The 2026 NFL free agency period has been packed with surprises, as usual, and now, the dust is starting to settle.
Free agency allows teams to find players they’ve perhaps been watching from afar with other franchises and bring them over without having to work out a trade. So, NFL free agency is an exciting time in the NFL and marks the last scurry of moves until the NFL draft starts in April.
Now, NFL analysts and experts are grading each team’s moves over the past week and judging the effectiveness of those moves.
In a Friday, February 13 feature for NBC Sports, Kyle Dvorchak grades each team’s free agency changes.
“With the legal tampering period giving teams free rein to start free agency early, most of the big names have found new homes,” he notes in the piece. “Now that the first few waves are behind us, this is how each team grades out from free agency and any recent trades.”
Unfortunately, he gives the Seattle Seahawks, the reigning Super Bowl champions, a D+. It doesn’t get much worse than that.
“The Seahawks clearly think they were at fault for Rashid Shaheed’s slow start in Seattle,” he notes in the piece. “I generally buy that, but not at a $51 million price tag, especially with Klint Kubiak, whose New Orleans connection with Shaheed was the impetus for him joining Seattle, now coaching the Raiders.”
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He adds that if you’re going to do that, “hanging on to Cooper Kupp, who finished 2025 outside the top 50 wideouts in yards per route run, doesn’t make sense.”
Plus, he’s not a fan of them letting Kenneth Walker III walk. On one hand, he doesn’t “mind that they let Ken Walker go” but says that he doesn’t “understand Seattle failing to make a push for another running back.”
“Rico Dowdle, Chris Rodriguez, and Keaton Mitchell all signed affordable, two-year deals that Seattle could have matched. Instead, they got Emanuel Wilson for $2.1 million,” he adds.
So, are these good or bad moves? His vote is the latter.
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