2018 Seahawks Depth Chart, Roster Moves, Cap Position

[KitsapGuy]

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[jammerhawk]

Updating soon

 

[Danny Darko]

Don't forget Sherm for Dez

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AdamScheftard/status/971455273213636609[/tweet]

Edit: the twitter account reporting that as Adam Looks fake to me... doesn't mean it's not true but the one sighted as twitter top news shows 500 followers.

 

[KitsapGuy]

Don't forget Sherm for Dez

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AdamScheftard/status/971455273213636609[/tweet]

Fake account.

 

[toffee]

Bennett is gone, Sherman is following, Jimmy may be next. Let's assume without Bennett, Sherman, Jimmy, what will our cap be? How much do we have to sign our next corp of players?

 

[jammerhawk]

News, and fake news.

Will hold off on the Sheman report until more is known.

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Here it goes: Seahawks are trading DE Michael Bennett and a seventh-round pick to Eagles for a fifth-round pick and WR Marcus Johnson, sources tell ESPN.

updated now

 

[jammerhawk]

Bennett is gone, Sherman is following, Jimmy may be next. Let's assume without Bennett, Sherman, Jimmy, what will our cap be? How much do we have to sign our next corp of players?

The team will get about $2.2 mill back for Bennett, $11 mil for Sherman and zip for Graham who is a FA.

 

[original poster]

Bennett is gone, Sherman is following, Jimmy may be next. Let's assume without Bennett, Sherman, Jimmy, what will our cap be? How much do we have to sign our next corp of players?

The team will get about $2.2 mill back for Bennett, $11 mil for Sherman and zip for Graham who is a FA.

This.

Add in Lane and Avril and I make the cap to sit at $38,172,600.

 

[toffee]

Bennett is gone, Sherman is following, Jimmy may be next. Let's assume without Bennett, Sherman, Jimmy, what will our cap be? How much do we have to sign our next corp of players?

The team will get about $2.2 mill back for Bennett, $11 mil for Sherman and zip for Graham who is a FA.

This.

Add in Lane and Avril and I make the cap to sit at $38,172,600.

$38mil, and still lacking in draft picks. Feeling like there will be more trades, to free up more or get more picks. Pete's rebuilding for sure.

 

[chris98251]

We have a couple of 7th's and like 4 5th's I will drink the 5ths if that's how were going to rebuild, hell maybe trade back and pick up 2 4ths and 2 more 5ths

There is going to be a run on Big Screens and Remotes this fall. Better start a Pemedic account now.

 

[jammerhawk]

Hate the thought of retuning to broken TV's courtesy of yet another blown lead/ blown coverage but nothing is forever in the NFL.

RS may reconsider his position, most of $11 milion is still an awful lot of money to leave on the table.

 

[original poster]

We have a couple of 7th's and like 4 5th's I will drink the 5ths if that's how were going to rebuild, hell maybe trade back and pick up 2 4ths and 2 more 5ths

There is going to be a run on Big Screens and Remotes this fall. Better start a Pemedic account now.

Good point about the 4 5th's!

 

[jammerhawk]

Updated for Sherman and Lane

 

[Seahawkfan80]

We have a couple of 7th's and like 4 5th's I will drink the 5ths if that's how were going to rebuild, hell maybe trade back and pick up 2 4ths and 2 more 5ths

There is going to be a run on Big Screens and Remotes this fall. Better start a Pemedic account now.

Good point about the 4 5th's!

Can we trade 2 7ths for a 5th too?? we want more 5ths...

 

[A-Dog]

OTC is updated for Bennett, Sherm, and Lane, and 2018 cap space is up to $30,492,600

Using the calculator, if we also cut Avril, Thorpe, and Ryan, 2018 cap space goes up to $41,467,600 (and up to a whopping $109,008,510 in 2019 if we do that and cut Kam after this season).

We can get 2018 cap space up to $53,927,600 by also converting the 2018 salaries for Russ and Bobby in to bonuses.

In other words, Seattle now has a ton of cap space and flexibility if they want to make big signings this year and/or next. If P&J want to go out and sign, say, Richardson, Norwell, and ASJ, they have the cap flexibility to make it happen.

 

[jammerhawk]

As the present situation is developing, the Hawks now are set up to be players in FA. You have to wonder if they will be though as the comp. pick scheme set up with the one year deals will not favour that for the 2019 draft. If they are locked to preconception then about comp. picks then FA will be slow. It remains to be seen if there still won’t be other surprising player moves with present roster members, like Thomas, if the right trade partner(s) can be found. The picture as to the FO direction is still not in focus. Next week will tell us a great deal more, expect more surprises.

They now can certainly keep the guys they want and be in conversations for others. I’m unsure it will be necessary to cut Thorpe and Ryan and think if Avril is gone he will get a parting injury settlement so his number will be reduced by $1.5 million or so. You could be right about Avril, Thorpe, and Ryan though. It appears as if P Richardson will likely not be offered a deal by the team but I suppose that will in the end depend upon the strength of his market as will be the case with Sheldon Richardson.

Thorpe was thought to be a solid ST guy so I could see him staying depending on where his health is seen to be. The whole kicking game is certain to be under forward evaluation at each point of the process.

 

[jammerhawk]

I moved DeShawn Shead back to the roster as technically his contract for last season apparentl tolled. However, he will be released today so the news seems to indicate. He will likely be moved to releasedthis afternoon or whenever his release is announced.

I wonder if he is treated as a UFA for potential comp pick purposes when he is released. Does anyone know?

The motives for this release may be for less that altruistic reasons as Shead may have been able to argue that his contract should not have tolled and he was ready to return from PUP earlier. In the end I suppose that distinction won’t mean that much.

 

[original poster]

I moved DeShawn Shead back to the roster as technically his contract for last season apparentl tolled. However, he will be released today so the news seems to indicate. He will likely be moved to releasedthis afternoon or whenever his release is announced.

I wonder if he is treated as a UFA for potential comp pick purposes when he is released. Does anyone know?

The motives for this release may be for less that altruistic reasons as Shead may have been able to argue that his contract should not have tolled and he was ready to return from PUP earlier. In the end I suppose that distinction won’t mean that much.

He wouldn't be counted towards any comp picks unfortunately as he's being released.

The team have basically put him first before themselves in this situation.

 

[jammerhawk]

I suppose so, and expected that he wouldn’t count for a comp. pick.

As earlier indicated while this looks as if the team was just being nice to Shead, they avoid a complex arbitration and player unhappiness by real easing him despite the tolling of his contract.

 

[jammerhawk]

S- Bradley McDougald re-upped 3 years $13.95 Mil

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The Seahawks will keep one of their own free agents. They’ve agreed to terms on a three-year, $13.95 million deal with S Bradley McDougald, source says. He stepped into a starting role last year when Kam Chancellor went down. Chancellor’s future remains murky.
8:10 AM - 12 Mar 2018