Well that was easy, wasn’t it? The Seattle Seahawks already have their entire draft class under contract with room to spare before next week’s mandatory minicamp.
NFL insider Tom Pelissero reported on Friday that Jadarian Price, Seattle’s top pick and the No. 32 selection overall in this year’s NFL Draft, has agreed to terms and is expected to put pen to paper later this afternoon.
In this era of the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), there’s functionally no real wiggle room to negotiate rookie contracts outside of how the signing bonus is paid out. Wherever you’re picked affects your initial contract value, and as the last pick of the first round, Price’s contract will come in at an average of just over $4 million/year.
For context, Price’s Notre Dame teammate, Jeremiyah Love, has a four-year, $53 million contract with a $35 million signing bonus.
Any thought of a fifth-year option for Price will need a few years to play itself out, both for how well Price performs and how much it’d cost to exercise the option.
Last season, it took until mid-July for the Seahawks to complete their 2025 draft class contracts. This year more closely mirrors 2024, which in itself was unusually early for Seattle under John Schneider. Welcome to the new norm, perhaps?
