Jerramy Stevens will be a free agent at the end of the season, and the Seahawks should look elsewhere to fill his spot on the roster. Jerramy Stevens is a jerk, a loser, and an inconsistent performer. Mike Holmgren drafted Stevens and fellow low-character extraordinaire Koren Robinson with first round picks, but those guys are not the type of players Tim Ruskell likes. We're stuck with Stevens for the rest of this year, but let's hope we get someone better in 2007.
Daniel Graham (New England) and Eric Johnson (San Francisco) are both unrestricted free agents at the end of the year as well. Let's hope the Seahawks go for one or both of those high character players. Both of them made touchdown catches at least as nice as Stevens' in the past two weeks without dropping other catchable passes. Both guys are more consistent than Stevens, and they play hard and intelligently - not to mention that both excel at blocking as well as receiving.
Graham and Johnson have produced as well as Stevens so far in their careers in catches and yards as well. Stevens has amassed 116 catches for 1,297 yards and 14 touchdowns over his first 5 seasons in 66 games. Daniel Graham, also drafted in 2002, has 110 catches for 1,296 yards and 17 touchdowns in 58 games. He also has done a great job blocking and has two Super Bowl rings with the Patriots. Eric Johnson has been in the league one more season, but has missed two full seasons with injuries. In 55 career games over the four season he has played, the Yale alumnus has 190 grabs for 1,790 yards with 7 touchdowns for bad 49ers teams.
Stevens career highs were last year with 45 catches and 5 touchdowns. Graham had a 7-touchdown season in 2004, and Eric Johnson had an 82-catch season in 2004. After five years in the league, it is time to stop talking about Stevens potential and start looking at his actual production. The Seahawks need a quality tight end that can block and not drop catchable passes. It would also be nice to have a tight end that doesn't cost the team points with stupid penalties and dropped balls in the endzone. Stevens is a net negative.
If you do not understand why I think Stevens is such a piece of crap, then read the following rundown of Jerramy Stevens' escapades. Jerramy Stevens was charged with hitting a man with a baseball bat and breaking his jaw in June 1998, and then tested positive for marijuana while awaiting a court date. He spent three weeks in jail. So, maybe you want to give the 19 year-old a pass for some bad decisions, but fast-forward two years to June 2000, when Jerramy Stevens was accussed of drugging and raping a 19-year-old girl. The charges did not stick, but that type of behavior fits with Stevens subsequent actions.
Eleven months later, Jerramy Stevens was back at it again. In May 2001, Jerramy Stevens was charged with a hit-and-run after crashing his truck into a retirement home knocking a dresser onto the bed of a sleeping 92-year-old woman. Stevens was positively identified by a witness living above the woman. His truck was also found with front end damage and a flat tire, but Stevens denied knowing who was driving his truck. According to the witness, he fell down a couple of times while trying to get his truck out of the shrubs and used some books under his tires for leverage before successfully fleeing the scene. Remember, all of this took place in Seattle or Olympia before Stevens was drafted by Mike Holmgren and the Seattle Seahawks.
May and June are not exactly the best months for Stevens who managed to avoid incident in 2002 after being drafted, but did not do so well in 2003 when Stevens was charged with drunken driving in May and sentenced to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service in June. Stevens had six moving violations since July the year before (in 10 months). That gives Stevens a nice rap sheet of at least accusations of assault, drug use, rape, hit-and-run, and drunk driving. He is also an underachiever and inconsistent performer on the field. Is that the type of person and player the Seahawks should give a big free agent contract?
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