{"id":223991,"date":"2025-07-21T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/223991\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:14:18","slug":"noah-fant-who-was-in-the-russell-wilson-trade-dumped-by-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/223991\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Fant, who was in the Russell Wilson trade, dumped by Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Denver Broncos tight end Noah Fant, who was part of the infamous Russell Wilson trade, is being released by the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>The move will save Seattle nearly $9 million against the salary cap as Fant was going into the final year of his deal.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Seahawks have announced they have released tight end Noah Fant. Fant was due a non-guaranteed salary of $8.49 million this year and the move saves $8.91 million against the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Condotta (@bcondotta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcondotta\/status\/1947019133218140631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Broncos <a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/the-broncos-just-pulled-off-a-blockbuster-trade-for-russell-wilson\/2097249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rocked the NFL world in March of 2022 when they acquired Wilson from the Seahawks<\/a> in exchange for Noah Fant, QB Drew Lock, DL Shelby Harris, two first-round picks, two second-round picks and more. GM George Paton pulled the trigger one of the biggest trade in league history, one that ended in disaster for Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The team eventually released Wilson after the 2023 season, <a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/the-dead-money-hit-on-russell-wilson-obliterates-league-record\/2111179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">taking on the largest dead cap hit in NFL history<\/a>. Meanwhile, Harris is gone from Seattle, Lock left and then returned, and now Fant is looking for a new home.<\/p>\n<p>In 48 games with the Seahawks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FantNo00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fant caught 130 passes for 1,400 yards and five touchdowns<\/a>. Seattle drafted tight end Elijah Arroyo in the second-round this year, so clearly they felt Noah Fant was expendable. The 27-year-old has six professional seasons under his belt, including the first three of his career in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos spent a first-round pick on Fant in 2019, hoping he\u2019d be their best tight end since Julius Thomas, but it never really worked out. His career-bests with Denver were 673 yards receiving in 2020 and four touchdowns in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Fant will be on the open market, and should find a new team relatively soon. But as the Wilson trade gets further and further away, it\u2019s a good reminder life happens relatively quickly in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PetersenWill\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @PetersenWill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/daily\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DenverSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DenverSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Denver Broncos tight end Noah Fant, who was part of the infamous Russell Wilson trade, is being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,3658,231,258,2426,7,6,3657],"class_list":{"0":"post-223991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-colorado-denvers-sports-station-104-3-the-fan","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports-radio-104-3-the-fan-denver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114889992788405088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223991","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=223991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}