Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon’s approach to the game over his first three seasons landed him a big new contract this month.
Witherspoon became the highest-paid player at the position when he agreed to a four-year, $132 million extension. The agreement came a few months after his fellow 2023 first-round pick Jaxon Smith-Njigba landed a huge deal of his own and the two deals cement the players as franchise cornerstones as they come off their Super Bowl win.
During a Monday press conference, Witherspoon was asked if that kind of commitment adds pressure or takes pressure off of him as he heads into the season. Witherspoon fell somewhere in the middle because his feeling is that it won’t change anything about his approach to the game.
“I think it’s a little bit of both, but I don’t think it does nothing to me,” Witherspoon said. “I’m going to be me every day. Ain’t nothing going to change about me, so I don’t really see it no type of way.”
Witherspoon’s approach has been a winning one so far and not breaking something that doesn’t need fixing should be a popular opinion about how to approach the 2026 campaign.
