Seahawks sign punter Michael Dickson to four-year, $14.5M extension

The Seahawks are locking down their punter long-term. Michael Dickson agreed to a four-year extension to stay in Seattle on Friday, former quarterback Mark Sanchez reports.

It is a four-year, $14.5M add-on for the fourth-year punter, with Mike Garafolo of NFL.com confirming Sanchez's report. This will tie Dickson to the Seahawks through the 2025 season. The former fifth-round pick will see $10.6M in the contract’s first two years.

Performance-based incentives could take the contract north of $4M per year, Garafolo adds. Rams perennial All-Pro Johnny Hekker resides as the NFL’s highest-paid punter, at $3.75M per year.

The first of three punters drafted in 2018, Dickson quickly became one of the NFL’s best punters. The strong-legged Australian earned first-team All-Pro recognition as a rookie and in 2020 averaged a career-high 49.6 yards per punt.

Dickson became the rare specialist to leave for the draft after his junior season, doing so after winning the Ray Guy Award in 2017 and finishing as the Big 12’s special teams player of the year as a sophomore. He now looks like the Seahawks’ long-term successor to Jon Ryan, who held this gig from 2006 to 2017.