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Former Seahawks wide receiver Nate Burleson signs with Detroit, good news for Mike Hass
With several holes to fill on a 5-11 team, the Seattle Seahawks figure to be pretty active during the free agency period.
Add wide receiver up as a top priority.
Wide receiver Nate Burleson has signed a five-year contract worth $25 million ($11 million guaranteed) with Detroit,
as reported Thursday night by the Seattle Times.
Allowing Burleson to get away is not at all a surprise. He missed nearly all of the 2008 season and his best year in Seattle came in 2009 when he caught 63 passes for 812 yards and three touchdowns. How that type of production earns one a $25 million contract is a mystery. But that's for Detroit fans to unravel.
For Seattle, the question now is who is going to start opposite T.J. Houshmandzadeh?
With Deion Branch less than reliable and rookie Deion Butler still unproven, the answer could be floating around in the free agent pool.
Anquan Boldin and Brandon Marshall are just a couple of the big name wide receivers that Seattle could try to sign.
Burleson's departure leaves Seattle with seven wide receivers. Among them is former Oregon State star Mike Hass.
For now, Hass is the team's No. 5 wide receiver behind Houshmandzadeh, Branch, Butler and Ben Obomanu.
According to a source close to Hass, the hiring of Pete Carroll as Seattle's coach certainly didn't hurt the wide receivers chances of making the team in 2010.
Carroll has long been known to have an affinity for Hass, whom he coached against in the Pacific-10 Conference while at USC.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/nfl/2010/03/former_seahawks_wide_receiver.html