Friday, the Seattle Seahawks welcomed an old friend in the depth painting of the quarter-arre. Drew Lock, who was acquired in the trade in Russell Wilson with the Broncos de Denver in 2022, returned to Seattle after a visit with the New York Giants.
There is no doubt that the Seahawks consider Sam Darnold as QB1 at the moment, but the status of Sam Howell on the list seems much less certain. The first details of the Lock contract are not good for the future of Howell in Seattle. Adam Schefter of ESPN reported on Friday that the Lock contract is an agreement of two years worth $ 5 million. Last season, he obtained $ 5 million for a season with the New York giants, but generally the signatures of the two-year-old free agents are not on the alignment bubble during the pre-season.
This level of engagement makes lock both more expensive than Howell and it is under contract one year more than the former leaving Washington commanders. Given Seattle’s historical reluctance to feed three quarters on the depth table of the regular season, it is logical to conclude that the countdown of Howell’s departure is in progress.
The Howell contract is an unmarked base salary of $ 1.1 million, which means that it cut or exchanged the Seahawks could not take dead money and resume $ 1.1 million in the ceiling space during the offseason. There is no precipitation to go from Howell, but I don’t really see the point of keeping it on board when September takes place. Howell was the main backup of the Seahawks in 2024, starting no match and transforming approximate emergency performance against Green Bay packers when Geno Smith was injured.
During three seasons in the NFL Howell went from QB3 to Washington to QB1 during its second season in QB2 in Seattle and now apparently QB3 entering its fourth. In the event that the Seahawks write a quarter-Arrière early anyway, his fate is completely sealed and he will probably be in another team before next season.
