Could Devon Witherspoon’s Seahawks Extension Redefine NFL Contracts?

“And then just like JSN in 2027, they gain a bunch of cap room because the fifth-year option was so expensive and then this has the effect of sort of watering things down a little bit with the issue of keeping the base salary down. So they pick up in essence almost $8 million and change almost $9 million in 2027. So it’s very good. And then you know you’re looking at it through the years—when it gets really hairy is 2030.”

Keep in mind that wide receiver and cornerback markets are not the same, as Allen notes. He has another alternative contract that could happen.

“In the cornerback market, there’s just not as much top-line contracts coming up. I mean, the next biggest one is Christian Gonzalez. And so that that could happen this year, it could happen next year. So really, there’s not a whole lot else. There’s the two guys in Philly, Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell, but that’s like 2028. So there isn’t like, okay, we’ve got to get ahead of a huge market bump at this point.

“So, this is like a four-year, $124 million that Trent McDuffie got so 31 million a year. I could see the [Seahawks] doing something like this, but also maybe a three-year $100 million deal. Um, something. Basically it would be 2028, 2029, and 2030 and then he’d be a free agent in 2031.