How Seattle’s Charles Cross, Abraham Lucas Can Make 2nd-Year Leap - Locked On Seahawks Podcast

After being key contributors for a surprising playoff team, expectations for Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas will be even higher in their second seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. Which areas stand as their biggest areas of improvement moving into 2023?

Corbin K. Smith | Jun 1, 2023

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Making history as only the third pair of rookie tackles since 1970 to open the season as starters, Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas somehow exceeded expectations for the playoff-bound Seattle Seahawks a year ago. What's next for an encore?

Looking back at their rookie seasons in retrospect, hosts Corbin Smith and Rob Rang discuss where Cross and Lucas must improve the most heading into their sophomore seasons at the bookend spots for Seattle.

Smith and Rang also take a look at intriguing NFL comps for safety Jerrick Reed II and where the sixth-round pick may fit in out of the gate and dish their early thoughts on how the competition between veteran Phil Haynes and rookie Anthony Bradford will play out at right guard this summer.

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Published Jun 1, 2023

CORBIN K. SMITH

Graduating from Manchester College in 2012, Smith began his professional career as a high school Economics teacher in Indianapolis and launched his own NFL website covering the Seahawks as a hobby. After teaching and coaching high school football for five years, he transitioned to a full-time sports reporter in 2017, writing for USA Today's Seahawks Wire while continuing to produce the Legion of 12 podcast. He joined the Arena Group in August 2018 and also currently hosts the daily Locked On Seahawks podcast with Rob Rang and Nick Lee. Away from his coverage of the Seahawks and the NFL, Smith dabbles in standup comedy, is a heavy metal enthusiast and previously performed as lead vocalist for a metal band, and enjoys distance running and weight lifting. A habitual commuter, he resides with his wife Natalia in Colorado and spends extensive time reporting from his second residence in the Pacific Northwest.