Three first-year Seattle Seahawks who should not be welcomed back next season

All those good feelings about the Seattle Seahawks beginning the season 3-0 are gone. 12s still do not know if the team they saw early in the season is the real Seattle football team or whether the team that has lost three straight is. Let's hope for the former.

Part of the issues for the team can be blamed on coaching and scheme. Seattle was supposed to run the ball more this season, but that has not happened. Seattle throws the ball 68.4 percent of the time, the highest in the NFL by a wide margin. Of course, when Seattle does run the ball, the blocking is so poor that Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet have few holes to run through.

Unfortunately, not many of Seattle's offseason acquisitions have worked out well. Center Connor Williams was expected to be a massive upgrade at center, for instance, but that has not happened. The three players below have been even worse.

First-year Seattle Seahawks players who don't need to return in 2025

Safety Rayshawn Jenkins

Jenkins was signed to a two-year deal this offseason, and his cap hit jumps from $4.1 million this year to $7.9 million next season. The issue is that he hasn't played well enough to even earn his contract in 2024. He started off well, as did the entire Seattle defense against bad offensive teams, but in the most recent games, Jenkins has been awful.

In fact, Jenkins has not forced an incompletion in the last three games. All 11 times he has been targeted, the pass has been completed, and those passes have gone for 171 yards. Even worse, 75 of those yards came after the catch, meaning Jenkins has not limited the damage done once a pass is caught when he has had a chance.

So far this season, Jenkins is allowing a quarterback rating when targeted of 119.0, a career-low. He is also whiffing on 16.7 percent of his tackle attempts, his second-highest mark since 2019. In the last three games, that number has jumped to 23.5 percent. Seattle needs to take Jenkins' replacement in the 2025 NFL draft.

Tight end Pharaoh Brown

Brown was signed to a one-year deal to mainly be a blocker. He has never been highly productive as a pass-catcher in his career. That trend has continued this season as Brown only has three catches and for only 19 yards. The issue has been that Brown has been horrific as a blocker. Pro Football Focus (paywall alert!) has assigned Brown a grade of 35.0 in pass-blocking, a career low.

Brown has also missed two games, and he has to be available to prove he is worthy of staying on the roster as the third tight end option. That is what he has become after Noah Fant and AJ Barner. Rookie Barner has proven he can catch well and block as well as hoped coming out of college.

Due to Fant's pass-catching ability and Barner's well-rounded game that will only get better with more playing time, Brown is expendable. Seattle should draft another tight end in the 2025 draft and replace Brown.

Edge rusher Trevis Gipson

If you thought Dre'Mont Jones, another player who does not need to be on the roster next season, was inefficient and unproductive, Gipson has been even worse, though, thankfully, in fewer snaps. Gipson simply doesn't need to be on the field at all. Seattle might have realized this because Gipson was among the team's inactives in Week 6.

In 47 snaps this season, Gipson somehow has not recorded a tackle, but he has whiffed on one attempt. He did have one quarterback pressure. He also has allowed completions both times he has been targeted, though one was a little unfair to Gipson. The play still showed his jarring lack of athletic ability.

On a trick play by the Detroit Lions in Week 4, wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown threw a pass to quarterback Jared Goff near the Seahawks goal line. Gipson picked up on the play but was so exceedingly slow - he ran as if his legs were tied together - that Goff caught the ball easily and scored a touchdown. Gipson should be released and not even last the rest of this season.

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