{"id":65265,"date":"2019-05-09T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=65265"},"modified":"2019-05-09T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:33:50","slug":"seattle-seahawks-cut-ties-with-doug-baldwin-kam-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/05\/09\/seattle-seahawks-cut-ties-with-doug-baldwin-kam-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks Cut Ties With Doug Baldwin, Kam Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-part-ways-with-safety-kam-chancellor-receiver-doug-baldwin\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release on Thursday<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/seahawks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> announced that they have terminated the contracts of two of the franchise&#8217;s all-time best players, wide receiver <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BaldDo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug Baldwin<\/a><\/strong> and safety <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/ChanKa99.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kam Chancellor<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Doug Baldwin, Kam Chancellor Released by Seattle Seahawks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Both were released with the failed physical designation. Chancellor has not played since 2017 due to a serious neck injury, and since then it has been expected that he would retire soon.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin missed three games in 2018 due to a neck injury, and according to Ian Rapoport, could be done playing football.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Seahawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Seahawks<\/a> have released WR Doug Baldwin with a failed physical designation, potentially ending his storied career.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1126582572874702849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Around the NFL Draft, news broke that Baldwin&#8217;s multiple knee injuries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/seahawks-doug-baldwin-reportedly-may-have-to-retire-due-to-cumulative-effect-of-multiple-injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may force him to retire<\/a>, and it appears that was the case.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were a part of Seattle&#8217;s 2014 Super Bowl championship and were viewed as among the best at their positions for the majority of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin finished with 493 catches for 6,563 yards and 49 touchdowns. His route running will long be used as an example for young players to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor ended his career with 641 tackles and 44 passes defended. He was a menacing presence in the secondary and a leader of the Legion of Boom.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin and Chancellor are just two examples of Seahawks general manager <strong>John Schneider<\/strong>&#8216;s ability to find diamonds in the rough. Chancellor was a fifth-round selection in 2010 and Baldwin went undrafted a year later, yet both players made multiple Pro Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Chancellor was a huge blow, but his absence is something the team has been able to plan for since 2017. Baldwin is a bigger loss because it was more sudden. Second-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/02\/05\/d-k-metcalf-2019-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>D.K. Metcalf<\/strong><\/a> has some big shoes to fill along with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LockTy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Lockett<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MoorDa03.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Moore<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day for Seattle fans, as two team legends are now gone. But fans still have the memory of the 2014 Super Bowl to hold onto, as well as a promising team moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-OIAckM3TRJncbtZOslm5A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1060371038\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-OIAckM3TRJncbtZOslm5A',sig:'7C0TBIlbaCxODbKu1alxhSdWptIXlwuFrEnQZlHma3s=',w:'594px',h:'406px',items:'1060371038',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release on Thursday, the Seattle Seahawks announced that they have terminated the contracts of two of the franchise&#8217;s all-time best players, wide receiver Doug Baldwin and safety Kam Chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3045,"featured_media":65276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,32],"tags":[643,61,1123,40,179],"class_list":["post-65265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-seahawks","tag-doug-baldwin","tag-football","tag-kam-chancellor","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}