Say what you want about Sam Darnold’s decision-making or inability to avoid sacks, but the man’s arm has never been in doubt. He can make every throw in the book. That includes deep seams over the middle, a throw that vanished from the Seattle Seahawks’ offense in the latter stages of Russell Wilson’s tenure as starter and never really returned.
Reports that Darnold, along with Drew Lock and Jalen Milroe, are working on these seam routes in practice should make the 12s very happy. It is one more sign that Seattle’s offense, which has been both boring and predictable for much of the last three seasons, is under new leadership, with a more creative vision of how to attack.