How a lot the Seahawks are paying former Professional Bowl G Laken Tomlinson

Only a week stays till the 2024 NFL Draft takes heart stage for 3 days, and for followers of groups throughout the league which means seeking to the long run with hope and optimism. Nonetheless, even because the youthful additions of the draft are simply over the horizon, groups proceed to guage issues internally, together with gamers recovering from 2023 accidents and offseason surgical procedures, in addition to getting first seems to be at free agent signings.

For the Seattle Seahawks, this consists of the previous Professional Bowl guard the crew introduced on Monday it had signed, Laken Tomlinson. And whereas the Hawks are getting their first have a look at Tomlinson in individual as a member of the crew, followers at the moment are capable of get their first have a look at the main points of the contract he signed.

As Bob Condotta of the Seattle Occasions notes in his submit, the $1.21M base wage of Tomlinson’s contract is a far cry from the unique “as much as $4M” reporting of the deal. Nonetheless, Brady Henderson of ESPN has particulars on the incentives portion of the contract that would push it as much as $4M.

Curiously, Tomlinson performed each offensive snap for the Jets in 2023, which means that his enjoying time incentives could be categorised as prone to be earned and hit the cap in 2024 if they’re purely based mostly on enjoying time. That makes it seemingly that there’s some form of qualifier hooked up to these incentives that’s inflicting them to be categorized as not prone to be earned and maintaining them off the 2024 cap. This may not be a tough job, because it might be one thing so simple as basing the incentives on enjoying time and the Seattle offense averaging 16 or extra factors per recreation.

In any case, the Seahawks have a veteran inside offensive lineman below contract with minimal ensures, and the liberty to draft as they see match when the Seahawks come on the clock.