Four Seattle Seahawks that could be cap casualties this offseason
By Lee Vowell
Ugo Amadi
Cap hit: $2,701,299
Cap savings: $2,540,000
Unrestricted free agent: 2023
Seattle has wanted to replace Ugo Amadi in the slot the last two seasons with Marquise Blair. But Blair has gotten injured in each of the past two seasons and Amadi moved back into the starting slot corner position. In 2021, he was atrocious. Per Pro Football Focus, Amadi was the second-worst graded corner in the NFL this past year.
Amadi allowed a quarterback rating of 97.1 when targeted which isn’t the worst ever by any means but he did allow 9.7 yards per completion. This is awful for a slot corner. Slot receivers are meant more for picking up 7-8 yards and not chunk yardage. If Seattle is playing a team and their slot receiver is picking up nearly a first down, on average, every time they catch the ball then that team is going to stay on the field a lot. This is what happened in 2021.
Trimming Amadi means only $161,000 of dead cap for the Seahawks but $2.54 million of saving. Cutting Amadi and replacing him with nearly anyone else (maybe Blair can actually come back and be healthy for a full season for once) seems a no-brainer.