Less than four weeks remain until the official start of the 2022 NFL League Year on March 16, and teams across the league, including the Seattle Seahawks, are looking at how they can retain the key players on their roster set to be unrestricted free agents. As teams continue to rebuild their financial and cap positions after the drop in the salary cap following the mostly fanless 2020 COVID season, some teams may dip into a relatively new tool in order to keep their own free agents around.
Specifically, when the league and union agreed to the most recent collective bargaining agreement in the spring of 2020, they included a feature known as the Four-Year Qualifying Contract.