Tennessee football: Vols TE Dominick Wood-Anderson signs with Seattle Seahawks

After not being taken in the 2020 NFL Draft, Tennessee football Volunteers tight end Dominick Wood-Anderson signed with the Seattle Seahawks.

The Seattle Seahawks proved that they value former Tennessee football players in the 2020 NFL Draft. First, they traded up to take Vols edge rusher Darrell Taylor in the second round. Then they signed Dominick Wood-Anderson as an undrafted free agent.

One of the five Vols invited to the combine, Wood-Anderson provides a unique size and skills set that makes him worthy of a look from an NFL program. After all, the guy is 6’4″ 261 pounds, has reasonable speed and is a complete tight end since he can block and receive.

It was simply due to a lack of stats with Tennessee football that his draft stock fell, as he only had 38 catches for 408 yards and three touchdowns in two years with the Vols. Still, he emerged as a tight end who could block this past year, which is why teams want to look at him. He announced his signing on Twitter.

Back in 2017, Wood-Anderson committed to the Vols just as Jeremy Pruitt took over. He chose them over Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide, and he scored the first touchdown of the Pruitt era on Rocky Top by catching a crucial fourth-down pass in the Vols’ 2018 opener against the West Virginia Mountaineers.

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However, with the change in offensive coordinators over the offseason, Wood-Anderson developed while his production went down. Tennessee football offensive coordinator Jim Chaney had to use him as a decoy more often than not, as he drew two and three defenders.

The result was his draft stock being wrecked. Signing with Seattle is a good situation for him, however, as he will join Taylor heading there. Pete Carroll clearly is willing to look at the talent of players overlooked in the draft, and Wood-Anderson provides that.

Whether or not Wood-Anderson works out as a draft pick remains to be seen. There are lots of unknowns surrounding him, more than many other picks from Tennessee football. However, he does provide a lot of potential given his physicality, so it’s likely he gets a good shot to surprise a lot of people.