SEATTLE — The Seahawks launched beginning tight finish Noah Fant on Sunday, the workforce introduced.
Fant’s future with the Seahawks had been unsure due to his outsized contract and underwhelming manufacturing over three seasons in Seattle, and it turned a good greater query after the workforce spent a second-round choose in April on tight finish Elijah Arroyo.
Fant’s launch, which comes two days earlier than veterans are because of report back to coaching camp, saves the workforce $9 million in money and $8.91 million in cap area. Seattle will tackle $4.5 million in lifeless cash.
The Seahawks already had roughly $27 million in cap area earlier than Fant’s launch, based on OverTheCap.com, although a few of their accessible funds could possibly be earmarked for upcoming extensions.
Fant, 27, was set to make a non-guaranteed $9 million within the remaining yr of a two-year, $21 million deal. The $10.5 million common of that deal ranked twelfth amongst tight ends, based on OverTheCap.com.
Over his three seasons with Seattle, Fant ranked twentieth amongst tight ends in receptions (130), twenty first in receiving yards (1,400) and tied for thirty eighth in touchdowns (5). His rating in final season’s finale marked his first time discovering the tip zone since late in 2022 — when he was acquired from the Denver Broncos within the Russell Wilson commerce.
Arroyo, whom Seattle drafted with the fiftieth choose, has drawn comparisons to Fant. The Seahawks’ depth chart at tight finish additionally contains AJ Barner, who led Seattle’s tight ends with 4 TDs final season as a rookie fourth-round choose, and veteran Eric Saubert.
The one different tight ends on Seattle’s roster are undrafted rookies, although additionally they have Brady Russell, a former tight finish who’s competing for the fullback job after switching positions this offseason.
Fant spent his first three seasons with the Broncos, who drafted him twentieth out of Iowa in 2019. In 47 video games with Denver, he caught 170 passes for 1,905 yards and 10 touchdowns.