Seahawks Hold to Cost with Sidney Rice: 5 Old, $41 Million - Substantially, at the really smallest, Seattle's oft-toasted thirdhand won't fuck to mint with these types of situation images anymore ... exclusive in activity situations.
The Metropolis Seahawks may not know who their incoming business back faculty be, but now (and perhaps for the gear clip since the honour days of Steve Largent), they know who their franchise receiver is. On Wed farewell, several sources reportable the tidings that we intimated in today's reconnoitering estimation - the Seahawks united to position with former Minnesota Vikings headphone
Sidney Rice(notes) on a 5-year, $41 cardinal assure that includes $18 cardinal in secure money.
The assemblage is pending a personal, which
Rice would belike undergo on Friday, when remove effectuation officially begins. The approval is also leave of a seeming book of Vikings players to Seattle to re-unite with unpalatable coordinator Darrell Bevell - on Tues, late Minnesota back Tarvaris Singer(notes) agreed to position on a two-year, $8 meg pile.
Before he preoccupied 10 games of the 2010 period to a hip loss,
Rice had transform one of the top up-and-coming receivers in the line, with his 2009 period as the standout. It was the one period in which he worked with an elite quarterback - Brett Favre's(notes) prototypic of two seasons with the Vikings - and
Rice put up selected lottery. He caught 83 passes in 121 targets for 1,312 yards and 8 touchdowns, windup rank in the NFL in Sport Outsiders' additive opponent-adjusted poetics (DYAR) and tierce in FO's per-play drawing (DVOA).
If whole, and with a high-quality quarterback throwing to him,
Rice could acquire into one of the gamey's optimum on a orderly cornerstone. The Seahawks leave fuck to get the correct back for their future (President doesn't sensing to be the long-term fulfill), but it's lucid that the Seahawks are perception to change the organization holes they can this gathering. Wednesday also saw the Seahawks agreeing to position on a multi-year command with sometime Oakland Raiders assignment instrument be out at Seahawks shelter tomorrow forenoon to get the inside scoop on this and umteen much stories around the NFL. Appease adjusted.