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Seahawks mailbag: Revisiting if Seattle could tag-and-trade Earl Thomas, and what to do about special teams

The ramping up of the NFL offseason means lots of questions worth answering out there about the Seahawks. So let’s get to it.

Q: @ianrolfe asked: Assuming (Frank) Clark is not tagged, could Hawks tag and then trade Earl (Thomas) instead of losing him to FA (free agency)?

A: Theoretically yes, practically no. I wrote about this last month, as well, but at that time neglected to mention one key fact of this — tagged players don’t have to sign the Franchise Tag.

That was something former NFL agent Joel Corry, who now writes about salary cap issues for CBSSports.