Trufant signed to 6 year $50 million deal

by notor @ Field Gulls on Mar 26, 2008 11:33 AM PDT

Update: Isn't this community great? Thanks to notor for breaking the news. Looks like a fair contract. Good for the Seahawks, good for Tru. Marcus Trufant Retro will be up shortly.

20 million in guaranteed money, 34 million over the first 4 years.

Glad that's all over and done with, I'm not sure exactly how much cap room this saves us but we shouldn't have any problems signing draft picks and whatnot now.

As for the contract itself, I think it's a pretty good deal for the franchise, in that it's significantly less than Asante Samuel or stifles laugh DeAngelo Hall's contracts, which were around what Trufant was looking for.

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Nice

Tubbs, Bernard and Hill are the only main guys on D not locked up for the next two years.

I wonder how this is gonna hurt our cap next year though...

by Strang on Mar 26, 2008 7:14 AM PDT reply actions

Nice

Coach Owens = Scruffy's spell check

by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 26, 2008 7:18 AM PDT reply actions

Here's hoping

it's another deal designed to take the maximum hit this season.

by The Ancient Mariner on Mar 26, 2008 8:04 AM PDT reply actions

Amazing!

To be honest, I didn't think a long term deal was going to be reached. Maybe its pessism, but I really felt that he was going to leave us like Josh Brown did for a big pay day.

I'm almost certain that Lofa's signing and his comments regarding a team commitment rather than an individual payday played at least a minor role in Tru's decision to accept a smaller contract than what he would have recieved in FA.

You can't tell me that seeing other teammates restructure their own contracts in order to keep a goood team dynamic didn't have some affect on Tru.

Anyway, what great news!

by Freezman on Mar 26, 2008 8:12 AM PDT reply actions