Sounds like the Seahawks are pursuing Kupp. He may want to stay on the West coast and get to play the Rams twice a season to boot. Just saw the SeaHags signed DeMarcus Lawerence.
Seattle is also about 2 hours from Kupp's hometown (Yakima) and about 4 hours from where he went to college (Eastern Washington). Pretty familiar to him for a few reasons.
That said I would happily welcome such a signing. It would not exactly be "typical" for us but I think it would check a lot of boxes.
I've said before that I think we need at least two additions to the WR room. Before Watson went out, it was my feeling that we need a good "go-to-guy", someone who can serve as a security blanket for Love and get you the easy completions aplenty.
Kupp is not going to be that "Take the top off guy" like Watson, but he fills a lot of those other needs for me. He's one of the more sure-handed guys out there and does well on contested balls. Playing under McVay he is going to be familiar with a lot of the same "DNA" as LaFleur so presumably would not take long to acclimate. He's a great route runner and as mentioned IMO would really open up a lot of those easy completions, "High percentage" routes. To my eye we don't really have any one go-to guy that makes things easy on the QB in that way. And I think some of our young guys could benefit from having a veteran presence like Kupp. He's won basically everything as a WR.
Of course there is a big concern about availability. He's missed significant time in each of the last few seasons (I think 4+ games in each of the last 3-4 seasons) and at 31, 32+ he's not likely to get a ton healthier with age. He will probably not be super cheap either. Sounds like most estimates are going to be around 10-12m/yr. And I do hear some argument that a player like that takes snaps from your younger guys...but IMO at this point it's getting close to being "put up or shut up" time. Reed's going into year 3. Watson's going into year 4 (admittedly with a bit of an asterisk). Wicks is hitting year 3, Doubs is heading into 4. Melton and Heath are both going into their 3rd years too. I'm not saying it's time to bail out entirely, but if you've got guys in their 3rd/4th years who are getting beaten out by a guy who's 31, 32, 33 towards the tail end of his career, then maybe it's time to start questioning exactly what you've got and/or where their ceilings are.
Overall, I'd be very much in favor of making that sort of deal and double-dipping in the draft too, in all likelihood (As said, Kupp does nothing to replace Watson, that still remains but affords us more draft flexibility IMO)
