The Seattle Seahawks enter the offseason will a great deal of free agents that either need to be replaced or re-signed. They also don’t have a ton of salary cap space to do so.
Luckily, not all tips into free agency are created equal. The Seahawks are almost guaranteed to get 12 players back if they want them.
Restricted Free Agents
Players with exactly three years of service time enter the offseason as restricted free agents. For them, the offseason comes with a pile of rules that are tough to describe in a coherent way.
First, the team must decide which of 3 levels of contract tenders to offer the player.