KIRKLAND, Wash. — It’s an off month from Seattle Seahawks coaching camp in early August, however Tyler Lockett is at paintings.

His place of job in this Wednesday afternoon isn’t the group’s apply facility however a four-bedroom, 3½-bath house situated 20 mins up the street. It’s unutilized development, freshly staged and nearly able to collision the marketplace.

Lockett is there as a result of his task is to promote it.

Sure, the huge receiver with 60 profession touchdowns and greater than $70 million in on-field income is now an actual property agent in his extra future, with a license in two states and a number of other multimillion buck transactions below his belt.

Lockett arrives on the Kirkland house proper next stagers end putting in place the furniture and offers a excursion. He begins within the kitchen, the place he notes the fashionable white cupboards and imagines aloud what number of bar stools the counter may seat. Nearest is the completed basement, whole with a wine refrigerator and a kitchenette within the dwelling subject.

“This can be whatever it is that you want it to be,” Lockett says. “It could be your man cave. It could be your woman cave.”

At the govern flooring, he touts the entire herbal sunny bright thru a massive hallway window out of doors of the principle bed room. Up at the roof, he presentations off the deck with the west-facing view, which he thinks shall be some of the space’s largest promoting issues. It’ll ultimately be indexed for a negligible below $3.3 million.

“We’re still kind of talking about what that’s going to look like as we continue to do the CMA [comparative market analysis] to be able to see what some of these other homes have gone for,” Lockett says. “The one thing about real estate that I tell people is that the buyers are going to determine how much the house is [worth]. The buyers are going to determine the market. That’s just how it goes.”

Casually speaking about CMAs, ceramic tile flooring, soaker tubs and sq. photos may pitch unusual coming from maximum NFL avid gamers. However that is Lockett, whose pursuits and abilities span way past soccer.

He’s a printed creator, liberating a reserve of poems referred to as “Reflection” in 2019, and has carried out his paintings in spoken-word mode. He received an Emmy award in 2022 for his NFL Community trait at the 1921 Dull Wall Boulevard bloodbath in his fatherland of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been the Seahawks’ nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Guy of the Past Award the while two seasons.

Now, their 31-year-old Renaissance guy is getting a head get started on what he cries his “second career” as he continues to excel at his month task.

Heading into Monday night time’s sport in opposition to the Pristine York Giants (8:15 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN), Lockett has 13 catches for 103 yards and 2 touchdowns for the 2-1 Seahawks, together with the successful rating in additional time in opposition to the Detroit Lions in Time 2.

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“Just for him to be able to do that and balance football and not miss a beat on the football field just speaks volumes of the type of person he is, the type of player he is,” mentioned teammate DK Metcalf, who rented Lockett to search out him the house he not too long ago purchased. “He’s taking it very seriously. That’s all he wants to talk about on the side when we’re not talking about football. I’m pretty sure I can get my real estate license with as many conversations as we’ve had.

“He’s simply all the time taking a look to increase himself, and that is a technique of doing it.”

THE SEEDS OF Lockett’s real estate career were planted after he signed his first extension with the Seahawks in 2018. He started watching HGTV while preparing to buy his first home, and his interest was piqued.

“I simply more or less went into it,” he said.

Early in the 2022 offseason, Lockett completed the 90 hours of online education required for prospective real estate brokers in Washington state, passed the test in February and became licensed in March. He later completed another 180 hours of coursework and that September got his license in Texas, where he spends much of the offseason. But by then Lockett was already off and running in Washington at Keller Williams Eastside, with business cards and all.

And business is booming.

Lockett has been a part of seven transactions totaling nearly $17 million in combined sales volume, with the Kirkland home still on the market and other properties about to be listed. This past spring, his team at Keller Williams, Liv N Serve Real Estate, became the official realtor of the Seahawks. It’s a rare — if not unheard of — sponsorship deal between a team and one of its players (the two worked with the NFL to ensure the partnership was in accordance with the league’s salary cap rules).

Lockett represents homebuyers and sellers, NFL players and regular folks alike. He has also ventured into commercial real estate, working with a buyer on the purchase of an apartment building in Aberdeen, Washington, last year. He’s on the verge of listing another commercial property in Oregon.

“The most important factor in relation to actual property is the relationships, as a result of that’s what helps to keep a shopper on the finish of the month,” Lockett said. “In each courting, you’ve were given to have stunning communique, and also you’ve were given to have whole and brutal honesty, and infrequently that’s the toughest phase. … They’ve this concept of, ‘That is what this space goes to be [sold] for and that is all I’m keen to simply accept.’ And also you’ve were given to discover ways to now not most effective be capable to communicate them ill or communicate them up, however meet them the place they’re at and be in contact with them to a degree the place most effective they’d perceive.

