The Seattle Seahawks have made the Super Bowl, and will go up against the New England Patriots for some revenge 10 years in the making.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba will be a big factor in this game, and while Cooper Kupp and Rashid Shaheed are nice options, the offense is missing something.
That missing something is addressed by ESPN's Matt Miller in his latest mock draft. He has the Seahawks taking a wide receiver in the first round in a 6-foot-4, 218-pound WR out of Notre Dame to be a perfect complement to JSN for years to come.
Seahawks predicted to take 6'4'' WR from Notre Dame to pair nicely with JSN
This big-bodied wide receiver that Miller predicts the Seahawks will take is standout Notre Dame WR Malachi Fields. After a solid year, his dominant Senior Bowl performance has him rising on Miller's draft board.
"One of the biggest winners of the Senior Bowl," Miller writes, "Fields parlayed a great week on top of a really strong career at Notre Dame to get into Round 1."
Taking Fields in the first round might be a little rich, considering that most of the year, he hadn't been viewed as such. But the Seahawks have a sneaky need at wide receiver, and Fields would be a perfect complement to JSN going forward.
"The Seahawks have an elite smaller receiver in Smith-Njigba," Miller writes, "but a physical presence like Fields on the outside would keep defenses from bracketing JSN in the slot or when he's aligned outside."
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Adding Fields, who is a bigger-bodied WR, would help give JSN more space on the field, as teams will have to account for Fields.
He had 36 receptions for 630 yard sand five touchdowns this season. While not the best year by any means, and while he's a Senior and a bit older than most other prospects, Fields would be a great complement to Smith-Njigba going forward.
This prediction from Miller is a bold one, as Fields hasn't been tabbed as a first-rounder much this offseason. But, if there were one team he'd be a perfect fit on, it would be the Seahawks.
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