RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Considering that Tyler Lockett is about to begin another season working under a new offensive coordinator, the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver would have liked to be a little more active during training camp.
But he’s an expert on learning new systems after going through it several times previously in his career. By this point, he actually likes getting a new education every few years.
“It’s been interesting because I think every three years I’ve had a new offensive coordinator and so it’s allowed me to approach the game different and it’s allowed me to see the game different and learn different ways and unique abilities to be able to use my skills to go out there and still try and do the same thing that I’ve been doing,” Lockett said.
Lockett will hit his benchmark 10th season with the Seahawks on Sunday when the season begins by hosting Denver. He’ll be one of six players on Seattle’s roster who will take the field for the opener entering their 10th season or later, and wearing the Seahawks’ throwback jerseys from the 1990s for the opener against their former AFC West foe.
Hitting the 10-year mark isn’t lost on Lockett, who at the start of his career was hoping to reach eight and top the seven-year career of his father Kevin.
“I’m at the point now where I want to be able to take my game to another level regardless of age, regardless of years,” Lockett said.
Lockett hasn’t participated much during training camp with only limited information about why he’s been taking it slowly. During joint practices with Tennessee in the middle of August, Seattle coach Mike Macdonald said Lockett has, “got a little something going on in his leg right now, but he’s good.”
Lockett scoffed at the idea he wouldn’t be out there for Sunday’s opener and didn’t seem bothered by the limited reps in training camp.
“It was just some things that I needed to kind of get worked on and get fixed and they didn’t want me to kind of go out there and make things worse, or kind of put me out to where I’m in jeopardy of not being able to play in the season,” Lockett said. “I think Mike did a great job. The athletic training staff did a great job.”
Assuming he’s full go for the opener, Lockett will be part of a wide receiver group that should be among the best in the league alongside DK Metcalf, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Jake Bobo. Lockett is also excited to see what the new offense of Ryan Grubb will look like on an NFL field, noting how it breaks from a lot of conventional schemes for wide receivers.
“Some things mix in with what I’ve been a part of, whether I was at Kansas State or whether I was with other coordinators,” Lockett said. “But there’s just one thing that make it slightly different to where you’re like, ‘that makes a lot of sense. I wonder why we didn’t learn this back in the day or learn this in college or see this route differently.’”
NOTES: Seattle signed QB Jaren Hall to the practice squad after he was released by Minnesota last week. The addition of Hall gives Seattle three QBs on the roster along with Geno Smith and Sam Howell. Hall started two games as a rookie last season for the Vikings. … Along with the opener, the Seahawks will wear their popular throwback uniforms again in Week 6 against San Francisco.
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FILE - Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett warms up before a preseason NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Aug. 24, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
FILE - Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett looks on after an NFL pre-season football game against the Cleveland Browns, Aug. 24, 2024 in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ben VanHouten, File)
NICE, France (AP) — At least eight people died during a failed attempt to cross the English Channel from northern France, French maritime authorities said Sunday.
The incident occurred Saturday just before midnight when authorities spotted a boat, carrying dozens, in distress near a beach in the northern town of Ambleteuse.
A French rescue ship was deployed to the area and rescue services offered medical assistance to 53 migrants on the beach, a statement from the French maritime authorities in charge of the Channel and the North Sea said.
“Despite the emergency care provided, eight people have died,” the statement said.
No people were discovered during the search at sea, it added.
Six people were taken to hospital “in relative emergency,” including a 10-month-old baby with hypothermia, Jacques Billant, the Pas-de-Calais prefect, told French media on Sunday. He said survivors of the accident come from Eritrea, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt and Iran.
Survivors of the tragedy have been taken to the sports hall in Ambleteuse, according to a statement from the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais region. Prosecutor's office in Boulogne-sur-mer has opened an investigation into the accident.
The incident Saturday occurred nearly two weeks after a boat carrying migrants ripped apart in the English Channel as they attempted to reach Britain from northern France, plunging dozens into the treacherous waterway and leaving 13 dead, officials said.
British officials were quick to express sadness over another English Channel incident.
“It’s awful,’’ Foreign Secretary David Lammy told the BBC. “It’s a further loss of life.”
The new Labour Party government has pledged to crack down on criminal gangs plying the channel trade and had discussed with European partners “how we go after those gangs, in co-operation upstream.’’
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be in Italy on Monday for talks with counterpart Giorgia Meloni about her efforts to tackle the problem “and the work they have done, particularly, with Albania.’’
Starmer is interested the policy, under which Tirana will accept asylum seekers on Italy’s behalf while their claims are processed.
On Saturday, French coast guard and navy vessels rescued 200 people from the treacherous waters in the Pas-de-Calais area, according to a report sent by French maritime authorities in charge of the Channel and the North Sea.
They said they observed 18 attempts of boat departures from France to Britain on Saturday.
Before Saturday’s accident, at least 43 migrants had died or gone missing while trying to cross to the U.K. this year, according to the International Organization for Migration.
In July, four migrants died while attempting the crossing on an inflatable boat that capsized and punctured. Five others, including a child, died in another attempt in April. Five dead were recovered from the sea or found washed up along a beach after a migrant boat ran into difficulties in the dark and winter cold of January.
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Associated Press Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.
FILE - A boat thought to be with migrants is escorted by a vessel from the French Gendarmerie Nationale off the Wimereux beach, France, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga, File)
FILE - A vessel of the French Gendarmerie Nationale patrols in front of the Wimereux beach, France, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga, File)
A least 8 people have died trying to cross the English Channel, French authorities say
A least 8 people have died trying to cross the English Channel, French authorities say
FILE - A view of one of the vessels from the French Gendarmerie Nationale in the port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, after participating in the rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants ripped apart attempting to cross the English Channel. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga, File)
