{"id":781473,"date":"2026-02-28T05:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:29:15","slug":"seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-devon-witherspoon-fifth-year-option-salaries-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781473\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks\u2019 Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon fifth-year option salaries revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

This upcoming season will mark the end of the respective rookie deals for JSN and Witherspoon, unless Seattle exercises those fifth-year options exclusive to first-rounders. The NFL announced the values of those fifth-year options on Friday.<\/p>\n

How much are JSN and Witherspoon\u2019s fifth-year options?<\/p>\n

Smith-Njigba\u2019s fifth-year option is valued at $23,852,000, while Witherspoon\u2019s is $21,161,000. Witherspoon is at the highest possible tier as someone who\u2019s made at least two Pro Bowls in his first three seasons. Technically, JSN is a two-time Pro Bowl player, but his 2024 selection was as an alternate, which does not count and thus he\u2019s only directly made one Pro Bowl. That\u2019s the difference between JSN\u2019s fifth-year option being the current value versus $27,298,000.<\/p>\n

What happens if either of JSN or Witherspoon plays on their fifth-year option?<\/p>\n

In a hypothetical world where JSN and \u2018Spoon are somehow on their options in 2027, then that\u2019s over $45 million in salary cap money tied to two players without contract extensions.<\/p>\n

When is the fifth-year option deadline?<\/p>\n

Teams have until May 1 to either exercise or decline fifth-year options. The Seahawks utilized Charles Cross\u2019 option last year and got a deal done with their left tackle in ample time.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This upcoming season will mark the end of the respective rookie deals for JSN and Witherspoon, unless Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,61123,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-781473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-salary-cap","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116146612699927904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781473","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=781473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}