{"id":624615,"date":"2026-05-05T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:54:10","slug":"how-much-it-cost-the-seattle-seahawks-to-sign-browns-tight-end-harrison-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624615\/","title":{"rendered":"How much it cost the Seattle Seahawks to sign Browns tight end Harrison Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seattle Seahawks made a post-draft free agency signing, bringing in veteran tight end Harrison Bryant to the 90-man roster. Bryant was once upon a time one of the best tight ends in college football, earning unanimous All-American honors and the John Mackey Award in 2019 as the most outstanding TE in the college game. Things haven\u2019t quite worked out for him in the NFL, and in recent years he\u2019s more of a blocking tight end at the bottom of the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unsurprisingly, the Seahawks didn\u2019t fork over too much money in landing Bryant. <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/harrison-bryant\/8855\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OverTheCap.com<\/a> has a hold of Bryant\u2019s contract, which breaks down as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prorated signing bonus: $50,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The signing bonus is guaranteed, so if the Seahawks let him go then they will have to eat $50,000 in dead money. Oh, the horror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bryant\u2019s contract is the good ol\u2019 Veteran Salary Benefit in action. If you don\u2019t remember our story from last year, here\u2019s a refresher!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For 2026, the VSB is $1,075,000. Add in the $50,000 signing bonus for Bryant and that\u2019s how you get a cap number of $1.125 million <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/minimum-salaries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even though his salary is $1.215 million<\/a>, which is the minimum for players with six credit seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bryant will face an uphill battle to make the roster with AJ Barner, Elijah Arroyo, and Eric Saubert comprising the top three options. Nick Kallerup also stayed on the active roster all season as an undrafted rookie. Whether he makes the Seahawks could depend on whether or not they want to add another tight end or have competition for Saubert or Kallerup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks made a post-draft free agency signing, bringing in veteran tight end Harrison Bryant to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,82034,24284,99],"class_list":["post-624615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-salary-cap","tag-seattle-seahawks-roster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}