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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Cooper Kupp Signs with the Seahawks

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is back after a short vacation for another podcast quick slant to break down Cooper Kupp signing with the Seattle Seahawks. Jeff discusses Kupp's fit in Seattle, what he's doing with him in fantasy drafts, and how this signing impacts Sam Darnold.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The prodigal son has returned to Washington State. Yes, as I was on my mini vacation over the weekend,

0:06.4

Cooper Cup ended up signing with the Seattle Seahawks. It's a three-year deal worth a reported

0:11.5

$45 million. Fifteen million a year is actually a lot for Cooper Cup. I'm impressed. I'm not mad.

0:18.6

But the question about the contract details, we honestly don't know

0:23.2

how much guaranteed money is here. Is it just one year of guarantees? And then they'll take it from

0:28.8

there. Would not be surprising if that's the case because he is entering his age 32 season.

0:34.1

And we also have an indication based on how Sam Darnold's contract is structured,

0:38.7

that this could be the case for Cooper Cup. I'll get into Darnold in a minute because I also

0:42.1

wanted to talk about what we found out about his contract. But let's talk about Cooper Cup.

0:47.6

He's at home. This is his home team. He, of course, went to Eastern Washington, but also,

0:53.8

you know, was born in Washington State, Yakima.

0:56.6

So this is a homecoming of sorts in a lot of ways for him here, which is pretty awesome to see.

1:01.9

We knew he was very unlikely to leave the West Coast and honestly just sticks in the NFC West.

1:08.8

Now, in terms of the fit, it's a bit of a head scratcher for me because you kind of

1:13.1

already have this player.

1:14.6

You have a younger version who is very much on the upslope of his career, budding star

1:20.6

in Jackson Smith and Jigba.

1:22.2

And I very much do view them as cut from the same cloth.

1:25.3

In fact, I look at Cooper Cup as sort of the elder statesman

1:28.8

of this type of player. Amun Ra right now is sort of the elite version of this type of player.

1:34.2

And then you have ascending guys, Jackson Smith and Jigba, Ladd McConkey, that sort of slot,

1:40.2

short and intermediate guy, but with a little bit of juice, maybe can run after catch,

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