The Seattle Seahawks 2019 offseason is here after a long but successful retool in 2018. Despite protests from outside of their building, the Seahawks stuck to their guns and trusted their process enough to land right back in the playoffs in 2019 and now they'll be able to continue that process this offseason.

The Seahawks have nine restricted free agents and they have varying degrees of importance. According to OverTheCap.com, the Seahawks started with about $33 million in cap space; so they could essentially bring back whoever they want. The question at hand is who's worth having the right of first refusal on and who's better left lapsing into unrestricted free agency?

Let's examine all the Seahawks restricted free agents.

Here's how restricted free agency works. The Seahawks have three tender offers to make at their disposal. In 2019, the original-round tender is $2.025 million, the second-round tender was $3.095 million and the first-round tender was $4.407 million. The Seahawks can also choose not to offer any tender and let the restricted free agent lapse into unrestricted free agency. Here's what the tenders mean.

All tenders give the Seahawks right of first refusal on a contract offer a player signs with another team if that free agent chooses to shop his services away from Seattle; the difference amounts to the compensation returned if Seattle elects not to match. The original round tender means the Seahawks would get a draft pick based on where that free agent was drafted. So if the player was drafted in the fourth round, the opposite team would forfeit a fourth-round pick to the Seahawks. The second-round tender means the Seahawks get a second-round pick from the offering team. And obviously the first-round tender means an automatic first-round pick if the Seahawks don't match.

If the Seahawks choose to tender a player and he signs no offer sheet with another team, he stays in Seattle on a one-year deal for his tender amount. With Akeem King being the first restricted free agent to reportedly sign, here's where the Seahawks stand on their other restricted free agents.

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