MARCH 15: The Seahawks are giving Jenkins a two-year, $12MM deal, ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler tweets, noting $6.6MM will come the safety’s way in Year 1. Fant will collect up to $14MM on his deal, per KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson, who adds the veteran tackle will receive a $3.7MM signing bonus.
Multiple teams pursued Fant, according to Wilson, but John Schneider confirmed (via the Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta) the Seahawks are not planning a two-Fant starting lineup. While Noah Fant is back at tight end, George Fant will work as a swingman behind starters Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas. Considering the investments the Seahawks made in their young tackles, this is not surprising.
MARCH 13: After moving on from both Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs, the Seahawks had a need on the backend. Those veteran safeties will not be in place for 2024, but Rayshawn Jenkins will. The latter has agreed to a deal with Seattle, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. 
In another free agent deal, the Seahawks will bring back George Fant. The veteran tackle is set to return to where his career began, Pelissero notes in a follow-up. Fant will provide depth at the tackle spot on a team featuring two young starters.
Jenkins was part of Jacksonville’s cost-cutting measures in the lead-in to free agency. He had a three-year run in Duval County, remaining a full-time starter over that span. The 30-year-old racked up five interceptions during the past two seasons, adding 21 pass deflections in that time. To little surprise, Jenkins was quickly on the radar of interested teams after his Jags release went through.
The Seahawks and 49ers had Jenkins visits lined up, and he has elected to head to Seattle. A first-team role should await the Miami alum given the decision to cut Adams and Diggs in cost-shedding moves. Seattle invested in Julian Love last offseason, but he is only under contract through 2024. The ex-Giant could play his way into a new Seattle pact with his play this season, and doing so will come about with a veteran of 109 games alongside him in the form of Jenkins.
Fant spent the first three years of his career in the Emerald City, logging 24 starts across 46 games with the Seahawks. He worked as a full-time starter with the Jets from 2020-22, seeing time at both left and right tackle. He took a one-year Texans deal last offseason, starting 13 contests and playing almost exclusively at the RT spot. That could come in handy with Seattle.
2022 third-rounder Abraham Lucas was limited to six games last season due to injury, and Fant will provide a veteran starting option if necessary. Lucas struggled when on the field in 2023, drawing a PFF grade of 53.1 (a steep decline from that of his rookie season). Fant, 31, earned a much better evaluation last year in a bounce-back from his final Jets season. He could see playing time with Seattle for the second time in his career if needed at either tackle spot.
Seattle (no income tax Stste) to SF (CA income tax rate $29,959 for every $100k) becomes an easy choice.
This number is untrue. It’s a quote from talent.com which includes federal taxes and Social Security withholding for $100,000. The actual income tax for the state of California for $100,000 would be somewhere between six and $7000. Still a chunk of money. But remember you’re going to pay federal taxes and Social Security wherever you go. The real reason that Jenkins chose to Seahawks is because he would not be a starter in San Francisco.
Plus, the Non-Resident Entertainer’s Tax means that every player is paying taxes on their earnings when they play in CA (and most other states), no matter the income tax of the state they reside in. But let’s not cloud this issue with facts! The real story is that he just liked Seattle better!!
Tax experts come forth and appreciated.
know I had to pay being sent to CA for 2 months by my company.
My data came from – talent.com
“you make $100,000 a year living in the region of California, USA, you will be taxed $29,959”
And WA doesn’t have income tax – but yes ‘standard deductions to federal’ are applicable.
Yes, your data came from talent.com. that is what I said above. If you look at the details of the data, you will see that less than 7000 of that $100,000 was California state tax. The rest is federal tax, Social Security, etc. that add up to the $29,000. I have lived in California and paid taxes for over five decades. Also, you failed to take into account the Mensh tax, which means that all the other players pay taxes to the state of California for the days which they worked in the state. No one is exempt.
Mensa tax? Never heard of such
More commonly referred to as a “jock tax” and it’s hardly a California thing. Every state with a NBA/MLB/NFL team that also has a state income tax also has a “jock tax”