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Rice's days in Seattle are numbered. The Seahawks are likely to part ways with the high-priced wide receiver in order to create salary-cap space to retain key free agents, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday, per a source familiar with the Seahawks' thinking. Another option to create salary-cap room? TE Zach Miller.
Reported by NFL.com
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Rice is due $9.7 million in 2014 and his departure would create $7.3 million in cap savings, giving general manager John Schneider wiggle room to secure Golden Tate and Michael Bennett, the team's biggest free-agent priorities, per Rapoport, who added the team likely will approach Miller with a request to take a pay cut. The Seahawks would save $5 million under the cap if they cut Miller outright. Losing either player wouldn't be a big blow to the Super Bowl champs. Rice has durability concerns: He played in just five games in 2013 and has appeared in all 16 games in a season only once (in 2012). Miller has been a disappointment since coming over from Oakland before the 2011 season. He's been serviceable at best in Seattle, recording just 96 catches over three seasons with the Hawks.
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