Like many Seattle Seahawks fans, I wanted Drew Lock to be the team’s starting quarterback. He may still get that opportunity down the line, but for now it’s Geno Smith’s chance to turn his career around a whopping eight years removed from the last time he was a Week 1 starter.
The reasons for preferring Lock over Geno were understandable; he is much younger than Smith, has a stronger arm, is more mobile, and he figures to have a higher ceiling than Smith within the parameters of the Seahawks offense. We’ve seen Smith’s tenure with the New York Jets and it was horrible, and his few emergency starts during Russell Wilson’s absence were hardly anything to write home about.