
Almost everybody seemed surprised by Geno Smith’s rise to become one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks last season. Everyone except Smith and his Seahawks teammates, that is. For his part, Smith says he saw his rise coming as the game slowed down for him. Meanwhile, wide receiver Tyler Lockett was also unsurprised that Smith played as well as he did.
It took a while for them to establish a rhythm, but once they did the partnership proved every bit as fruitful as it was between Lockett and Seattle’s former QB1, Russell Wilson. Here’s what Lockett told Henry McKenna at Fox Sports about his chemistry with Geno Smith.