The Seahawks signed free agent wide receiver River Cracraft on Friday, the team announced.
Cracraft spent the past three seasons with the Dolphins. In 2024, he went on injured reserve Aug. 27 with a shoulder injury but returned to play eight games and caught seven passes for 66 yards.
He played 120 offensive snaps and 23 on special teams last season.
Cracraft, who played collegiately at Washington State, began his NFL career on Denver’s practice squad in 2017. He made his regular-season debut for the Broncos in 2018, appearing in eight games with one catch for 44 yards.
Cracraft also spent two seasons with the 49ers, and over seven seasons, he has appeared in 53 games with two starts. He has 32 catches for 374 yards and three touchdowns.
The Seahawks also announced the re-signing of linebacker Josh Ross.
Ross, who the Seahawks claimed off waivers from Baltimore last season, appeared in 10 games for Seattle in 2024. He played 67 percent of the team’s special teams snaps and recorded four tackles.
Ross went undrafted out of Michigan in 2022 and signed with the Ravens. Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald was the defensive coordinator at Michigan in 2021 and the defensive coordinator of the Ravens in 2022-23.
The Dolphins have made a procedural move to help out the club.
Via Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, the franchise has restructured offensive lineman Austin Jackson’s contract for cap space.
The team converted $9.71 million of Jackson’s 2025 salary to a signing bonus, lowering Jackson’s cap hit from $13.83 million to $5.79 million. The move, however, does add $1.9 million to his 2026 cap hit, raising it to $15.8 million from $13.8 million.
Jackson, 25, appeared in eight games for the Dolphins last year, limited by a knee injury. The No. 18 overall pick of the 2020 draft, Jackson has appeared in 56 career games with 54 starts.
The Dolphins have brought back one of their own free agents.
Miami announced the club has re-signed defensive tackle Benito Jones.
Jones, 27, came back to Miami for his second stint with the club last year. He appeared in all 17 games with 15 starts, playing 45 percent of the team’s defensive snaps.
He finished the season with 24 total tackles with four tackles for loss and three quarterback hits.
In 57 games with 30 starts, Jones has recorded eight tackles for loss, 13 quarterback hits, and 2.5 sacks.
Quarterback Zach Wilson isn’t in line for a starting job in Miami, but he is set to move up a rung on the depth chart from last season.
Wilson was the No. 3 quarterback behind Bo Nix and Jarrett Stidham in Denver last year and he’s now on track to be the No. 2 quarterback behind Tua Tagovailoa in Miami. Given Tagovailoa’s injury history, Wilson would seem to have a decent shot at playing time during the 2025 season and he said on a team podcast that he thinks he’ll be able to plug right in if his number is called.
“I think it’s going to be a great fit with what I’m looking for, the type of offense, the amount of information I’ll be able to learn from these guys,” Wilson said, via Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. “I think it couldn’t have been a better match.”
The Dolphins would prefer that Wilson’s fit in the offense remain a theoretical one, but if the moment comes it will give Wilson a chance to show that he can still have a future in the NFL despite his disastrous run as a starter with the Jets.
Veteran linebacker Willie Gay has found a new home.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Gay has agreed to terms with the Dolphins. It will be a one-year deal for Gay with the AFC East club.
Gay spent his first four seasons with the Chiefs before moving on to the Saints as a free agent last year. The 2020 second-round pick had 28 tackles, two sacks, three passes defensed, a forced fumble, and two fumble recoveries in 15 games for New Orleans.
Gay started 47 of the 57 regular season games and all nine postseason games he played in Kansas City. The two-time Super Bowl winner had 290 tackles, 5.5 sacks, three forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries during his time with the Chiefs.
