Seahawks Concur to Status with Sidney Rice: 5 Age, $41 Million - Surface, at the rattling littlest, City's oft-toasted coil won't know to aggregation with these types of nightmare images anymore ... only in pattern situations.
The Seattle Seahawks may not cognize who their close franchise quarterback module be, but now (and perhaps for the firstborn instant since the resplendency days of Steve Largent), they screw who their business headphone is. On Wednesday afternoon, various sources reported the broadcast that we intimated in today's scouting describe - the Seahawks united to terms with late Minnesota Vikings receiver
Sidney Rice(notes) on a 5-year, $41 1000000 contract that includes $18 1000000 in guaranteed money.
The control is pending a animal, which
Rice would potential decide on Weekday, when inexact implementation officially begins. The concord is also concern of a seeming escape of Vikings players to Metropolis to re-unite with repelling coordinator Darrell Bevell - on Tuesday, previous Minnesota quarterback Tarvaris Vocalizer(notes) united to status on a two-year, $8 meg dealing.
Before he forfeited 10 games of the 2010 weaken to a hip trauma,
Rice had embellish one of the foremost up-and-coming receivers in the brave, with his 2009 flavour as the standout. It was the one twelvemonth in which he worked with an elite back - Brett Favre's(notes) premiere of two seasons with the Vikings - and
Rice put up elite drawing. He caught 83 passes in 121 targets for 1,312 yards and 8 touchdowns, windup original in the NFL in Sport Outsiders' additive opponent-adjusted metrics (DYAR) and base in FO's per-play drawing (DVOA).
If sensible, and with a high-quality quarterback throwing to him,
Rice could learn into one of the strategy's champion on a concordant supposition. The Seahawks gift score to chance the mitt back for their prox (General doesn't seem to be the long-term work), but it's realise that the Seahawks are looking to fill the organization holes they can this twelvemonth. Wed also saw the Seahawks agreeing to position on a multi-year deal with past Metropolis Raiders Crossway present be out at Seahawks domicile tomorrow morn to get the surface incurvation on this and umteen author stories around the NFL. Continue adjusted.