The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions, which means the offseason and starting work on defending their title is the task for the next several months.
Up first is free agency, with the legal tampering period starting four weeks from Monday, so here is a rundown of the Seahawks whose contract are set to expire at 4:00 pm New York time on Wednesday, March 11.
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Seahawks pending free agents 2026
As regular Field Gulls readers know, players whose contracts expire fall into three different categories, and which category a player falls into is determined by how many accrued seasons they have earned in their NFL career. Th three categories are
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exclusive rights free agents (two or fewer accrued seasons),
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restricted free agents (exactly three accrued seasons) and
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unrestricted free agents (four or more accrued seasons).
With that laid out, here is how each group looks for the Seahawks.
Exclusive Rights Free Agents (ERFA)
All a team is required to do to prevent EFRAs from hitting the market is to extend them a qualifying tender, which is basically a one-year contract at league minimum for their level of experience. From a player’s perspective, their options are effectively to play for that league minimum contract or to stay home.
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Here are the Seahawks ERFAs and the salary of the tender which would be required based on their experience:
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RB George Holani: $1.075M
Both of those players are members of the special teams and between offense, defense and special teams combined to play more than a thousand snaps in 2025, so it seems a no brainer to bring both of them back.
Restricted Free Agents (RFAs)
Teams have two decisions to make regarding RFAs. The first is whether to extend a tender to the player, and if they do extend a tender, which of three levels to extend. Those three options are:
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First round tender: $8.107M
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Second round tender: $5.811M
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Right of first refusal tender: $3.547M
Seattle has several restricted free agents, including
Thomas Russell and Stoll seem the most likely to receive a tender from the team, with arguments made for both Pili and Bobo. However, it seems more likely that those two would reach a negotiated one- or two-year extension for less than the ROFR tender than receive a tender.
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Unrestricted Free Agents
There are the veteran players who make up the core of free agency, and about whom fans get most worked up while building their offseason wish lists. The current Seahawks who are not signed for 2026 are:
The secondary, of course, heads this list with three key members set to hit the market, but the most intriguing name for cap and collective bargaining agreement junkies might be Young. The reason for that is that Young falls into a unique category of players who qualify for what is known as the four-year qualifying contract, a type of contract the Seahawks have yet to use since its inclusion in the 2020 CBA. That bears watching in the coming weeks.
Notably, the entire starting offense is under contract for 2026, including Super Bowl champion right guard Anthony Bradford.
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So now it’s on to free agency, with a quick stop at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis first.
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