The Seattle Seahawks look quite different now from their Super Bowl years, but one name who has remained a constant is wide receiver Doug Baldwin.
However, Baldwin's status for the Seahawks' Wild Card Round matchup against the Dallas Cowboys this Saturday may be in question, as he missed practice on Tuesday with a knee injury:
Baldwin had a mediocre season, playing in 13 games and hauling in 50 receptions for 618 yards and five touchdowns.
Those are not the kinds of numbers we are using to seeing from the two-time Pro Bowler, but at 30 years of age, Father Time may be starting to get to Baldwin.
The Gulf Breeze, Fl. native, who played his collegiate football at Stanford University, went undrafted but signed with Seattle as a free agent in 2011.
He went on to play in all 16 games during his rookie campaign and was a pleasant surprise, catching 51 passes for 788 yards and four scores. After a quiet year in 2012, Baldwin surfaced as one of the Seahawks' top receiving threats during their Super Bowl-winning year of 2013, snaring 50 balls for 778 yards while reaching the end zone five times.
Baldwin then hit his prime in 2015, registering 78 catches for 1,069 yards and a league-leading 14 touchdowns. He followed that up with his first Pro Bowl appearance in 2016, finishing with 94 grabs for 1,128 yards and seven scores.
Baldwin made another trip to Honolulu last season, totaling 75 receptions for 991 yards and eight touchdowns.
The Seahawks went 10-6 on the year and are back in the playoffs after a brief one-year absence. Prior to last season, Seattle had made the postseason five years in a row.
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