re: Percy Harvin OUT for NFCCG

Patterson was not technically a part of that trade

Xavier Rhodes was taken with the #25 pick acquired from Seattle-- plus a 3rd and a 7th next year.

As a part time starter at CB, he had one less reception than Percy this year.

Seattle is going to be in a tough spot, after the Super Bowl-- they can release Harvin and be free, or they roll the dice and pay him $14 million, fully guaranteed, including the second year of his pro-rated signing bonus.

The real ugly part is the 3 years after that, with a $12 mil plus cap each year, and an 11 mil in his walk year-- they can discharge the last two years, but that'll cost them a one time $7.2 mil dead money hit in 2016.

The Seahawks are going to have a lot of talented young guys to pay. They'll have a combined cap and rollover space of $5ish million to work with, but they are going to see plenty of their young players walking out for better deals-- the Harvin contract is one of the bigger cap lodestones around the league-- the real question will be if the Seahawks have the courage to tell him to go, after this year, when they could better absorb the blow.