Seahawks Plan to Release Wide Receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling
The Seattle Seahawks will make the decision to release wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, according to sources close to the situation.
Valdes-Scantling, 30, was considered a possible candidate to be traded or released, despite Seattle guaranteeing him $3 million for the 2025 season.
The team signed the eighth-year veteran to a one-year contract for $4 million in March, expecting him to be their third receiver and help replace some of the speed the offense lost.
However, Valdes-Scantling was surpassed during the summer by rookie Tory Horton, among others, and his chances of making the 53-player roster as more than the third receiver seemed slim, considering he doesn’t play on special teams.
The most recent evidence that he was in danger of not making the team came in the last preseason game, when he played the entire first half (three receptions for 33 yards) even though the Seahawks rested all their starters and most of their veterans.
By releasing Valdes-Scantling, the Seahawks will incur $3 million in dead money and save around $1 million in cap space.
Selected in the fifth round by the Green Bay Packers in 2018, Valdes-Scantling has caught 205 passes for 3,566 yards and 20 touchdowns throughout his career. He spent the 2022 and ’23 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, helping them win consecutive Super Bowls, and appeared in six games in 2024 with the Buffalo Bills before being released.
