{"id":736691,"date":"2026-07-01T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736691\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:19:17","slug":"espn-analyst-gives-seattle-seahawks-higher-offseason-grade-than-la-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736691\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN analyst gives Seattle Seahawks higher offseason grade than LA Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biggest move: Extending WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a>
Move I liked: Extending OT Charles Cross<\/a>
Move I disliked: Letting Edge Boye Mafe<\/a> leave in free agency<\/p>\n

After winning the Super Bowl, the Seahawks were inevitably going to have some departures. Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III<\/a> went to the Chiefs<\/a>. He was followed by safety Coby Bryant (Bears<\/a>), cornerback Riq Woolen (Eagles<\/a>) and Mafe (Bengals<\/a>). And offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak became the Raiders\u2019 head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks weren\u2019t going to be able to keep their Super Bowl-winning roster intact, so they had to prioritize. And instead of bringing in outside personnel, they focused their spending on extending homegrown talent. Smith-Njigba, the reigning Offensive Player of the Year, received a massive (and deserved) $42.15 million-per-year extension<\/a>. Cross received a $26.1 million extension<\/a> for his work at left tackle. Derick Hall<\/a> was given a middle-class edge rusher extension<\/a> at $14 million per year. Seattle also re-signed CB Josh Jobe<\/a> and WR Rashid Shaheed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regarding those decisions on whom to keep and whom to let go, I\u2019m less fond of the choice of Hall over Mafe. This was the easier path because Hall was still under contract, but I would rather have Mafe — who has proved to be very good against the run and the pass on a per-snap basis. Perhaps Seattle could have traded Hall and paid a few more million for Mafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biggest move: Extending WR Jaxon Smith-NjigbaMove I liked: Extending OT Charles CrossMove I disliked: Letting Edge Boye Mafe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,50640,99],"class_list":["post-736691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736691","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=736691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}