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Jon Ryan to sign one-day contract, retire with Seahawks today

Ryan played for Seattle from 2008 to 2018, winning a Super Bowl in 2013.

Former Seahawks punter Jon Ryan intends to sign a one-day contract with the Seahawks today and officially retire as a member of the team.

Ryan played for Seattle from 2008 to 2018, winning a Super Bowl in 2013.

Ryan is responsible for one of the most memorable moments in franchise history. In the 2015 NFC title game against the Packers, he threw a touchdown pass on a fake field goal that sparked a rally to eventually win the game and advance to the Super Bowl.

After leaving Seattle Ryan put in one season with the Bills. Since then he’d been playing in the CFL, most recently with the Edmonton Elks in 2022.

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Lockett still offers far more value on the field for the Seahawks than he would get in a trade.

There was a point earlier this offseason when there was a case for the Seahawks to trade star wide receiver Tyler Lockett. For one thing, no team is deeper at the position than Seattle heading into the 2024 season. Additionally, Lockett will turn 32 years old in September and he had a contract that was practically screaming cut me or trade me.

However, once Lockett restructured his deal it no longer made sense. The Seahawks are now paying him a little less than $15 million total in base salary in that time – roughly half of what they would have if his former deal had stood. Also, Lockett’s new deal has only $4.66 million in guaranteed money this year. It’s probably worth mentioning that trading Lockett now would actually cost the team cap space rather than create more of it.

That hasn’t stopped some analysts from suggesting that Lockett should be dealt prior to or during the 2024 NFL draft, though. Apparently Lockett has seen some of them and when he spoke with the media yesterday he signed off by saying he doesn’t want to anymore.

Lockett clearly takes offense to the idea that he should be traded and he’s right. Even though he’s coming off a down-2023 season and likely to decline further Lockett still offers far more value on the field for the Seahawks than he would get in a trade.

While there are a lot of fans who suggest he could still get a third-rounder in return, the truth is that players with Lockett’s experience never net the same value as their original draft capital – especially not nine years after the fact. At best Seattle could get a sixth for Lockett, which just isn’t worth what they’d be giving up.

Having three great wide receivers and manufacturing opportunities for all of them is a good problem to have – and it’s something that Seattle should try to continue even after Lockett inevitably steps away.

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The Seattle Seahawks have added yet another assistant to head coach Mike Macdonald’s inaugural staff.

The Seattle Seahawks have added yet another assistant to head coach Mike Macdonald’s inaugural staff.

According to a report by Aaron Wilson, former Utah State quarterback Chuckie Keeton is joining the team as an offensive assistant. He had been working this offseason as the quarterbacks coach at Montana State.

This will be Keeton’s first coaching job at this level. He got his first coaching gig right out of college at Oregon State as a graduate assistant, followed by Utah State, then Texas Tech, then Utah State again as a running backs coach and last season he was at Marshall as an offensive analyst.

“Offensive assistant” is about as vague as it gets, but given his personal experience at the position plus his last job, we can probably assume he will be working with QBs coach Charles London, Geno Smith, Sam Howell and potentially any rookies the team adds during the 2024 NFL draft.

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Seahawks OL has NFL’s worst pass protection expectations in 2024

Panic never helps anything. That said, if the Seattle Seahawks don’t come out of the 2024 NFL draft with at least two high quality offensive line prospects it will be time to panic, because if there’s another team around the league that has a more desperate need for their interior offensive line they are certainly doing a good job hiding it.

Over the last couple of weeks Seattle has been linked to several different veteran free agent offensive linemen. So far the list includes Laken Tomlinson, Cody Whitehair, Greg Van Roten and Lucas Patrick. Trouble is even those names may be too rich for the team’s blood – they’re currently $1.5 million over the salary cap when you count the rookie class.

That’s why drafting OL well may be more critical this year than ever – which is saying something given how things went under Pete Carroll. Here’s more proof of just how dire the situation is.

According to this analysis from Ben Baldwin, the Seahawks have the lowest Pass Protection Expectations in the NFL this year (based on 2023 PFF grades). They’re in last place by a significant margin, too.

Not ideal. The best remedy is to target prospects who excel in pass blocking in the draft. For whatever reason Seattle has tended to gravitate towards better run blockers over the years. Now we will find out if that was a Pete Carroll thing or if Schneider was responsible.

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Seahawks worked out free agent offensive lineman Lucas Patrick

According to Aaron Wilson, on Monday the team worked out free agent interior lineman Lucas Patrick.

Last week the Seahawks brought in veteran guard Greg Van Roten for a visit and were also reported to be interested in a couple of other free agent iOL in Cody Whitehair and Laken Tomlinson. This week the work continues to find more options at the guard and center positions, which are arguably the weakest on paper in the NFL right now.

We can add another name to the list of veterans Seattle is taking a look at. According to Aaron Wilson, on Monday the team worked out free agent interior lineman Lucas Patrick, who spent last year with the Bears.

Patrick (6-foot-3, 313 pounds) played his college ball at Duke. Despite going undrafted, he has managed to appeared in 96 games at this level, including five years in Green Bay and two in Chicago.

