Walter Thurmond, who started in the Super Bowl as the Seahawks' third (nickel) cornerback, played in 12 games and sat out four others for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, agreed Sunday to a one-year contract with the New York Giants worth $3.5 million. Thurmond's signing was first reported by Adam Schefter of ESPN via a league source.

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Tight end Zach Miller, who seemed a prime target for release with a price tag of $5.8 million for 2014, has agreed to a restructured, two-year, incentive-packed contract worth up to $8 million that will keep him with the Seahawks through 2014. KIRO-AM's Danny O'Neill first reported the signing and NFL Media Insider Ian Rapport provided contract details.

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How convenient -- the cost to the Twelves to attend Seahawks games next season will go up about 12 percent. The club Friday said the average price will rise from $99 to $111, the price of ultimate success.

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To help understand the Seahawks' moves in free agency, it's useful to keep in mind three names who aren't free agents: Earl Thomas, Richard Sherman and Russell Wilson. Nearly every move the Seahawks are making in this year's free agent period is influenced to some degree by the plan to retain the three stars with contract extensions over the next 12 or so months.

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Three days after the fact, Golden Tate is still being excoriated on social media for his decision to skip town and sign a five-year, $31 million contract with the Detroit Lions that includes $13.25 million in guaranteed money. Perhaps if Tate hadn’t gone on record in early February (KJR-AM interview) as saying he did not want to play in a “crappy” city for a “crap” team, the negative comments directed at him would not be so strident.

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Defensive end Chris Clemons, cut by the Seahawks last week in order to save $7.5 million in salary-cap space, signed a four-year, $17.5 million deal ($5 million due in 2014) Thursday with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He reunites with coach Gus Bradley, his former defensive coordinator in Seattle, and DE Red Bryant, who signed with the Jags after the Seahawks cut him in another salary-cap move.

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Unsurprisingly, the Super Bowl champs are proving popular in the NFL's free agent bazaar.

RT Breno Giacomini, who started nine regular-season games and the three playoff games, signed Wednesday evening with the New York Jets, where John Idzik is general manager after several years in the Seahawks front office. Giacomini is the second starter departing the Seattle offense, following WR Golden Tate's move to Detroit.

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The Seahawks retained another of their defensive linemen in free agency when they re-signed Tony McDaniel, 29, Wednesday a two-year contract for $6.3 million, according to multiple media reports. He was rated by Pro Football Focus as the No. 3 available interior lineman. Clint McDonald, who left Seattle for Tampa Bay Tuesday, was rated No. 10.

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Golden Tate said all the right things about wanting to remain with the Seahawks, even offering a hometown discount in the first few days after the Super Bowl. But the fourth-year wide receiver out of Notre Dame was seduced by Detroit's cash and five-year commitment Wednesday and signed with the Lions. Tate told ESPN that the deal was for $31 million with $13.25 million guaranteed.

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According to Albert Breer of the NFL Network, the Seahawks released defensive end Chris Clemons Wednesday, a move that will save the club $7.5 million in cap room. Clemons recorded 39 sacks during his three years (2010-13) with Seattle but only six last year as a 32-year-old. The release of Clemons, acquired by the Seahawks in a 2010 trade with Philadelphia, had been anticipated.

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The Seahawks will take a visit Wednesday from free agent TE Jermichael Finley, who underwent spinal fusion surgery as a Green Bay Packer in November, according to several published reports. That could mean contract restructuring with TE Zach Miller, whose $7 million cap hit makes him vulnerable to being cut, is not be going well.

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With Michael Bennett secured over the next four years for $28.5 million ($16 million guaranteed), or $4 million less than $32 million the Chicago Bears were willing to pay, the Seahawks face the disposition of their remaining marquee free agents, principally wide receiver Golden Tate, defensive tackle Tony McDaniel, and kicker Steven Hauschka.

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When Michael Bennett was asked recently whether in his free agency he would give the Seahawks a hometown discount to re-sign with the Super Bowl champions, he responded rather defiantly in the negative, saying no, "This isn't Costco."

I thought at the time, "Well, actually, it is like Costco. The Seahawks buy their defensive linemen in bulk. They use a lot of them, so the cost per unit purchased is less expensive. If a manufacturer thinks he has a high-end appliance worth more per unit than Costco would pay, he can sell it to Albert Lee. But if he wants to move product . . . "

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Michael Bennett isn't going anywhere.

The Seahawks and Bennett agreed to a reported four-year, $28.5 million deal Monday that includes $16 million in guaranteed money. As a defensive end and tackle last season, Bennett played in every game and led the Seattle with 8.5 sacks, 25 quarterback hits and added 31 tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. 

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Brad Biggs of The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Chicago Bears are in "strong pursuit" of free-agent defensive end Michael Bennett and that other clubs interested in Bennett expect him to land in the Windy City, where his brother, Martellus, is a tight end. An unrestricted free agent, Bennett led the Seahawks with 8.5 sacks last season and is one of their top offseason priorities.

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Former Seahawk DE Red Bryant, cut loose by the Super Bowl champions Feb. 28 in order to save $5.5 million in salary cap space, has agreed to a four-year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to ESPN's Adam Scheffer. Bryant, who also attracted interest from the Kansas City Chiefs, will be reunited with former Seattle defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, Jacksonville's head coach.

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To little surprise, DE Michael Bennett, the Seahawks' top free agent, will enter the NFL market starting Saturday rather than accept the team's pre-market offer. He played on a one-year deal worth $5 million last season, when he led Seattle with 8.5 sacks.

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The NFL has reinstated former Pro Bowl cornerback Brandon Browner, an unrestricted free agent who played eight games for the Seahawks in 2013 before his second suspension in two years. The question is whether the Seahawks should attempt to re-sign Browner or wash their hands of him.

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CB Brandon Browner, a key figure in the Seahawks' "Legion of Boom" now a free agent, wrote on his Twitter account Tuesday that he was reinstated by the NFL after receiving a suspension late last season that would have lasted through 2014.

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