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The Seattle Seahawks are putting 29-year-old quarterback Drew Lock under center for their Week 2 road game against the NFC West-rival Arizona Cardinals (Sunday afternoon at 4:25 p.m. ET on FOX), as starter Sam Darnold is nursing a chest injury he suffered in their Week 1 win at the New England Patriots.
Here are five things you should know about Lock:
Drew Lock pitched for the Missouri Tigers.
Serving as the Tigers’ starting quarterback from 2016-18 – and being part of the program from 2015-18 – Lock averaged 3,620.3 passing yards, 31.7 passing yards, 10.3 interceptions and a 148.7 passer rating per season during that 5.8 passer span while completing 4% of his passes. Most importantly, Lock led the SEC with 3,964 passing yards, 44 touchdowns and a 165.7 passer rating in 2017. Granted, he also led the conference with 13 interceptions. Missouri appeared in a bowl game with Lock in 2017 and 2018.
Long before the Super Bowl, there was Mizzou and the Liberty Bowl. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
Lock is second in Missouri history with 12,193 passing yards and 99 touchdowns.
Drew Lock was part of the Broncos’ QB Carousel
Between Peyton Manning’s final season (2015) and Russell Wilson’s first season with the franchise (2022) — we’ll review that soon — 11 different players started at quarterback for the Denver Broncos. Lock was one of those 11 players.
Denver selected Lock with the No. 42 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, with him starting a combined 21 games from 2019-21. Lock was the team’s leading quarterback in 2020, throwing for 2,933 yards, 16 touchdowns and 15 interceptions in 13 starts while posting a 75.4 passer rating and completing 57.3% of his passes. He also rushed for 160 yards and three touchdowns.
So why did Denver’s 2019 second-round pick only play three seasons for the team?
Drew Lock was in Russell Wilson’s Blockbuster
Lock was part of one of the biggest trades in NFL history.
In March 2022, the Broncos traded Lock, Noah Fant, defensive end Shelby Harris, two first-round picks, two second-round picks and a fifth-rounder to the Seahawks for star quarterback and then nine-time Pro Bowler Russell Wilson and a fourth-round pick.
Consecutive game of Drew Lock’s career
The New York Giants entered their Week 17 homestand against the Indianapolis Colts with the worst record in the NFL and two losses away from the No. 1 in the 2025 NFL Draft. Not on Lock’s watch.
After spending most of the 2024 season as the team’s backup to Daniel Jones, Lock made five starts after New York released Jones after a 2–8 start, with Lock’s fourth start possibly the best of his career and one of the best in Giants history. In what was a 45-33 win for the Giants, Lock threw for 309 yards, four touchdowns and zero interceptions while posting a career-high 155.3 passer rating—it was the third-highest single-game passer rating in Giants history—completing 73.9% of his passes for 1.3 and 17 of .
The Giants went on to pick third overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. That being said, it could be argued that it worked for New York, who selected Penn State Nittany Lions linebacker Abdul Carter with the no. Dart and the Giants opened the 2026 season with a home win over the Dallas Cowboys, with the second-year quarterback throwing for 230 yards and three touchdowns, posting a 134.2 passer rating and completing 79.3% of his passes (23 of 29) in the win.
This is Drew Lock’s second stint in Seattle
Of course, Lock landed in Seattle in 2022 and later playing one season for the Giants makes his presence with the Seahawks in 2026 his second act with the franchise.
Act 1 got off to a bumpy start for Lock, who lost a quarterback battle to Geno Smith in 2022, with Smith set to be the team’s starting quarterback from 2022-24. With that said, Lock made two starts for the Seahawks in 2023, highlighted by hitting wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a go-ahead and eventual game-winning 29-yard pass with 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter of a Week 15 game against the Philadelphia Football Eagles on Monday.
As for now, Lock played all but the opening series in Seattle’s Week 1 win over New England, throwing for 187 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions while posting a 113.3 passer rating and completing 72.7% of his passes (16 of 22). Last year, Lock appeared in five regular season games and one playoff game for the Seahawks, but he never made a start.
Sunday will mark Lock’s 29th NFL start.
