Pretty sure everyone was gushing about how much of a dangerous wizard of a weapon he was a few weeks ago. Guess Seattle doesn't need a guy like that.
Trying to decide how this affects my fantasy team now. Is he likely to produce on the Jets? Is he going to be their featured weapon? Will Geno be able to get him the ball? Argh...!
Maybe, Yes, Maybe. SEA wasn't doing too much to get him going so even though I am sure he hates going from a very good team to a crap one I don't think this is going to hurt his value. It can only go up (and will at least stay the same).
There's an ESPN insider article that talks about how, even if Geno sucks (and he does), he'll throw downfield more to Harvin than Wilson did. Harvin's only had 4 passes longer than 10 yards targeted for him this year.
Seattle's beat guy, Terry Blount: http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/seatt...-harvin-became-more-trouble-that-he-was-worth Seems like a combo of attitude/anger issues, young guys who deserve a look, and cash for Russell. From the link the Seahawks are off the cap hook for 7.1 of his 11M next year. As for "not using him", they centered the offense around him. Beast Mode getting 10 touches a game? Very few deep throws by Wilson?
I don't think that is accurate, I believe they are ON the hook for 7.2 million in dead money next year.
If you cut a player you have to pay "dead money", but i'm surprised that would be the case if they are traded? I guess you'd have to pay the signing bonus....
He's traded, so they don't pay him another dime in cash, the jets take that over (including, iirc, prorated guarantees, though I'm not nearly as up on nfl cap rules as nba). But from what Blount says, a part of the signing bonus already paid (4.1m) will go against the cap for SEA next year.
Brian, as far as I can tell, his 12 million signing bonus was prorated over the first 5 years of the deal, 2.4 million per year. Him being traded after 2 years means the final 3 years (2.4*3) will accelerate onto the cap next off season, 7.2 million. Seattle opens up some cap room, (his base salary next year was 10.5) so they open up about 3.3 million in cap room, but that is only the difference of what they would have spent. If I buy a TV for $1000, watch it a few times, and sell it for $300, sure I "opened up $300 of available money" but I'm still $700 in the hole overall.
