SEATTLE -- The Seahawks plan to release wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling , a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler on Tuesday.

Valdes-Scantling, 30, had been viewed as a candidate to be traded or released even though Seattle guaranteed him $3 million for 2025.

The Seahawks signed the eighth-year veteran to a one-year, $4 million contract in March, expecting him to be their third receiver and to help replace some of the speed their offense lost after DK Metcalf was traded. He also had a connection to new coordinator Klint Kubiak, who had coached him last season with the New Orleans Saints .

But Valdes-Scantling was outperformed over the summer by rookie fifth-round pick Tory Horton , among others, and his chances of making the 53-man roster as anything but the third receiver s

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