After two years of laboring through a knee injury that left his football future seeming uncertain, right tackle Abraham Lucas received some security from the Seahawks in the form of a three-year contract extension on Thursday.
As first reported by the NFL Network and confirmed to The Seattle Times, the Seahawks and Lucas have agreed on a deal worth up to $46 million with a chance to be add more through incentives.
As a third-round pick in 2022, Lucas, a former WSU standout, was set to become a free agent at the end of the upcoming season. He is due to make a salary of $3.4 million this season on a deal that could have paid up to $7.3 million overall.
Now, that year of the deal will be ripped up and two more added on, keeping Lucas under contract through the 2027 season.
Further contract details were not yet immediately available.
Lucas played just 13 games the past two seasons due to a lingering knee injury; he had knee surgery following the 2023 season. That included playing just six games in 2023, and then missing the first nine games of the 2024 season before returning and starting seven games, and sitting out the the final game with an abdominal injury.
But Lucas has been fully healthy throughout training camp this year as he has re-established himself as the team’s right tackle of the present and future at the age of 26.
Lucas started 16 games as a rookie in 2022 after arriving as the 72nd overall pick.
Lucas, a native of Everett, attended Archbishop Murphy High School.
Lucas is the first member of Seattle’s heralded 2022 draft class to receive an extension, though the team did earlier exercise an option on the contract of left tackle Charles Cross for the 2026 season.
Seattle is thought also to be hoping to eventually work out a longterm deal with Cross.
But that likely won’t happen until after this season as the Seahawks have a long-standing policy of not signing players to extensions who have more than a year remaining on their current deal.
For now, the Seahawks know for sure they have their offensive tackles set for the next two years at the least.
Lucas becomes the first offensive lineman the Seahawks have drafted to sign a second contract with the team of any length since 2017 second-round pick Ethan Pocic signed a one-year deal with the team following the 2020 season. Lucas is the first to sign a multi-year extension since Justin Britt, a second-rounder in 2014 who signed a three-year extension in 2017.
Aside from Cross and Lucas, Seattle has a handful of other players who were taken in the 2022 draft who could also be candidates for an extension either now or after the season, notably running back Kenneth Walker III, rush end Boye Mafe, safety Coby Bryant and cornerback Riq Woolen.
Asked last week about the possibility of extensions for members of the class of 2022, general manager John Schneider said talks are “always going on.”
“It depends on the individual, where they are, how they’re performing, or what their story is,” Schneider added. “Everybody has a different story. There’s a lot that goes on behind closed doors, and we’re proud that we can keep that in house. We love our guys and we’ll keep working with them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t, just have to move on to the next guy. We will never stop trying to do that, but there isn’t one just standard philosophy, other than the fact that since we got here, Mr. (Paul) Allen (former team owner) and his philosophy is that we wouldn’t do anything without one year out. So, we’ll continue that route.”
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Bob Condotta: bcondotta@seattletimes.com. Bob Condotta is a sports reporter at The Seattle Times who primarily covers the Seahawks but also dabbles in other sports. He has worked at The Times since 2002, reporting on University of Washington Husky football and basketball for his first 10 years at the paper before switching to the Seahawks in 2013.