While the eyes and ears of Seahawks’ fans were understandably trained on what was happening locally when free agency began Thursday, a signing in Miami could prove to have significant impact on the future of one of Seattle’s most iconic players of the last decade — safety Kam Chancellor.
Chancellor is entering the final season of his contract, and the question of whether the Seahawks will offer him an extension has hovered over the off-season.
Not that there was any reason to think it would have happened yet, or anything to read into the fact that it hasn’t — Seattle has typically waited until after free agency, and often until after the draft, to sign extensions of its own players entering the final year of their deals.