Seahawks will keep all four of their Restricted Free Agents in 2020

The Seahawks had four Restricted Free Agents that could have signed offers from other teams before Friday’s deadline. None of them did.

Friday’s deadline for Restricted Free Agents has come and gone. The Seahawks had four such players, Jacob Hollister, David Moore, Joey Hunt and Branden Jackson. None of these four signed offer sheets from other teams. This means all four will remain Seattle property (a weird word to place on a human but that is the correct term) for 2020.

What this means is that these four players can either sign the Restricted Free Agent tenders placed upon them by the Seahawks or negotiate new contracts. The good thing about a player trying to negotiate a new contract is they can do so for a longer term than just the one year that the tender applies to.

Seattle was smart about how they went about assigning their tenders this offseason. The Seahawks did not want to lose Hollister who was extremely productive after Seattle lost every other key tight end last season. Seattle placed a second-round tender on Hollister and no team was going to sign Hollister only to give Seattle a second round pick in the future.

For Hunt, Jackson and Moore, Seattle placed original round tenders. This meant any team signing these players to an offer sheet would have to give up a draft pick for the round that specific player was chosen. Jackson would have equaled a seventh-round pick. Hunt would have been a sixth round choice. And Moore would have been a seventh round pick.

Of the three in the previous paragraph, only Hunt has anything decent consistently. He came in and started for the Seahawks at center last year after starter Justin Britt was lost for the season with a knee injury. Jackson and Moore have played but been extremely inconsistent so their values might still need to be measured by future seasons.