Field Gulls
The Seahawks don’t have any salary cap issues entering the draft.
By this time next month the Seattle Seahawks will have wrapped up their 2025 NFL Draft and focused on signing undrafted free agents. With
Now that the Cooper Kupp, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Sam Darnold contracts (along with a few other deals) are finally in OverTheCap’s system, we have a clearer picture as far as the Seahawks’ current cap space. Seattle has over $36 million in available cap space... sort of.
I say “sort of” because we still have three free agent signings unaccounted for in terms of their contracts:
These are all highly likely going to be minimum-salary contracts. Minimum salaries are calculated based on number of credited seasons, in which case these would be the presumptive one-year contracts:
We’re in the offseason, so only the top 51 cap charges count toward the cap, in which case all three salaries would qualify and push a trio of $1,030,000 contracts out of the top 51. It’s only a $545,000 difference, but enough to lower Seattle’s cap room a smidge. They’ll also have to set aside money for their incoming draft class, but the Seahawks are living comfortably on that front and definitely have the projected $4.1 million in cap space to sign their class.
Unless the Seahawks make some drastic move any time soon, Seattle won’t have to sweat out pulling any levers or making other maneuvers to open up more space. The only real thing to keep an eye on is whether or not we see the Seahawks get to work on extending players from the 2022 class, most notably left tackle Charles Cross and edge rusher Boye Mafe.
