Tuesday Field Gulls took a look at how the Seattle Seahawks have spent over $100M of cap space on one year contracts from 2017 through 2022, without a whole lot of return to show for it. Many of those one year contracts went to players who did not perform poorly, but who may have prevented younger players stuck behind them on the depth chart from seeing the field and gaining experience.
Whether or not that led to a cycle of one year contracts preventing younger players from playing, what is known is that the team came in below average in terms of the percentage of snaps played during the 2021 season came from players originally drafted and developed by the team.