Seahawks BREAKING: Frank Clark Signing To Rejoin Seattle; Can He Help Defense?
There were over the summer a number of suggestions on how we might see a Seattle Seahawks reunion with Frank Clark. They were all wrong ... until now.
The free-agent pass rusher - once upon a time selected by Seattle with the No. 63 overall pick in the second round of the 2015 NFL Draft before being traded to the Chiefs in 2019 - is coming home.
All of this happened with Clark first as he agreed to a deal to join the Denver Broncos over the summer. The dollars and sense: It's a "one-year deal worth up to $7.5 million,'' according to ESPN, which adds a more specific breakdown, adding that "the deal includes a $5.5 million guaranteed base salary, $1 million in makeable incentives and another challenging $1 million in incentives.
Frank Clark
That deal caused him to jump from the Chiefs ... but nothing at all worked out in Denver, where the team (featuring QB Russell Wilson, of course) is bad ... and where Clark played just two games during his month and a half there before Denver announced that he would either be traded or cut.
Clark, now 30, was cut. Is there plenty of football left to play? Maybe. Is there still an argument now about Clark's "eliteness''? No ... at least not until the playoffs roll around, which is when Clark excels. Last year he had 2.5 sacks in three games on KC's Super Bowl run. But before that? It was only a five-sack regular season.
Seattle has spent some time being committed to a youth movement to upgrade at this position. But at 4-2, right behind 5-2 San Francisco in the NFC West, maybe every little bit helps. A key contribution from Frank Clark that in any way harkens back to his most successful days and this no-risk deal can have a reward.
