In the weeks leading up to the draft, chatter was heard that Seahawks wide receiver D.K. Metcalf may be available for a price. After trading away quarterback Russell Wilson, many began to assume that the Seahawks were in sell-mode. While Seattle hasn’t looked to actively move the former second-rounder, they have fielded calls regarding a potential trade. It was reported in the build-up to the draft that the Jets were willing to part ways with the 10th overall pick, though nothing materialized on that front. 
In a radio interview, according to Brady Henderson of ESPN, head coach Pete Carroll spoke on the situation. “We want him to be here. He wants to be here,” Carroll said. “We’ll figure it out. It’ll just take us some time, but we’ll get it done.”
This is the second extremely encouraging statement made this week hinting that Metcalf will return to Seattle, after Metcalf commented recently saying, “At the end of the day, once you sit down and make a grown-man decision, yeah, I want to be in Seattle.”
With Metcalf looking to remain a Seahawk, he could be in line for a similar deal to the one signed by A.J. Brown, his former Ole Miss teammate, with whom he shares an agent.
To accommodate such a lucrative extension, the Seahawks could use some of the cap relief they will be seeing next month. Given that Carlos Dunlap was released with a post-June 1 designation, the team will gain just over $5MM in space after that date, which should make a deal feasible from a financial perspective, provided all parties still wish to get a deal done at that time. Both Carroll and Metcalf’s remarks point to that being a strong possibility.
ya why not just trade him for picks at the deadline
Because the seller’s market for WRs has been sky high now, NFL deadline deals don’t tend to be that big, and waiting to trade an impending free agent you intend to trade is silly because there’s more risk of him getting hurt than of you getting a better deal later?
Although the mid season deadline has been a bit more active in recent years, these types of marquee player trades are usually made at the draft or the start of the league-year.
Ya nfl contracts are a joke though small market teams like Seattle should take advantage of that
Small market team? Seattle? lol
The Seahawks owner has over double the wealth that the next wealthiest NFL owner has. Not that “small, mid or large” market is even a thing in the NFL like in mlb because of the salary cap and revenue sharing. If there were no salary cap, the Seahawks could spend more money than the Dodgers.
Oh my bad the Seahawks are a huge market team and definitely not the smallest brokest worst team with the crappiest fan base on the west coast
You sound like an ignorant SF fan. We never had fans until we won the SB. Even though almost every home game was televised because they were sold out. They also made the “Seattle” rule about noise because opposing teams couldn’t hear.
Seattle isn’t a truly small market team because they have fans that come.Oregon Alaska Canada. They have fans that fly down from Alaska every game.
There is the ignorant saying that it took Seattle too long to win a SB. I wish we would have made and won it sooner. SF won it 3 years earlier if you go from start of franchise. The best thing is our stadium is in Seattle not in another city and then priced out long term season ticket holders some that have had tickets in the family since year one. The last point is we don’t have guys stabbing each other after games. This is more than your ignorance deserves. The only bad years Seattle had was when Behring owned the team and tried to take it to LA. The years he didn’t own the team most seasons where sold out.
Bad fans cheap owner bad city you have hit on every ignorant point you could.
Seattle is the 14th largest TV market in the country, and 3rd largest on the West Coast.
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I have no idea the numbers but it is hard to believe this owner has double the wealth of Kraft.
Robert Kraft net worth: 8.3 billion dollars
Jody Allen net worth: 20.3 billion dollars
so… yeah.
5th most expensive city to reside in. Yeah, small market. Quite a bit has changed since the Sonics left, and only a matter of time before they are a 4 sport city.
Lol wat they’re barely a two sport town. They deserve a NBA franchise more than sac does at this point but saying you’re better than sac is boasting about your third place finish in the special Olympics
See if Metcalf still feels this way while the Seahawks are winning 4 or 5 games this season.
You make it sound like the Seahawks are doomed to forever more win 5 or less games a season. Wishful thinking on your part?
Seattle will be bad this year and package picks to move up to number one or two overall and draft Bryce Young or Stroud next year.
So you’re sure either of those two quarterbacks are going to be the next Joe Burrow. Falling in the next franchise quarterback is like winning the lottery. You’ll find out how much Russell Wilson was carrying this franchise.
Or we will find out how much his salary was holding it back. That is the debate. Can you win a Super Bowl when your QB makes 45 million per season? The Seahawks say no and RW and the Broncos say yes. We will find out.
Seattle is in a rebuild when we get our QB next year things will turn around. Had a good draft this year have a good one next with the QB at the head of the pack will give us 5 years of cheaper QB play to pay other players.
Would be interesting to see an article that compares some of the bigger name trades and what teams actually got for them, throw up a poll who made the best deal in retrospect and who made the worst. You’ve got the Mack trade, Tunsil trade, AB, OBJ, Palmer, just a few.
Only in the media… Just because a team trades a star player then the media assumes they’ll trade other star players smh
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t take the Jets offer. He’s not going to produce like he did with Russell, and there’s going to be a rebuild over the next couple of years that will just waste dollars and production. As good as he is, I pull the trigger on that deal and begin loading up on draft picks.