The Seahawks have already re-signed Jaxon Smith-Njigba, with corner Devon Witherspoon the next in line.
The Seattle Seahawks' offseason, one could say, has been fine, with the Super Bowl champs appearing content with their work.
Seattle said goodbye to several key players and has brought in rotational players on cheap deals.
Of course, there was a reason for that.
Perhaps the biggest one was the contract extensions the front office was going to have to throw out on two stars.
One was Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who signed a four-year, $168.6 million deal to make him the highest-paid receiver in football.
And the other is for corner Devon Witherspoon.
We know that JSN is at the top of the market for receivers, but could Witherspoon follow him?
Bryce Coutts of The Hawks Eye podcast was joined by Seahawksdraftblog.com contributor Curtis Allen to talk about what a Witherspoon extension could look like.
“In the cornerback market, there’s just not as much top-line contracts coming up," Allen said. "The next biggest one is Christian Gonzalez. That could happen this year, it could happen next year. So really, there’s not a whole lot else. There’s the two guys in Philly, Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell, but that’s like 2028. So there isn’t like, okay, we’ve got to get ahead of a huge market bump at this point.
“So, this is like a four-year, $124 million that Trent McDuffie got so 31 million a year. I could see the [Seahawks] doing something like this, but also maybe a three-year $100 million deal. Basically, it would be 2028, 2029, and 2030, and then he’d be a free agent in 2031.”
The big question will be whether the Seahawks will make Witherspoon the highest-paid corner in football?
As Allen states, Trent McDuffie is the highest-paid right now, and we imagine that McDuffie's deal will be the starting point in negotiations.
We have seen players sometimes go a little past the highest-paid player, other times the player wants to blow it out of the water.
So, what Witherspoon and his agent wants will be fascinating to see, but I can't see anything less than McDuffie at $31 million APY.
Will the Seahawks be fine with having two players on their roster who are the highest-paid at the position? That is what general manager John Schneider has to figure out.
But the Seahawks' offseason plan appears to be to re-sign their own, so we wait to see what a Witherspoon extension looks like.
Either way, it's going to be expensive.