Seahawks Veteran Shares How Much Team’s Rookies Spent at Initiation Dinner
The Seattle Seahawks have gotten rock-solid play out of their rookie class in 2023, from the defensive heroics of Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon to the able pass-catching of wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Did their feats exempt them from partaking in the Seahawks' annual rookie dinner? It would appear not.
Early Friday morning, Seattle linebacker Uchenna Nwosu posted a bill from the team's rookie dinner—a common (and controversial) initiation practice throughout football, where a roster dines on a team's rookies' dimes.
Per Nwosu, the Seahawks' bill at El Gaucho Bellevue in Bellevue, Wash., came out to $22,203.60 after tax and service fees.
Rookie Dinner 2023-2024???????? pic.twitter.com/xnc055K4LY
— Uchenna Nwosu (@UchennaN_42) January 5, 2024
To single out Seattle's top pick, that figure is just under 3% of Witherspoon's base salary in '23. Additionally, several of the Seahawks' rookies make under $1 million.
Witherspoon, for his part, is set for a raise to just under $2.2 million in 2024. Bad news for the Seahawks' next rookie class, perhaps?