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After winning Super Bowl LX this past 2025 season, the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> have needed to make tough decisions as key players from the championship run have moved on. <\/p>\n Kenneth Walker<\/a> III is now with the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, while Riq Woolen took a deal with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>. Nonetheless, not every pending free agent left Seattle for greener pastures. One of the key players from the Super Bowl run re-signed with the Seahawks.<\/p>\n Wide receiver\u00a0Rashid Shaheed<\/a> and the Seahawks agreed on a three-year, $51 million deal that includes $34.7 million guaranteed, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>. <\/p>\n After joining Seattle in a midseason trade from the New Orleans Saints<\/a>, Shaheed quickly made his mark, especially with his explosive contributions on returns during the team\u2019s Super Bowl run. On March 12, Seahawks general manager John Schneider spoke about keeping Shaheed. <\/p>\n \u201cLike Rashid, for instance, we thought that was going to be very difficult to get him back,\u201d Schneider said on Seattle Sports\u2019 \u201cWyman and Bob.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe just hung with it, hung with it, and he really wanted to be here. He loved his experience here. He loves everybody in the building, and we gave two draft picks for him. So that one was okay. That was hard, so we were able to stay in range with him\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cEvery year is a little bit different when you\u2019re planning and trying to place guys, their salary ranges and where you can and can\u2019t go. Certain position groups just go through these different phases. There\u2019s this ebb and flow of these salary ranges at every position every year. It\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n Seahawks Weren\u2019t Going to Pay Top Dollar for Kenneth Walker III<\/p>\n Nonetheless, the Seahawks did lose Walker, and former Seahawks cornerback\u00a0Richard Sherman<\/a>\u00a0shared his thoughts on the two sides parting ways, noting that it was best for both to go their separate paths.<\/p>\n \u201cThey lose the Super Bowl MVP, which is something I predicted because of the number that he was going to get to,\u201c\u00a0Sherman said on the March 9 edition of \u201cThe Richard Sherman Podcast.\u201c<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI thought other teams, like the Kansas City Chiefs, would be higher on him and have a higher number. And he gets what I believe is the highest per year for a free agent running back in the history of the National Football League at $15 million a year. And he deserves it.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s going to go out there and do fantastic for the Chiefs, and I think the Seattle Seahawks will be fine. I don\u2019t think this is going to be something that is incredibly detrimental to what they have going. I think this is a situation where what\u2019s best for both sides kind of happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Seattle Had to Make a Tough Call on Kenneth Walker III<\/p>\n Still, Sherman understands that the Seahawks have to look ahead, as they will need to pay players like\u00a0Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a>\u00a0who are coming up for an extension.<\/p>\n \u201cCould the Seattle Seahawks maintain and keep all the guys that they\u2019re going to have to pay [Devon] Witherspoon and JSN, and all the rest of the guys who they are going to have to shell out some money, too, and keep K9? I don\u2019t think they would, \u201c\u00a0Sherman added.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think they took the lesser of these evils and said, \u2018Hey, K9, this is what we can offer you. If you can go out there and get a huge bag, then congratulations, we love you. You\u2019ll be a Seahawk for life. You\u2019ll be a Super Bowl MVP with the Seattle Seahawks for the rest of your life. \u2018<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s going to be a beautiful thing. But I don\u2019t think they wanted to prohibit him from going out there and getting his bag, which is what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tEduardo Razo<\/a> Eduardo Razo is a sports writer for Heavy.com, covering the NFL, MLB, and college football. He has previously covered the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB for NBC Sports Washington and NBC Sports Bay Area & California, and has freelanced for PSG Talk, covering Paris Saint-Germain. He also worked as an editor at Athlon Sports, focusing on MLB and the NFL. 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