The Seattle Seahawks have a brand new beginning heart for the fifth consecutive season, and it’s the third yr in a row they’ve signed an outdoor free agent to a one-year deal. Austin Blythe and Evan Brown didn’t fairly work out, so is the third time the appeal with Connor Williams?
Having missed the tip of the 2023 season with an ACL tear, the previous Miami Dolphins starter remained a free agent into August. Extremely, it appears to be like like his restoration has him positioned to be a Week 1 starter, which didn’t look notably seemingly given the character and timing of his harm.
We now have the main points of Williams’ contract, which was reportedly worth up to $6 million. Listed below are the fundamentals of his deal, as filed by Overthecap.com:
Base Wage: $1.23 million (all absolutely assured)
Signing Bonus: $1.75 million (absolutely assured)
Per Sport Roster Bonus: $1.02 million
Cap Quantity: $3.28 million
Fast arithmetic will let you know that Williams’ base contract worth is $4 million.
“However wait! Wasn’t the deal price as much as $6 million?”
Sure, and that’s the place the incentives are available in. From ESPN’s Brady Henderson:
The opposite $2M accessible in incentives are extra easy. Williams would get $1M if he performs 75% or extra of Seattle’s offensive snaps, and one other $1M if he hits that mark and the Seahawks make the playoffs.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) August 14, 2024
Williams has a normal per-game roster bonus of $510,000 (or $30,000 for each common season recreation he’s lively), in addition to separate $510,000 per-game roster bonus that is a bit more difficult.
On the $510K accessible in “per-game roster bonuses” which are actually extra like incentives, these are tied to crew efficiency or Williams’ enjoying time. The crew efficiency triggers are convoluted, tied to Seattle bettering its rating in any of a number of offensive classes.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) August 14, 2024
Williams may additionally qualify for these bonuses if he performs 46% of the offensive snaps. He performed 45.62% of Miami’s snaps in 2023, in order that’s a NLTBE incentive. If he performs a minimum of 46% or if any of the team-performance triggers are hit, he’d earn $30K for each recreation he is lively.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) August 14, 2024
The Seahawks presently sit at roughly $8.3 million in available cap space, and that’s preserving in thoughts the “High 51 Cutoff rule” remains to be in place, the place the 51 highest cap hits on the 90-man roster are the one ones that rely towards the cap previous to cutdown day.
