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Seahawks tender four restricted free agents
Posted by Danny O'Neil
Those four thereby become free agents, and while they are free to negotiate with other teams when free agency begins Thursday at 9 p.m. Pacific, the Seahawks will have the right to either match any offer sheet they sign with another team or receive a draft pick in the round the player was selected in as compensation.
Tapp was chosen in the second round, Spencer the first, Sims the fourth and Obomanu the seventh.
Note: This portion updated to post correct differentiation of original tender amounts based on years of experience.
The original-round tender entails a one-year offer of $1.226 million for Spencer as a player with five accrued seasons. Tapp and Sims have four accrued seasons, so their tender level is $1.176 million. Obomanu has three accrued seasons, his tender level is just over $1 million.
Seattle did not tender T Brandon Frye or LB Lance Laury. Both become unrestricted free agents.
Seattle tendered David Hawthorne, a linebacker. With only two years in the NFL, Hawthorne is not eligible to sign with another team. As an exclusive-rights free agent, his only NFL option is to re-sign with Seattle either signing the tender or negotiating a different contract.
Update: The original-round tender levels are differentiated above. There's a note that deserves to be included, too. While an original-round tender to Spencer entails an offer of $1.226 million to secure Seattle the right of first refusal, but Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com clearly outlined that according to the league's Collective Bargaining Agreement, on June 1, the team is obligated to offer the player either the previous tender amount or 110 percent of the prior year's salary. In Spencer's case, he made $2.2 million last season according to the NFL Players Association records. That means after June 1, he would be due an offer of $2.42 million to remain a restricted free agent. Spencer is the only one of Seattle's four restricted free agents who would be affected that way.
UPDATE - 10:02 AM
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