Schneider’s in the market of acquiring high picks for Sherman here, not giving them — plus Seattle’s All-Pro cover man — away to create holes at both of the Seahawks’ cornerback spots this preseason.
Then there’s Sherman’s contract. It has two years remaining on the four-year, $56 million extension he signed in 2014. Sherman’s 2017 base pay of $11,431,000 is fully guaranteed. His salary-cap charge for this year is $13.63 million.
That would take up half or more of the cap space currently available for all but eight teams. The four that could afford him the most are the 49ers, Browns, Jaguars and Titans. Those four teams combined to go 15-49 last season.
Think Sherman would want a deal to San Francisco, Cleveland, Jacksonville or Tennessee? At age 29? At age 109?
We don’t, either.
But next year? Sherman’s so-called “dead money,” the cost against the cap should the Seahawks cut him loose, goes from $15.8 million to $2.2 million, and his scheduled base pay of $11 million is not guaranteed. That would be the time the Seahawks would have the most leverage for a rich deal. They’d have more competitive offers to trade him, to avoid him playing a final year of his contract at age 30. They’d know that unlike other potential suitors Seattle wasn’t going to give him another extension, at least not for anywhere near the cash he got in his last one.
Oh, yes, Sherman knows that in 2018 the Seahawks can cut him for just that $2 million cap charge, with an attractive cap savings of $11 million. That alone could be why he is searching for his way out of Seattle now, well before that could happen.
As Sherman said last week on ESPN: “It’s a business.”
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