Tyler Lockett was selected as a 69th overall pick in the third round of the 2015 National Football League draft by the Seattle Seahawks as a wide receiver and return specialist to wear the team’s No. 16 jersey. Coming from the famous Lockett athletic family, he had a distinguished high school and collegiate football career during which he worked through several Wildcats records, including some of his father’s unbroken records, while setting some of his own records in the school history books set up. He ended his time there with several dozen awards for his great achievements as an athlete.
Tyler Lockett’s Bio (Age)
The American soccer player was born Tyler DeronLockett on September 28, 1992 in Tulsa, Okahalama, USA to African American parents. He began his education at Carver Middle School and later attended Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he competed in three athletic endeavors. track, basketball and soccer. However, he was known for his role on the basketball and soccer teams, excelling in both sports and even leading his team to the first Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) championship, breaking a 24-year curse.
Although he broke his wrist in the 2nd game of his junior season that doesn’t stop him from earning 13-1 points and winning the OSSAA 5A championship for his school soccer team. The feat earned him multiple awards, including the All-State Defensive Back Awards and the All-State Class 5A Wide Receiver Awards. Basketball games were not left out in his championship quest; As he also did exceptionally well on the team that was named second-team All-Tournament and took home a basketball championship title in 2011.
As a sprinter, Tyler Lockett clinched the region’s title for Booker T. Washington in the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.85 seconds, while his finishing times of 10.95 and 21.90 seconds were enough to take him to the Class 5A finals to secure third place.
With those wonderful mind-blowing records and great ratings from Rival.com , Scout.com , and ESPN.com , young Tyler Lockett headed to Kansas State University in 2011 on an athletic scholarship where he would eventually pursue soccer as his solo sport in keeping with his family tradition chose. His father Kevin Lockette and uncle Aaron had played football themselves back then. His father was a big receiver for the Wildcats, but left school with a record that was eventually broken by his son, Tyler.
Despite his inability to play his last 3 games, he was still named Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year, a second-team All-Big 12 Selection for kickoff, return and punt return, and also received an honorable mention as a wide receiver. As if that wasn’t enough, the sports news, Walter Camp Football Foundation, CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated hace him as the first-team, All-American and second-team All-American, as well as the NCCA All-American and the list goes on.
His performances and heroics on the court were his last year was no exception as he entered the senior season in the preseason All-Big 12 Selection with numerous other awards and recognitions. He finished his last season with a record 249 receptions for 3,710 yards and 29 touchdowns; with 77 kickoff returns for 2,196 yards and 4 touchdowns. His punts were recorded as 32 punt returns for 488 yards and 2 touchdowns while his rush was 22 for 192 yards and totaled 6 collegiate career tackles.
In addition, the talented sportsman has booked a total of 6,586 career all-yards yards occupying the Big 12 Conference, is the nation’s leader and breaks his father’s long-standing record of 217 catches and 3,032 yards, setting 17 additional records over his accomplishments line up at school, celebrating his glorious end to a successful varsity football career in 2015 before signing up for his 2015 National Football League draft.
His NFL career
His selection was melodramatic; the Seahawks had to trade some of their pick players with the Washington Redskin to earn Tyler Lockett’s service during the 2015 NFL Round 3 selection. The selection turned out to be a good decision for the franchise. The talented return specialist started his rookie season on strong stats when he came up with 103-yard kicks and a touchdown in his first NFL game against the Denver Broncos in a preseason game. In his regular first game of the season, he had a record 57 yard punt and A touchdown against the St. Louis Rams. He later set a new franchise record for the team with his 105-yard kick return in his 3rd week of the regular season.
His outstanding field performance has earned him many awards such as the NFC Special Teams Player, Joey Galloway Awards among others. He continued into his rookie season to rack up multiple touchdowns and amazing stats on his yards and punt/kicks returns. He finished the rookie season with a record 759 all-purpose yards and won the NFC Special Team Player title (back-to-back) as Second Player to Tamarick Vanover in 1995.
He also became the 2nd rookie to receive 5 touchdowns, punt return touchdowns/kickoff touchdowns after Gale Sayers. He was later named the only rookie first team by the Associated Press All-Pro while he was selected to the NFL All-Rookie Team by the Pro-Football Writers Association along with teammate Thomas Rawls in 2015. He was a wide receiver, punt returner and Kickoff returner ending the rookie season beautifully.
His 2016 season was not a flop for him, as his team’s longest streak that season included 114 rushing yards and 75 rushing touchdown yards. He was injured by a bud later that season, which saw him undergo corrective surgery on his tibia and fibula at week 16. He was first mentioned by the All-Pro Second Team in his 2017 season. Statistics were released for 3,266 yards return, 137 receptions for 192 yard rushes, and 1,816 yards and 13 touchdowns, earning him his second All-Pro Second Team honor brought in.
So far in the 2018 season, his contract with The Seahawks has been renewed for another 3 years, with a prize purse of $31.8 million. He stayed focused and already has 38 receptions for 554 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns while his fantasy point is 102.4 in all 10 games played with the season. By the end of his career, his overall NFL career stats have risen to 175 receptions for 2,370 receiving yards and 16 raising touchdowns while averaging 21 points and 379.2 fantasy points in all 57 games played.
His family
The amazing soccer star is the son of Kevin Lockett and Nicole Edwards and he is the eldest of three younger brothers; Sterling Lockett and a group of twins, Jacob and Jordan Lockett. He has a wealthy family that draws on their athletic ability and character value system, and they are well-known athletes with a rich history.
His mother Nicole Edwards became a sprinter with sheer tenacity for success that made her one of the greatest sprinters his grandfather John Lockett ever coached in the ’90s. His father, on the other hand, was very active in the games of basketball and soccer at Booker T. Washington and at Kansas State University, where he set five records as the leading receiver on the varsity soccer team in the ’90s before embarking on mining professional acting . He was drafted 2nd round in the 1997 NFL draft as a 47th overall pick for the Kansas Chiefs and went on to play football for 3 other franchises before retiring from football in 2003 with the New York Jets.
His grandparents, John and Beatrice Lockett, were petroleum engineers who over the years had instilled the right values in their children and grandchildren to create standards they could live by both on and off the field. His grandfather was a good athlete from a young age and played basketball on a scholarship to St. Augustine University. He later had a year-long taste of football before a knee injury drew him to war.
His grandparents have taken the long drives for more than 20 years to actively support their sons Kevin and younger brother Aaron, who happens to be Tyler’s uncle and also their grandson Tyler, as they build the family history at their Tulsa home.
height and weight
Tyler Lockett stands shoulder-to-shoulder with teammate and colleague Doug Baldwin Jr. at 5’7″, his frame being properly supported by a weight of 83 kg.