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Don’t call it a clickbait. On Thursday L.J. Collier Jersey , Heisman-winning quarterback Kyler Murray announced that he would be attending the combine this year, an event that starts just two weeks from next Tuesday. I imagine a lot of people have been and will be comparing him to Russell Wilson, a fact that naturally should lead the Seahawks to being one of the teams that takes a close look at Murray.It’s not as though Pete Carroll and John Schneider are going to be seeking a replacement for Wilson, who has just one year left on the deal he signed in 2015, but it’s also not as though they’ll overlook a potential one when perfect timing rolls outside the pocket. If they were considering Patrick Mahomes in 2017 — when they had virtually no chance at drafting him as it turned out — then obviously they’re going to consider taking a quarterback who might not even be considered a first round pick if not for the groundwork laid down by Carroll and Wilson in the first place. And at a time when that quarterback might actually be in a draftable position for the Seahawks.Seattle is choosing 21st overall and while the expectation is that they’ll trade down in a year when they have just four picks — I’d put those odds over 90%— the front office isn’t going to be so dead set in their “down at all costs” ways as to pass over a potential franchise quarterback when they saw first-hand the value of a quarterback on his rookie deal. Wilson. Mahomes. Jared Goff. Carson Wentz. Dak Prescott. Dashaun Watson. Mitchell Trubisky. In some of those cases, we’ve seen that the quarterback doesn’t even have to be that good. The Jaguars maybe don’t get as far as they did in 2017 if not for adequate play by Blake Bortles and cap space for Calais Campbell, A.J. Bouye, Malik Jackson, Marcell Dareus, and others.Wilson is a $25 million quarterback now. He could be a $35 million quarterback next.There’s also the possibility of a trade either way. Seattle doesn’t have a backup quarterback other than Paxton Lynch right now. Bringing in someone of that status to groom for a year and learn from the guy who is so much like him — under 6’, baseball/football player Ugo Amadi Jersey , kind eyes — almost makes a stupid amount of sense and brings immense relief around an organization that really has nowhere to go if anything happens to Wilson. The Chargers drafted Philip Rivers when they had Drew Brees. The 49ers had Steve Young and Joe Montana simultaneously. There will be questions about Murray’s ability to succeed at the next level and maybe few places that give him as good of an opportunity to be successful — or at least seem successful — than Seattle. We don’t know yet if Murray will be a top five pick and well out of the Seahawks range. We don’t know yet how enamored the Seahawks will or won’t be by Murray as the draft season goes on. But I feel like it would be safe to say that making a connection between the two is warranted — we were already connecting Murray and Wilson long before this. Wednesday the NFL informed teams across the league of the early estimates for the 2019 salary cap that will go into effect in March when the new league year starts. As Adam Schefter reports here, the range the teams were provided to expect is from $187M to $191.1M. The final cap number will be determined over the next month or two as the final revenue numbers are calculated for the next league year. The first question that fans of the Seattle Seahawks obviously want answered is what this new cap means in terms of the team’s ability to retain its pending free agents, as well as to have money to play in free agency. Thus, let’s take a look at the Seahawks 2019 cap situation using the number $190M, which is towards the high end of the range, but will at least put us into the right ballpark. Seahawks 2019 salary cap overviewTotal Cap$190MTotal Cap$190MKeeping that $41M in available money in mind, the team is most certainly expected to cut Kam Chancellor, which will free up $2.8M in space. (Author’s note: Before anyone loses there mind and tells me cutting Kam frees up $8M per OverTheCap.com, please read this regarding his injury guarantees and why cutting Chancellor only saves $2.8M.)So, having added that $2.8M back in for Kam, that puts the team at just under $44M in available space. That’s obviously more than enough for the team to do what it needs to do in terms of retaining its own players Mychal Kendricks Jersey , but there will indeed be some interesting discussions regarding the decisions that need to be made. It was not that long ago that I looked at what the contract status of players for the Seahawks will be this offseason, and now we have some firm estimates from the league regarding what the cap will actually look like. With the league having provided estimates for 2019, it is now possible to get more accurate numbers for the 2019 Restricted Free Agent tags that will be available to teams for players like George Fant. Former agent Joel Corry provided those estimates yesterday on Twitter. We can debate all day who the team should extend and who the team should allow to walk, but what I want to focus on at this moment is the following. Here is a chart of what the salary cap has done since the cap went into effect for the 1994 season. Obviously, that’s a great trend for both the owners and the players alike, as the money being generated is obviously on the rise. However, what I want to draw attention to is that blip in the middle where the cap stagnated for a period of several years. From 2008 until 2013 the cap increased only $7M total, from $116M in 2008 to $123M in 2013, and the reason why was twofold. The first thing was that the players had a new negotiator at the table for the CBA negotiations and they ended up getting a smaller slice of the pie than they had under the old agreement. Secondly, the players elected to defer a larger portion of their slice of the pie to the future in terms of post-playing days health insurance and retirement benefits. Both of those things worked to keep the cap stagnant for almost five full years. It was the stagnation of the cap that forced several teams to let quality players go in 2012 and 2013 for salary cap reasons. In turn, that contributed to the Hawks ability to sign players such as Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril to relatively team friendly contracts in 2013 because teams did not have nearly as much money to play with as they had anticipated heading into the 2010 CBA negotations. That is of course crucial because the current CBA runs out after the 2020 season. There are already rumors of either a lockout by the owners or a strike by the players Steve Largent Color Rush Jersey , and it’s completely possible that the exact same scenario unfolds heading into 2021. I firmly believe this is a major reason why the Seahawks have only ten players under contract for the 2020 season, and not a single player under contract for 2022. In addition, it could easily become a major sticking point in extension negotiations with players like Frank Clark, Russell Wilson, Jarran Reed and Germain Ifedi. Lastly, there are two other factors which I expect could lead to a tightening of the cap space available to teams. The first is an increase in the rookie wage scale, which keeps salaries artificially low for younger players, and pushes money to veterans. Minimum salaries typically see an increase of 15-20% when the league adopts a new CBA, and I fully expect a minimum salary increase to be well above that range this time around. Further, I expect there to be either an expansion of the Proven Performance Escalator, or some other form of incentive program which allows players on their rookie contracts to increase their earnings based on performance and/or playing time. Secondly Patrick Kerney Color Rush Jersey , I will not be surprised if the new CBA includes some form of modification and tightening of the minimum spending requirements for teams. The ability to roll unused cap money over from one year to the next was a new development under the current agreement, and I expect the players to demand an increase in the minimum spending thresholds and requirements. In short, when the new CBA rolls out in 2021 (or 2022 if we lose the 2021 season due to a work stoppage), I expect to see a similar flattening of the cap for several seasons, combined with an increase in salary costs on the lower end for players. That likely results in a cap tightening situation for several of the teams, and will work greatly to the advantage of teams that have retained their future cap flexibility heading into the end of the current CBA.