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Brady hendersonESPN
SEATTLE – The Seattle Seahawks are expected to move from starting defensive tackle Jarran Reed through a trade or release, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Reed signaled his apparent goodbye to the Seahawks on Thursday, writing on Twitter:
They have been real 12s💙✌🏿 tomorrow at 1 is official … in the next chapter
– jarran reed (@jarranreed) March 25, 2021
The 28-year-old Reed has one year and $ 8.5 million left on his contract, which is scheduled to count $ 13.5 million against the cap. The Seahawks would save $ 8.5 million against the cap if they traded or released Reed and incurred $ 5 million in dead money.
The Seahawks have to free up cap space to meet the cap once the recent deals they agreed to become official. They only have three picks in next month’s draft, a second, a fourth and a seventh round, after trading a fifth-round pick to the Las Vegas Raiders for guard Gabe Jackson.
Reed, a 2016 second-round draft pick from Alabama, was known primarily for being a racing fanatic in his first two seasons, but then had 10.5 sacks in 2018. He began the 2019 season serving a six-game suspension for violating the rules. of the NFL. personal conduct policy and finished the year with two sacks in 10 games.
The Seahawks gave Reed a two-year, $ 23 million deal last March, betting he could get back to his 2018 form. He had something of a catch-up season with 6.5 sacks in 16 games.
The Seahawks re-signed Poona Ford to a two-year contract early in free agency. Ford has started the last two seasons alongside Reed. Seattle also has Bryan Mone, Cedrick Lattimore and Myles Adams as true defensive tackles on its roster.