Trade rumors are swirling around the Seahawks again. It seems to be a cottage industry these days. This time the rumor mill has returned to a possible trade of defensive end Frank Clark. Unlike the absolute idiocy of the trade rumors about Russell Wilson, these may be well-founded even though Seattle certainly doesn’t need to trade him. Nor will they get what they want for him.
As has been thoroughly documented, one of the key factors in Wilson’s record-breaking contract was the huge $65 million signing bonus. As Bob Condotta wrote in The Seattle Times, that enormous bonus actually helped the Seahawks cap space for 2019.