Quinton Dunbar says he wanted to be in Seattle, contract won’t be an issue

Posted by Curtis Crabtree on March 26, 2020, 11:26 PM EDT
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New Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar comes to Seattle after a trade from the Washington Redskins earlier this week with just one year remaining on his current contract.

Dunbar had expressed a desire to get out of Washington with the status of his contract being one sticking among several he had come to have against his previous team. Dunbar is set to make $3.25 million in base salary this season from Seattle. However, in an interview with 710 ESPN Seattle on Thursday, Dunbar said the contract wouldn’t be a problem for his new team.

“It wasn’t all solely based on a new contract,” Dunbar said of his displeasure with Washington. “It was about just, basically, I gave a lot to the Washington Redskins organization. It was more just a respect factor in that situation with the contract. It didn’t have to be based solely on an extension or anything like that. But no, it’s not going to be an issue in Seattle.”

Dunbar said he had a few teams interested in him through trades but that the Seahawks were the place he wanted to be. He has worked with Marquand Manuel in the development of his cornerback technique. Manuel is now with the Philadelphia Eagles but used to be in Seattle under head coach Pete Carroll and followed Dan Quinn to Atlanta when he got the head coaching job with the Falcons after the Seahawks’ Super Bowl XLIX loss to the New England Patriots. Already having a feel for the way Seattle asks their cornerbacks to play and their track record of success made them the most desirous option for him,

“Before the trade was given I had an opportunity with a couple of teams and I wanted to go to Seattle,” Dunbar said. “At the end of the day I feel like it’s a perfect situation for me to go out there and play for a team that competes for a championship every year. So I’m just looking forward to that and everything will take care of itself. I just wanted a new beginning and I’m just going to go out there and help in whichever way I can. Everything else will take care of itself.”

Dunbar had a career-high four interceptions for Washington in 11 games played for the team.

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13 responses to “Quinton Dunbar says he wanted to be in Seattle, contract won’t be an issue”

  2. Nice comments but his agent fell off his chair and was shouting stop. Unfortunately, he was practicing social distancing so he wasn’t there in person.

    Seattle won’t overpay. If he does well, I would expect the Seahawks to offer a Market value, long term contract near Or at the end of the season. I just don’t see it happening sooner.

  3. Clowney also ‘wanted to play for the Seahawks’ right after he was traded, with the no franchise clause, and today he sits as an unsigned FA, because he wants more then he’s worth the GM, John Schneider pays correctly, not more then you’re worth… well, unless your initials are RW.

  4. Dunbar is a very good corner when healthy. For all their faults, he is still the league because the Redskins switched him from wide receiver to cornerback. Dunbar put in the work but the previous coaching staff gave him the opportunity.

  5. Funny how he seems to have zero appreciation for the organization that recognized he was a weak receiver and moved him to corner. That being said, Dunbar had incredible talent, just a shame that he was on the injury report week in and week out.

  6. If you play for the Redskins, you’d better be prepared to be shown no respect. Dan Snyder’s culture permeates the organization–it’s not a people friendly place.

  7. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. ROFTL. Penny-pinching Mode is going to show him “respect” by asking him to work for peanuts after the 2020 season. Beast Mold wanted respect too, and that meant having his salary raised substantially. It chapped the hide of Petey so much that he basically forced Beast Mold to retire.

  8. jshawaii22 says:
    March 27, 2020 at 2:16 am
    Clowney also ‘wanted to play for the Seahawks’ right after he was traded, with the no franchise clause, and today he sits as an unsigned FA, because he wants more then he’s worth the GM, John Schneider pays correctly, not more then you’re worth… well, unless your initials are RW.

    10 10 Rate This
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    and seeing as Prescott wants 40 and Mahomes maybe 50, you could say that Wilson will be a bargain.

  9. Penny-Pinching-Mode….love it. That’s the kind of drivel people will say when they so absolutely fear an opponent that has continued to beat them down so badly for the past 20 or so years. How painful it must be for their diminishing fan base who still believe in that 25-years-and-counting “quest for six”. ROLFLMAO

  10. @LBHawk

    Newton posts the same old lame and boring comment on every Seahawks article, you would think he would be tired of it by now but obviously he’s not. It’s funny how much he hates Seattle but yet he still trolls on every article.

  11. Can we all agree that the comment ‘In 2 years the overpay will be a bargain’ needs to be retired.

  12. Some weird comments in here focusing on him getting paid top dollar when all I read in his comments was that he was tired of losing and playing for Dan Snyder and wanted to go play for a team that competes for championships in a winning culture.

    As a Mariners fan and a Seahawks fan at the same time I am well aware of the difference the two different types of cultures (winning and losing) can make you feel in your life. Why would he want to spend one more minute of his short NFL career in a losing culture…

    Then he said he felt the Seahawks were that winning culture team and he was excited to be on a team that wins year after year. He said he figured the money situation would work itself out. No demands…he basically said he isn’t worried about it.

    He isn’t the first receiver to cornerback switch to work out.

    I don’t blame Clowney for trying to get as much money as he possibly can I would do the same. It’s obvious the Seahawks have given him a fallback offer that he will use if nobody else steps up and nobody will be unhappy about how it all worked out if he does because there are reasons this has happened. He can hit free agency again in two or three years or whatever and probably do better if he produces for Seattle.

  13. Looks this was kind of set up. No wonder Dunbar wanted off of this team no matter what. He already had a suitor.

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