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Brady Henderson
SEATTLE — The Seahawks launched beginning tight finish Noah Fant on Sunday, the crew introduced.
Fant’s future with the Seahawks had been unsure due to his outsized contract and underwhelming manufacturing over three seasons in Seattle, and it turned a fair larger query after the crew spent a second-round choose in April on tight finish Elijah Arroyo.
Fant’s launch, which comes two days earlier than veterans are because of report back to coaching camp, saves the crew $9 million in money and $8.91 million in cap area. Seattle will tackle $4.5 million in useless cash.
The Seahawks already had roughly $27 million in cap area earlier than Fant’s launch, in keeping with OverTheCap.com, although a few of their accessible funds may very well be earmarked for upcoming extensions.
Fant, 27, was set to make a non-guaranteed $9 million within the remaining 12 months of a two-year, $21 million deal. The $10.5 million common ranked twelfth amongst tight ends, in keeping with OverTheCap.com.
Over his three seasons with Seattle, Fant ranked twentieth amongst tight ends in receptions (130), twenty first in receiving yards (1,400) and tied for thirty eighth in touchdowns (5). His rating in final season’s finale marked his first time discovering the top zone since late in 2022 — when he was acquired from the Denver Broncos within the Russell Wilson commerce.
Arroyo, whom Seattle drafted with the fiftieth choose, has drawn comparisons to Fant. The Seahawks’ depth chart at tight finish additionally contains AJ Barner, who led Seattle’s tight ends with 4 TDs final season as a rookie fourth-round choose, and veteran Eric Saubert.
The one different tight ends on Seattle’s roster are undrafted rookies, although the crew additionally has Brady Russell, a former tight finish who’s competing for the fullback job after switching positions this offseason.
Fant spent his first three seasons with the Broncos, who drafted him twentieth out of Iowa in 2019. In 47 video games with Denver, he caught 170 passes for 1,905 yards and 10 touchdowns.
