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Derick Hall Isn’t Going Anywhere. The Bleeding Stops Here.
Derick Hall has a new contract and a guaranteed future in Seattle. The Seahawks and Hall agreed Tuesday to a three-year, $42 million extension that includes $21 million guaranteed and can climb to $46.5 million with incentives, his agents told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The man who was entering the final year of his rookie deal is now tied to Seattle through the 2029 season.
If you’ve been reading this thing for the last three months, you know exactly why this matters. Kenneth Walker walked. Boye Mafe walked. Riq Woolen walked. Coby Bryant walked. Every time a young Seahawk hit the open market this offseason, he found a reason to leave, and the fanbase developed a low-grade twitch every time a name on an expiring rookie deal came up. Hall was the next one on that list. SI on Seahawks flat-out called him the next young star likely to leave. Schneider looked at that pattern and decided the leak ends now.
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Schneider looked at the pattern of young stars walking out the door and decided the leak ends now.
Hall’s 2025 numbers won’t make you spit out your coffee. He posted just 4 sacks. But the underneath stuff is the tell: 41 pressures, 27 hurries, 11 quarterback hits, and a 73.3 PFF grade that ranked him 37th of 115 qualified edge defenders. That’s a productive rotational piece you build around, not a finished product. The bet here is on the motor and the bend, and on Mike Macdonald turning a good edge rusher into a problem.
And the price is the part Schneider will frame and hang on the wall. Hall’s $14 million per year ranks 27th among edge rushers, per A to Z Sports. In a year where Will Anderson reset the non-QB market at $50 million and the Browns got a Hall of Famer’s ransom for Myles Garrett, locking up a 25-year-old ascending edge for backup-money APY is exactly the kind of quiet surgery that keeps a champion young and cheap.
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Hall’s average per year ranks just 27th among NFL edge rushers, per A to Z Sports.
This was the last open question in the edge room. Fowler signed. Lawrence came back. Nwosu stayed. And now Hall, the kid doctors gave a 1% chance to survive birth, has gone from a worry to a four-year cornerstone. Four free-agent losses, four patches, and now one of those patches is permanent.
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The Seahawks Sale Went From ‘Soft’ to ‘Sell By August’
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Rewind two weeks. ESPN had sources calling buyer interest ‘soft’ and the $11 billion valuation deflating toward $9 billion. Then Goodell stood up at the Orlando owners meeting and insisted there was ‘tremendous interest.’ Now the narrative has flipped entirely, and the price could eclipse $10 billion. Either the interest was always there or the league found a way to manufacture some. Take your pick.
None of this touches the football. Schneider just extended Hall, the draft class is signed, OTAs are rolling. But somewhere a billionaire is about to buy a Super Bowl champion with a generational receiver locked through 2031, and the only thing standing between him and a banner is a closing date and Washington’s millionaire tax. Worse problems exist.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
With Hall locked up, the next domino everyone’s watching is Devon Witherspoon, whose extension still isn’t close after Seattle made an initial offer weeks ago. Spoon showed up to voluntary work he was told to skip. The man is making the case in person while the negotiation sits parked in neutral. ESPN
OTAs resume today at the VMAC with sessions on the June 3-4 calendar before mandatory minicamp June 9-11. Three of the six sessions are open to reporters, which means this is one of your last windows for real football intel before everyone disappears until late July. Seahawks.com
Hall was originally drafted with one of the picks Seattle got back in the infamous Russell Wilson trade, per Yahoo Sports. So the Wilson deal is still paying dividends in 2026, three years and one Super Bowl later. The gift that keeps on giving, even from Denver. Yahoo Sports
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
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Puka Nacua spoke at OTAs and, asked if he’s comfortable playing out his rookie deal without an extension, said he ‘hasn’t really thought about it.’ He’s making roughly $5.8 million while JSN makes $42.15 million, and his next deal is being predicted as ‘record-setting’ with speculation running north of $200 million. Nobody on earth has thought about a number harder than this man has pretended not to. The Stafford extension cleared the runway. The clock is now very loud in Woodland Hills.
NINERS
While Seattle locked up its 25-year-old edge rusher through 2029, San Francisco held OTAs and waited, again, on Trent Williams, who’s now ‘expected’ to report next week. In Trent Williams time, ‘next week’ has historically meant ‘whenever the mood strikes.’ The 49ers keep building an all-in roster around a left tackle who treats voluntary work as theoretical and turns 38 in July. Nothing says championship window like an annual disappearing act.
CARDINALS
The Josh Sweat garage sale everyone penciled in just lost its best customer. A Packers insider slammed the brakes on the Green Bay trade buzz, calling it ‘not a thing at this point.’ So Arizona’s disgruntled team sack leader stays put, the post-June-1 savings window mocks them from the calendar, and the franchise that paid $76 million for one season of edge rusher gets to keep him whether he wants to be there or not. The garage sale opened and nobody came.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
Which Seahawks wide receiver of the 1980s earned the nickname ‘The Touchdown Maker’ and still holds an NFL record for the highest touchdown-to-reception ratio among players with at least 30 career scores?
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Daryl Turner. He scored 36 touchdowns on just 101 career catches across four seasons in Seattle, a TD rate so absurd it remains an NFL record. He also set the franchise single-season receiving touchdown mark with 13 in 1985.
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Hall stays. The edge room's whole. Witherspoon's watching with his arms crossed. Go Hawks. — The Rooster