockett is a quality starting receiver in the league who wins with his elite athleticism and exceptional mental processing while being able to play inside or outside and threaten defenses at all three levels.

Combine Information

Height: 5099

Weight: 182

40Yard: 4.40

10Yard: 1.55

Arm: 30.0

Hand: 8.38

Vertical: 35.5

3 Cone: 6.89

ProSchuttle: 4.07

Broad Jump: 121

Bench Reps: N/A

Injury History

2015: Suffered two hip injuries in both week 6 and 17 (missed no games)

2016: Week 2 Knee Injury (PCL Tear Grade 3) and Week 7 Thigh Injury. Week 16 Fractured Tibia and Fibula sending him to IR (1 game missed).

2017: Week 1 Knee Injury (no games missed)

Games Scouted

SF@SEA 09/17/2017

SEA@TEN 09/24/2017

IND@SEA 10/01/2017

WAS@SEA 11/05/2017

SEA@JAX 12/10/2017