Tory Horton's rookie season is over before it started. Source reporting confirms surgery for a fractured shin, and that level of procedure ending a "promising rookie year" is about as unambiguous a season-ending designation as you'll see this time of year. This isn't a tweak or a wait-and-see hamstring situation — it's a fracture requiring surgical repair, and that typically comes with a lengthy, months-long recovery timeline that will bleed into the regular season even after Seattle's opener.

For draft prep purposes, Horton needs to come off your board entirely in redraft formats. There's no scenario where you should be spending a pick on a receiver who won't be active for meaningful stretches of the season, if at all. If you're in a dynasty or keeper league, he's a stash-and-forget at best — the talent and opportunity that made him a "promising" rookie name don't vanish, but you can't roster him with any expectation of 2024 production, and even next year is a question mark depending on how the recovery progresses.

Practically speaking, this also nudges the Seahawks' receiver room value up the board — expect Seattle's remaining pass-catchers to see incrementally more target competition and roster stability, so if you're drafting from that group, factor Horton's absence into your evaluation of the depth chart. Confidence here is high on the surgery and severity; the second source's "undetermined time" framing is just an earlier, softer read on the same story and doesn't change the actionable conclusion: drop or avoid Horton in season-long formats.