“It’s kind of like when you’re voted captain. You’ve got to be able to do that same thing with your teammates.”

In some instances, the ones two worlds have met. Lockett, then again, didn’t get the checklist for Russell Wilson’s lakefront mansion, which collision the marketplace for a fab $28 million next the quarterback used to be traded from Seattle to the Denver Broncos closing offseason.

“They always say don’t go into business with your friends,” Lockett mentioned with amusing when requested about now not getting rented by means of Wilson, “so I’d rather keep our friendship how it is.”

When Lockett does paintings with pals within the NFL, he prefers to constitute them most effective as patrons. That avoids any money-related awkwardness, as a result of brokers’ commissions — most often 3% to every aspect within the climate of Washington — are paid by means of the vendor.

Lockett and a spouse at Keller Williams toured Seattle-area properties with Metcalf over the offseason sooner than they discovered one in the summertime. Metcalf referred to as it a “great” enjoy and mentioned his monetary marketing consultant got here away inspired with Lockett’s professionalism.

“He was like, ‘Bro, Tyler’s very thorough with his work,'” Metcalf mentioned. “I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s Lock, day in and day out.’ So he left a good impression on a lot of people.”

Along with Metcalf, Lockett helped NFL protection and previous teammate Adrian Colbert discover a house in Texas within the spring. Lockett and considered one of his companions at Keller Williams had closed on a apartment within the Seattle suburb of Bellevue the month sooner than he toured the within reach Kirkland house in August.

“That’s the best part,” he mentioned, “just being able to see your buyer with the keys. Or your seller happy that they were able to get a lot of that stuff off their backs.”

HOW DOES LOCKETT juggle actual property and soccer?

“It’s not hard,” he mentioned.

But it surely does require future control and a few teamwork, particularly when he’s moonlighting all the way through the season.

Lockett co-lists some homes — just like the Kirkland house — with any other agent at Keller Williams, Danny Nunes, which splits the paintings (and the fee). Tyler helps to keep an in depth checklist of the place every of his purchasers are at within the purchasing or promoting procedure, which is helping him keep on govern of his agenda and paintings forward. As soon as a component is pending, he can incline on transaction coordinators to assistance with bureaucracy and alternative hurdles sooner than latter.

The newly married Lockett estimates that 70% of his month is spent on soccer, occasion actual property takes up any other 15% to twenty%. That may ruthless knocking out some paintings all the way through a split at group headquarters.

“During training camp, lunchtime, he’s on Zoom calls, he’s cold calling people trying to drum up business,” Nunes mentioned. “So it’s not just like going to his teammates and helping them out. … He’ll be in the locker room after the game and he’ll be texting about a deal. I’ll be like, ‘Pay attention to football.’ But he has time for it all.”

Lockett is aware of the optics of an NFL participant devoting future to one thing alternative than the sport may now not take a seat neatly with some, however he hasn’t ever been the stick-to-football sort.

“The hardest part about being able to start your second career is everybody is always holding you to that one career,” he mentioned. “And because there’s so many things that come … with this game of football, people always say you only need to focus on this, if you’re not doing good it’s because you’re doing all this other type of stuff. But we have dreams, too, and we have things that we want to accomplish … not only for ourselves but our families and our future families as well.”

Status at the roof of the Kirkland house, Lockett made it sunlit that occasion he’s surroundings himself up for age next soccer, he isn’t at the verge of resignation. Why would he be? Next this season, he’ll have two years and more or less $34 million residue at the $69 million extension he signed in 2021.

And he’s nonetheless on the govern of his sport. Lockett has reached 1,000 yards in every of the while 4 seasons next arising simply shy of that mark (965) in 2018. His 47 receiving touchdowns since nearest are tie for 5th maximum within the NFL. He’s latter in on turning into the franchise’s second-leading receiver at the back of Steve Largent in each catches and receiving yards.

“For a real estate agent, I think he’s doing a great job at playing wide receiver,” quarterback Geno Smith quipped past due closing season.

That’s the type of popularity Lockett is next.

“You have to fight through so much just to be able to show people you’re more than a football player,” he mentioned. “Going into this year, I’ve already been almost a year in, and now people see me as more than just a football player. They see me not as somebody trying to see what it’s like to be a realtor, but they see me actually as a realtor now.”