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Seahawks’ Uchenna Nwosu Reveals How Much Rookies Spent at Team Initiation Dinner

Seattle's first-year players received a rude welcome to professional life.

Patrick Andres

Seahawks’ Uchenna Nwosu Reveals How Much Rookies Spent at Team Initiation Dinner
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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.

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?

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Patrick Andres
PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .

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