What are the Seatle Seahawks options for taming the salary cap? – Seattle sport

Since Seattle Seyhox seems to build a championship athlete at Mike McDonald, they are entering a major extra -season without making significant solutions.

Many of these decisions stem from their current situation of salary limitation.

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According to the salary website Spotrac.com, Seahawks is currently expected to be $ 11.3 million above the cap in 2025, based on their top 51 players in terms of CAP strikes. This ranks as the fifth worst situation in the league.

Seattle has already begun the process of clearing caps, reporting that he has vacated about $ 14 million dollars for caps by restructuring the contract of star protective liner Leonard Williams. But since one of the seven teams was still expected to be above the cap, a lot more work should be done.

Not only should Seahawks have to be under the cap when the year of the New League starts on March 12, but they also need extra space until that date to sign players in a free agency.

Michael Giniti, co -founder and editor of Spotrac.com, joined Wyman and Bob in Seattle on Monday to discuss the situation with Seahawks caps. Giniti says this is one of the most challenging situations in which the franchise has participated since General Manager John Schneider arrived in 2010.

“This is one of the early years in which I think they had a real, real struggle to return to zero here with their wage cap,” Giniti said. “And it happens. This is a situation of pouring and flow. … But it will be one of the more aggressive disadvantages that this team had to go through with respect to their finances. “

“It may be a whole bag of everything”

The good news for Schneider & Co.? There are many ways to release the space of the caps.

Seahawks can clean up $ 17 million in caps by launching a wide receiver of veteran Tyler Locket, whose declining production and a huge amount of $ 30,895 million make it a potential victim of a cap.

Other possible victims of Seattle caps include a defensive end Dre’Mont Jones ($ 16.51 million restriction savings if they were launched after June), a narrow near Noah Fant ($ 8.91 million for restriction savings), safety) Rayshawn Jenkins ($ 5.28 million) and protective projectile Roy Robertson-Haris ($ 6.6 million).

Seahawks could also free up the space of the caps by reaching extensions with the Defender Geno Smith and Star Wideout DK Metcalf, which will spread its captures with caps in future years. Smith’s hit for 2025 is currently $ 44.5 million and Metcalfe is $ 31.875 million. Both remain one year on their current contracts.

Seattle could even decide to trade a player like Metcalfe, as ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler wrote last month.

“I think in this case you can have a little of anything,” Giniti said. “Geno can expand. DK can be traded. Tyler can be released. Dre’mont can be restructured. It can be a whole bag of anything out of season for this Seattle team. And certainly this process has already started with Leonard Williams. “

In addition, Seahawks have some interesting decisions to make in terms of their talented NFL 2022 class. This group, which is now eligible for one -year extension left to their rookie, has produced half a dozen starters in the left side of Charles Cross, right supply Abraham Lucas, running back Kenneth Walker III, external leader Boy Mafe, Safety Kobi Bryant and Riq Woolen angle.

With so many big solutions, the next few months will be massively important for the Seahawks franchise trajectory. But as Giniti said, Schneider & Co. They have a strong experience.

“They are close to the top of where I would say that things have gone in terms of adjustment, change, they don’t go too much with these things to delay the cap we are talking about and take it in small doses,” said Giniti. “I like the fact that every two to three years there is talk of prolonging players and that they do not go into long conditions like some other teams that are something stuck in the mud.

“This deal with Williams was a nice start,” he added. “… But there are probably two or three significant moves just to prepare for March 12 – just to get into a situation where you are active in a free agency and then for sure to think about signing the draft on the road S “

Listen to the full conversation of Wyman and Bob with Michael Giniti of Spotrac in the podcast of this relationship or in the player near the top of this post. Set up to Wyman and Bob Weeldays from 2:00 pm on Seattle Sport or find a podcast in the Said Sports App.

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