Seahawks 2020 offseason plan: How it should go

We are now about 2 weeks away from the start of free agency and the official beginning of the new league year. The Seahawks figure to be busy, but what will be their best course of action? I have some ideas.

Some time ago, 12th Man Rising came up with an idea. It was simple to conceive but difficult to produce. It begins with the simplest of questions that have no right or wrong answer. The question? What would you do this off-season if you were magically named the GM of the Seattle Seahawks?

And thus, the idea for creating an off-season plan was born. In this series, we are asked to simulate the first few weeks of a typical NFL off-season. This includes re-signing and signing free agents, choosing who to let walk, and cutting players you feel like are overpaid.

But realism is the rule of the day. So we started with the Seahawks roster as of March 1, meaning the Greg Olsen contract is already on the books. That gives us a starting point of roughly $44.572 million in cap space to spend this off-season.

Attempting to keep track of all the moves we intend to make is a difficult task, so we utilized overthecap.com’s Salary Cap calculator to help keep our numbers straight and to make sure we didn’t go crazy.

Predicting the cost of certain free agents is also a bit of a crapshoot as markets constantly change as the salary cap goes up. Thankfully, Spotrac’s market value tool gives us a decent idea of what some of these players can expect. But there is still some guesswork involved in the figures, so cut us some slack.

But that is basically it. We can do whatever we like, so long as it is within the confines of the salary cap and is somehow reasonable on the current universal timeline we all inhabit. They only limit is your imagination and what you can do with the money you have. With all that in mind, let’s get started.