{"id":17106,"date":"2025-05-02T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17106\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:21:22","slug":"the-details-of-tyler-locketts-one-year-contract-with-the-tennessee-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/17106\/","title":{"rendered":"The details of Tyler Lockett\u2019s one-year contract with the Tennessee Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks made the expected yet difficult decision to release beloved wide receiver Tyler Lockett after 10 wonderful seasons with the team. On the eve of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL Draft<\/a>, Lockett announced he\u2019d signed with the Tennessee Titans, now quarterbacked by No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Lockett\u2019s cap hit would\u2019ve been north of $30 million had he stayed in Seattle, but now he\u2019s in Nashville on a much, much cheaper deal. How cheap? Well it\u2019s not vet minimum because Lockett is still way too good for that, but it looks like a bargain for the rebuilding Titans:<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Lockett contract details<\/p>\n<p>Guaranteed salary: $2,860,000<\/p>\n<p>Prorated signing bonus: $630,000<\/p>\n<p>Per-game roster bonus: $510,000 (or $30,000 per game)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>(Via OverTheCap.com)<\/p>\n<p>Lockett also has an extra $2 million he can earn by hitting undisclosed incentives, bringing his maximum contract value to $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subtracting the incentives, Lockett\u2019s $4 million is pretty straight forward. The guaranteed salary plus signing bonus total $3,490,000 in guaranteed money. Only the per-game roster bonus is non-guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>A return on a reduced deal seemingly wasn\u2019t in the cards for the Seahawks and Lockett, and now Seattle will turn over a new leaf at receiver with Jaxon Smith-Njigba as the top target, veteran Cooper Kupp joining as a free agent, and rookies Tory Horton and Ricky White III added to the roster as Day 3 draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks will see Lockett again soon when Seattle plays the Titans in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>More from fieldgulls.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks made the expected yet difficult decision to release beloved wide receiver Tyler Lockett after 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[127,1081,7,2869,6,238,237,261,2635,394,1174,2864],"class_list":{"0":"post-17106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-cam-ward","9":"tag-cooper-kupp","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-tennessee-titans","18":"tag-tory-horton","19":"tag-tyler-lockett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114436563598326019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}