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Brady HendersonJul 20, 2025, 04:45 PM ET
- Brady Henderson is simply a newsman for NFL Nation and covers the Seattle Seahawks for ESPN. He joined ESPN successful 2017 aft covering the squad for Seattle Sports 710-AM.
SEATTLE -- The Seahawks released starting choky extremity Noah Fant connected Sunday, the squad announced.
Fant's aboriginal with the Seahawks had been uncertain due to the fact that of his outsized declaration and underwhelming accumulation implicit 3 seasons successful Seattle, and it became an adjacent bigger question aft the squad spent a second-round prime successful April connected choky extremity Elijah Arroyo.
Fant's release, which comes 2 days earlier veterans are owed to study to grooming camp, saves the squad $9 cardinal successful currency and $8.91 cardinal successful headdress space. Seattle volition instrumentality connected $4.5 cardinal successful dormant money.
The Seahawks already had astir $27 cardinal successful headdress abstraction earlier Fant's release, according to OverTheCap.com, though immoderate of their disposable funds could beryllium earmarked for upcoming extensions.
Fant, 27, was acceptable to marque a non-guaranteed $9 cardinal successful the last twelvemonth of a two-year, $21 cardinal deal. The $10.5 cardinal mean of that woody ranked 12th among choky ends, according to OverTheCap.com.
Over his 3 seasons with Seattle, Fant ranks 20th among choky ends successful receptions (130), 21st successful receiving yards (1,400) and tied for 38th successful touchdowns (five). His people successful past season's finale marked his archetypal clip uncovering the extremity portion since precocious successful 2022 -- erstwhile helium was acquired from the Denver Broncos successful the Russell Wilson trade.
Arroyo, whom Seattle drafted with the 50th wide pick, has drawn comparisons to Fant. The Seahawks' extent illustration astatine choky extremity besides includes AJ Barner, who led Seattle's choky ends with 4 TDs past play arsenic a rookie fourth-round pick, and seasoned Eric Saubert.
The lone different choky ends connected Seattle's roster are undrafted rookies, though they besides person Brady Russell, a erstwhile choky extremity who's competing for the fullback occupation aft switching positions this offseason.
Fant spent his archetypal 3 seasons with the Broncos, who drafted him 20th wide retired of Iowa successful 2019. In 47 games with Denver, helium caught 170 passes for 1,905 yards and 10 touchdowns.
