Seahawks land LB Baker with 365 days, $7M

The Seattle Seahawks signed historical Miami Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker on Saturday, the crew announced.

The worn landed a one-year, $7 million contract, Baker’s brokers, Drew and Jason Rosenhaus, instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter, an settlement that comes a day after Baker met with Seattle following any other free agent focus on over with with the Tennessee Titans.

Baker’s addition draw the Seahawks have filled both starting spots at inner linebacker after the departures of Bobby Wagner and Jordyn Brooks; they signed historical Buffalo Payments worn Tyrel Dodson to a one-year deal earlier this week. Brooks agreed to a tackle the Dolphins whereas Wagner signed with the Washington Commanders.

The Dolphins released Baker on March 5. Because Baker was released by Miami, he would possibly well well well now not depend in opposition to the Seahawks’ formula for compensatory picks.

Baker, 27, who underwent surgery on his wrist in January and was released with a failed bodily designation, was the crew’s third-round pick in 2018 and has started 82 video games in his six NFL seasons. The starting inner linebacker was getting into the closing year of a 3-year, $37.5 million contract he signed in 2021.

Closing season he appeared in 13 video games (12 begins) and had 78 tackles, 2 interceptions and 1.5 sacks. He was positioned on injured reserve in December after injuring an MCL all the draw in which by a receive over the Commanders on Dec. 3. He returned for the authorized-season finale in opposition to the Buffalo Payments but suffered a wrist anguish in that sport that required surgery and saved him out of Miami’s wild-card round loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

He has posted three seasons of on the least 100 tackles and has 587 in 94 occupation video games. He furthermore has 22.5 sacks, 5 interceptions and 6 forced fumbles in his occupation.

Brooks, 26, who secured a 3-year contract worth $30 million with the Dolphins agent Erik Burkhardt instructed Schefter on Monday, remarkably made it back for final season’s opener after tearing his ACL in Week 17 of the 2022 season. He performed in 16 video games for Seattle, missing one in December with an ankle anguish that slowed him over the closing six weeks of the season.

He improved as a playmaker, though he completed with 50 fewer tackles than he had in 2022 — going from 161 to 111. He recorded 4.5 sacks after totaling honest correct two over his first three seasons and returned his first occupation interception for a touchdown.

ESPN staff writers Marcel Louis-Jacques and Brady Henderson contributed to this recount.