Seattle Seahawks: Weighing the Branch

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Published: August 27, 2009

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... salary cap space.

The Seahawks managed to bring in 23 new players and only lose four.

A lot of those players came with reasonably sized contracts a la TJ Houshmandzadeh (five years, $40 million with $15 million guaranteed), Colin Cole (five years, $21 million with $5 million guaranteed), and Aaron Curry (six years, $60 million with $34 million guaranteed).

The Seahawks went with a lot of one-year contracts this offseason, including the signings of CB Ken Lucas ($1.3 million), DE Cory Redding ($2 million), FB Justin Griffith (league minimum), and CB Travis Fischer.

Then, of course, you have all of the undrafted free agent signings and the rookie signings.

Four days ago the Seahawks signed running back Edgerrin James to a one-year, $2 million contract. In doing so, they cut ties with RB T.J Duckett, saving about $2 million in cap space.

Now the Seahawks have Deion Branch who, in reality, is one of the nicest and funniest guys I've had the hono...

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