Mar 30, 2022
Brady HendersonESPN
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Seattle Seahawks’ public comments leave no doubt that they want to extend DK Metcalf but there’s a good amount of uncertainty as to whether they will.
“Yeah,” general manager John Schneider said Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings when asked whether he thinks they’ll get a deal done with the star wide receiver, “that’s our intent.”
That answer from Schneider was similar to the one coach Pete Carroll gave to the same question earlier in the day.
“We intend for him to be with us,” Carroll said. “We’d love to figure that out. We’re in a normal kind of mode this time of the year. We’re not to that topic yet specifically because we’ve got so many other things going on. But we’d love to have him. There’s no way I could imagine playing without him.”
Under normal circumstances, those comments would have quelled any doubt about Metcalf’s future in Seattle. But these aren’t normal times. The top of the wide receiver market has exploded thanks to some recent megadeals that, as Schneider has said, gave him sticker shock.
The Seahawks, meanwhile, are a team in transition — even if not in rebuild mode — after trading quarterback Russell Wilson and cutting another franchise cornerstone in linebacker Bobby Wagner.
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News of the Wilson trade broke a week after Carroll told reporters at the scouting combine that he had “no intention” of parting with him. The plan changed, per Carroll, when Denver made the Seahawks a better offer than anticipated.
The lesson: Seattle’s intent to extend Metcalf hardly assures it’ll happen.
The Metcalf situation began generating serious buzz when Schneider told Seattle Sports 710 AM last week that there was a “sense of shock” at where the wide receiver market has gone. The three deals he mentioned were…
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