498: Breaking Down Every Seahawks Free Agent Decision

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Our Seattle Seahawks are kicking off free agency with five starters and two more key players potentially hitting the open market in two weeks at the start of the new league year. We run through some of the challenges general manager John Schneider faces with keeping each player and take a look at some of the projected salaries by The Athletic and Pro Football Focus. Kenneth Walker may have the biggest gap between how Seahawks fans would value him vs how he may be valued by another team, but a close second could be Boye Mafe. Mafe is considered one of the top 5 edge rushers in free agency, but his play time was limited in 2025 due to the play of Demarcus Lawrence and Uchenna Nwosu and Derick Hall.

The amount of potential turnover in the secondary area of concern. Tariq Woolen, Josh Jobe and Coby Bryant are all expected to see contracts upward of $10 million per year and closer to $20 million per year in the case of Woolen. Is that the best use of salary cap dollars to try and keep all three? How would we prioritize? We take a look at the exclusive rights free agents and what that designation means as well as the restricted free agents and the one starter who stands out.

In the second half of the show, we talk about potential rule changes (and the lack of rule changes) that are being discussed in Indianapolis. We could see a greater emphasis placed on officiating from the booth than on the field for certain calls. We call out the Los Angeles Rams and Augusta National on news that came out this week about both. Better at Life honors go out to a company innovating battery technology and to YouTube for being a place to find Patriots fan tears, Niners fan tears and Rams fan tears all in one spot.

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0:00.0	This is the Sea Hawkers podcast.
0:09.0	Episode 498.
0:11.0	I'm Brandon Schultz of the military Seahawkers, and I am joined by my good buddy, Adam
0:16.0	Emmert.
0:17.0	We're cruising on into the off-season, buddy.
0:20.0	Oh, it's full throttle, baby.
0:21.7	And it feels like it's coming on fast because of the fact. I just want to make sure we brought it up one more time that we won the Super Bowl. And so, you know, we were a little behind the eight ball here. But this is going to be fun, man. I'm fired up. I think we're going to talk a little bit of free agency today. We maybe even throw a couple draft pick ideas maybe in there as we go through that
0:40.9	because it all kind of ties together, right, to some degree.
0:44.8	Well, we got the combine coming up this week.
0:47.2	So it's time to start thinking about draft season.
0:50.5	And I know for other teams that didn't win the Super Bowl,
0:53.1	their mindset has been firmly on draft season since, I don't know, six weeks ago.
0:58.0	They surely have. And look, this is an awesome position to be in. And as we've said, a couple times now since the big one, that this is one of the most fascinating times to be a 12th and to watch what this team does
1:14.5	going forward as John Schneider does the hardest thing in football or really anything.
1:19.6	And that's maintained success and continue forward.
1:23.3	I'm curious to see where he goes because I think there's lessons to be learned maybe from the first run.
1:29.4	We'll see what he applies or doesn't or how he thinks it's different for this team.
1:33.1	And I think free agency is going to be a big part of that in terms of giving us some clues as to where his heads at.
1:40.0	Yeah.
1:40.2	Well, and that's why I think that even with the combine this week, it felt appropriate to kind of kick things off in this offseason talking free agency because I do think that this is going to play into the offseason even more so than draft picks.
1:56.5	And part of that is because we gave up a couple of our picks for Rashid Shaheed.
2:01.1	He's been a really important part of the team.
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