The Seattle Seahawks will signal former Miami Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker to a one-year, $7 million contract, Baker’s brokers, Drew and Jason Rosenhaus, informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday.
The settlement comes a day after Baker met with Seattle following one other free agent go to with the Tennessee Titans. His addition means the Seahawks have crammed each beginning spots at inside linebacker after the departures of Bobby Wagner and Jordyn Brooks; they signed former Buffalo Payments veteran Tyrel Dodson to a one-year deal earlier this week. Brooks agreed to a cope with the Dolphins whereas Wagner signed with the Washington Commanders.
The Dolphins launched Baker on March 5. As a result of Baker was launched by Miami, he will not rely in opposition to the Seahawks’ method for compensatory picks.
Baker, 27, who underwent surgical procedure on his wrist in January and was launched with a failed bodily designation, was the group’s third-round decide in 2018 and has began 82 video games in his six NFL seasons. The beginning inside linebacker was getting into the ultimate yr of a three-year, $37.5 million contract he signed in 2021.
Final season he appeared in 13 video games (12 begins) and had 78 tackles, 2 interceptions and 1.5 sacks. He was positioned on injured reserve in December after injuring an MCL throughout a win over the Commanders on Dec. 3. He returned for the regular-season finale in opposition to the Buffalo Payments however suffered a wrist damage in that recreation that required surgical procedure and stored him out of Miami’s wild-card spherical loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
He has posted three seasons of no less than 100 tackles and has 587 in 94 profession video games. He additionally has 22.5 sacks, 5 interceptions and 6 pressured fumbles in his profession.
Brooks, 26, who secured a three-year contract value $30 million with the Dolphins agent Erik Burkhardt informed Schefter on Monday, remarkably made it again for final season’s opener after tearing his ACL in Week 17 of the 2022 season. He performed in 16 video games for Seattle, lacking one in December with an ankle damage that slowed him over the ultimate six weeks of the season.
He improved as a playmaker, although he completed with 50 fewer tackles than he had in 2022 — going from 161 to 111. He recorded 4.5 sacks after totaling simply two over his first three seasons and returned his first profession interception for a landing.
ESPN employees writers Marcel Louis-Jacques and Brady Henderson contributed to this report.