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3rd for darron lee? GTFO. 5th or 6th at most. He’s soft as butter.
 
To be clear, I wouldn't trade a 3rd. Maybe a 5th at most.
Was thinking the same.
Considering this is an extremely weak LB draft and we have three 5th round picks, this is exactly where I fall.

Swing a 5th for a linebacker with 4.4 speed and see if he can resurrect his career here in our 4-3.
 
What Dorsey has done with 5th round picks in draft past--

Sanders Commings
Aaron Murray
DJ Alexander
James O'Shaughnessy
Kevin Hogan
Tyreek Hill
Ukeme Eligwe
Genard Avery

As you can see, 5th round picks have a low probability of becoming contributing players but when they do they hold tremendous value because their production far outweighs their financial impact..

While a 5th for Lee is not particularly prohibitive, what smart teams are doing is pick-swapping where the Browns would essentially send the value of a 5th round pick in a trade to the Jets but not lose their selection... For example the Browns send 5th round pick (144) to the Jets for their 6th round pick (196) which equates to a low 5th/high 6th round pick...
 
Seahawks cut Doug Baldwin and kam chancellor today.


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Sounds like Baldwin is retiring but chancellor if he can get healthy, huge if, would be a great add
 
He hasn't played since 2017 and retired in 2018, so I'd say it's unlikely lol.

I’m not saying your wrong but if you’re right

The Seahawks just became the first team ever to cut a guy no longer on their team

And just to confirm, chancellor hasn’t retired. This most likely pushes him over the edge but dude did not retire in 2018
 
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I’m not saying your wrong but if you’re right

The Seahawks just became the first team ever to cut a guy no longer on their team

And just to confirm, chancellor hasn’t retired. This most likely pushes him over the edge but dude did not retire in 2018

I don't see how you can "disagree" with a fact. He suffered a career-ending neck injury and said he is retiring. There's nothing to disagree with here?

They kept him around because he had an injury guarantee in his contract anyways so it wasn't costing them anything. They just kept him around to be around the team kind of like Ryan Shazier with PIT. Now they finally had to cut him or else they would have owed him more money. Obviously they're going to cut a guy that isn't going to play again.
 
I don't see how you can "disagree" with a fact. He suffered a career-ending neck injury and said he is retiring. There's nothing to disagree with here?

They kept him around because he had an injury guarantee in his contract anyways so it wasn't costing them anything. They just kept him around to be around the team kind of like Ryan Shazier with PIT. Now they finally had to cut him or else they would have owed him more money. Obviously they're going to cut a guy that isn't going to play again.
So it sounds like what you're saying is he didn't retire
 
Technically he didn't retire due to financial reasons, but he's done playing. This article explains it pretty well...

Eight months after suffering a neck injury that cost him the final seven games of 2017 and fueled speculation he would never play again, Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor confirmed on Twitter that he wasn't medically cleared to play football.

God has given me a sign that I just can’t ignore. [...] To walk away from the game by choice is one thing, to walk away from the game because of the risk of paralysis is another. My final test showed no healing. I put all my blood, sweat, and tears into this game.

Chancellor never specifically wrote the words "retire" or "retirement" in his tweet, and that is significant legally but not materially for what we'll see on the football field. As Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times wrote:





Chancellor remained on Seattle’s roster because his contract included injury guarantees of $6.8 million in 2018, and $5.2 million in 2019, which meant that Seattle was better off financially hanging on to Chancellor and hoping he could pass a physical.

Chancellor’s 2018 base salary of $6.8 million became guaranteed in February. If he retired, he would give up his injury guarantee for 2019. But the team could also work out a settlement, or Chancellor could simply retire and walk away from the rest of his deal.

So Chancellor's not retired; he'll just never play football again. It's a shame we have to tiptoe around the meaning of words when writing about a player who never left a doubt on the field. In the four consecutive years the Seahawks posted the NFL's top-ranked scoring defense, Chancellor was the least heralded member of the Legion of the Boom triumvirate — he was selected to four Pro Bowls, but never made first team All-Pro, something that Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman both did from 2012-14.​
 

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