The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks watched cornerback Riq Woolen agree to sign with the former defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles Tuesday.
That, of course, means that the Seahawks will be looking to fill the void created by the departure of Woolen and the loss of the 3,780 defensive snaps he played for Seattle over the past four seasons, including 817 regular season snaps during the 2025 campaign.
Initial reports on the contract Woolen and the Eagles agreed to were littered with the ‘up to’ language that is all too common during free agency as agents work to hype up their clients and their work. The question, therefore, quickly became how much of Woolen’s Eagles contract is in the form of base salary and how much is in the form of incentives.
Jason Fitzgerald of [OverTheCap.com](http://overthecap.com) has now answered that question.
So, that’s simple enough, as $12M of Woolen’s contract is in the form of base salary, with the remaining $3M available through incentives. No word yet on exactly what those incentives are or how likely they are to be earned, but Field Gulls will be here to update readers on the specifics of those incentives when they become known.
In addition, for those curious, the base value of $12M is what will be used for comp pick calculations, meaning Woolen’s departure puts Seattle in line to potentially earn yet another comp pick, this one solidly in the fifth round range. And for those curious, since there will certainly be questions about this in the comment section, if Woolen maxes out the incentives and earns the full $15M, it would leave the projected comp pick in the fifth round.