Overview
- NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport reported that the Seahawks have offered Devon Witherspoon a contract worth “upwards of $30 million” per year, a development cited across multiple outlets on Wednesday.
- Reporters say a Witherspoon deal at that level would formally reset the top-corner market and create comparable expectations for other elite corners.
- Both Witherspoon and Christian Gonzalez share the same agent at Wind Sports, which sources say links the timing and terms of the two extensions and creates a domino effect.
- Gonzalez has used limited offseason participation—he skipped voluntary OTAs and did not fully practice at mandatory minicamp—while the Patriots exercised his fifth-year option to keep team control into 2027.
- With training camp approaching, teams and players face added pressure to complete extensions to avoid distraction and injury risk and to set salary terms before the season starts.