The Seattle Seahawks plan to release wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling. Valdes-Scantling signed a one-year, $4 million deal in March with $3 million guaranteed for 2025. Seattle expected him to be the third receiver and to help replace speed lost after DK Metcalf was traded, and he had a prior connection to coordinator Klint Kubiak. He was outperformed over the summer by rookie Tory Horton and others, did not play special teams, and logged three catches for 33 yards in the preseason finale first half. The release creates $3 million in dead money and saves roughly $1 million in cap space. Career totals include 205 receptions, 3,566 yards, and 20 touchdowns; he was a 2018 fifth-round pick and won consecutive Super Bowls with the Chiefs in 2022-23.
Valdes-Scantling, 30, had been viewed as a candidate to be traded or released even though Seattle guaranteed him $3 million for 2025. The Seahawks signed the eighth-year veteran to a one-year, $4 million in March, expecting him to be their third receiver and to help replace some of the speed their offense lost after DK Metcalf was traded. He also had a connection to new coordinator Klint Kubiak, who had coached him last season with the New Orleans Saints.
But Valdes-Scantling was outperformed over the summer by rookie fifth-round pick Tory Horton, among others, and his chances of making the 53-man roster as anything but the third receiver seemed slim considering he doesn't play special teams. The most recent evidence that he was in danger of not making the team came in the preseason finale, when he played the entire first half (three catches for 33 yards) despite the Seahawks resting all their starters and most of their veterans.
By releasing Valdes-Scantling, the Seahawks will eat $3 million in dead money while saving around $1 million in cap space. A fifth-round pick by the Green Bay Packers in 2018, Valdes-Scantling has caught 205 passes for 3,566 yards and 20 touchdowns over his career. He spent the 2022 and '23 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, helping them win back to back Super Bowls, and appeared in six games in 2024 with the Buffalo Bills before he was released.
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