The NFL offseason has entered the lull at the midpoint between the initial rush of free agency and the draft. It’s been three weeks since the new league year started and the Seattle Seahawks saw several of their free agents depart for elsewhere, including D.J. Reed, Gerald Everett and Ethan Pocic, while keeping many of their own, such as tight end Will Dissly.
Dissly, of course, signed a three-year, $24M contract that ESPN named one of the most head-scratching moves of free agency. There is no doubt that many Seahawks fans disagree with the idea that Dissly was overpaid or that the deal is a head scratcher, but that doesn’t address the question of how the two sides came to agree on the valuation of the contract.