For most of his career Patrick has been a guard, putting in time at both spots but this last season he was the starting center for the Bears. PFF wasn’t too keen on what he did, giving him a 50.5 overall grade (ranking 30 out of 36 qualifying centers) including a 40.6 grade in pass protection.

If Patrick does sign he could compete at any of the three interior positions, but right now left guard is the team’s most-desperate spot. While they do have some inexperienced options at right guard and center, they have exactly none with any NFL experience at left guard.

The Seahawks could use as many bodies as they can get right now for that offensive line but they simply may not have the dough to sign anybody at the moment.  According to the latest figures at Over the Cap, the team has less than $1.8 million in cap room. However, their effective cap space (including rookies) is still in the red.

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However, the greatest weakness of this roster continues to be a deal-breaker.

The Seahawks have some work to do in order to catch up with the elite teams around the NFL. While they managed to upset the Lions in Detroit, every other meeting with a real contender last season ended in disaster and embarrassment for Seattle. The best teams they faced were the 49ers and the Ravens, who beat them by a total of 96-32 in three games.

The first order of business is reshaping the roster to reflect a more modern approach to building a championship contender. Mike Clay’s annual ESPN unit rankings illustrates the problem for Seattle pretty well. He has the Seahawks with the strongest wide receiver room in the league, plus good scores for running back, defensive line and cornerback.

However, the greatest weakness of this roster continues to be a deal-breaker. According to Clay, the Seahawks currently have the worst offensive line unit in the NFL. Here’s the full chart.

Right now fans are fixated on the guard position, where there are at the moment no proven starters on the roster at all. However, they’re not much better at tackle, despite picking up what seemed like two solid long-term starters in the 2022 draft class. Charles Cross did not take that critical step forward in his second season in the league and in fact got worse. Meanwhile, Abe Lucas’ long-term knee issue kept him on he sidelines for most of the season.

At center, the Seahawks may choose to start Olu Oluwatimi, who was the best center in the nation in 2022 but only started one game and played 129 offensive snaps as a rookie.

To be fair, the team is obviously not done building up this unit for the 2024 season. Let’s revisit this after the draft and see how much more they have invested in this unit.

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The Seahawks just gave themselves another option at this position, announcing that they have signed former Rams guard Tremayne Anchrum.

Guard remains one of the most unsettled positions on the Seahawks roster currently. 2023 starters Damien Lewis and Phil Haynes have been allowed to test the market, opening a path for two new potential starters.

The Seahawks just gave themselves another option at this position, announcing that they have signed former Rams guard Tremayne Anchrum.

Anchrum (6-foot-2, 314 pounds) played his college ball at Clemson. After that, he was picked by the Rams in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL draft. Since then he has appeared in 31 games, but has only started once.

Anchrum’s first few years he barely played, but last season he played 96 snaps at right guard, raising the possibility he could compete with Anthony Bradford to replace Phil Haynes at that spot.

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The Seahawks are about to join the free agency frenzy, as the league’s legal tampering period is set to begin in a couple of hours. So far, there hasn’t been much news regarding this team and their efforts in free agency. We only have word of one outside free agent visit – that being former Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins. We also have heard that middle linebacker Bobby Wagner will hit the open market and is unlikely to return to Seattle.

While Wagner’s second exit from the Seahawks is another bummer, fans don’t necessarily have to think every player who’s been cut over the last week or so may not ever come back. In fact, general manager John Schneider said last week on  ESPN’s Dave Wyman and Bob Stelton show that they haven’t shut the door on bringing back anybody, H/T Seahawks.com.

“To be able to have (the coaching staff’s) opinions on players obviously is very important, we haven’t shut the door on any of them to come back, but when you do these contracts and try to create cap room, there’s ramifications.”

We can probably safely assume that strong safety Jamal Adams does not count in the group of players who might be returning. However, if they’re willing to come back on a smaller contract, Will Dissly, Bryan Mone and especially Quandre Diggs are all worth considering.

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We finally have our first reported visit between the Seahawks and an outside 2024 free agent.

We finally have our first reported visit between the Seahawks and an outside 2024 free agent.

According to Jordan Schultz at Bleacher Report, former Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins is on his way to Seattle to visit with the Seahawks.

Jenkins (6-foot-1, 200 pounds) was originally a fourth-round pick by the Chargers in the 2017 NFL draft out of Miami (FL). He played 61 games with them over the next four seasons, followed by three years and 48 more games with the Jaguars.

While Jenkins has not made a Pro Bowl team, he has performed well at his position. What sets him apart from the herd is his coverage, which has been exceptionally tight – especially over the last three seasons in Jacksonville. During that time he has only allowed two touchdowns and his passer rating allowed has dropped from 96.9 to 78.6 to 62.5 last season.

Jenkins is listed as a safety but that belies his versatility. Jacksonville used him all over in 2023 – notably in the box, in the slot and at free safety. If the Seahawks do sign him, he would be projected to start at safety opposite Julian Love.

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