{"id":794729,"date":"2026-03-05T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:31:13","slug":"seahawks-2026-free-agency-seahawks-extend-linebacker-drake-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/794729\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks 2026 free agency: Seahawks extend linebacker Drake Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After a week full of departure rumors, the Seattle Seahawks are reportedly going to keep one of their defensive standouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Drake Thomas &#8211; who was not in as much danger as a restricted free agent anyway &#8211; nevertheless gets a two-year extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As an undrafted free agent, Thomas was one of the preseason snatcheroos by John Schneider in August of 2023, claiming him off waivers from the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Just two years later, he earned his way to be a starting linebacker alongside Ernest Jones IV as one of the hardest hitters on the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is Thomas\u2019 first big payday, fantastic for him, and relative across the NFL, $4-4.5 million per year for a standout starting linebacker is fantastic for the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We all know they can\u2019t keep everybody, but this is a strong start to the offseason for Schneider and Seattle. Welcome back to the good guys, Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a week full of departure rumors, the Seattle Seahawks are reportedly going to keep one of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,6545,718,719,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-794729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-free-agency","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","16":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116178943395219053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794729","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=794729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}