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If you’re an NFL rookie, there is one moment that you dread.
Sure, getting acclimated to the NFL is a difficult task, but there’s nothing more frightening than when the annual “Rookie Dinner” comes along.
The entire team goes out to a fancy dinner, and the rookies get stuck with the tab.
This year, the Seahawks chose a luxury steakhouse, El Gaucho, and racked up a whopping $22,203.60 tab with items like seabass, filets, ribeye steaks, New York strip, and lobster tail.
Seahawks veteran linebacker Uchenna Nwosu showed off the tab on social media.
Rookie Dinner 2023-2024🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/xnc055K4LY
— Uchenna Nwosu (@UchennaN_42) January 5, 2024
The good news for the Seahawks rookies is that it could have been much worse.
In the 2023 NFL Draft, the Seahawks had 10 draft picks — three more than the standard. So when the $22,203.60 is split 10 ways, it is only around $2,220 per player.
And who knows, maybe their two first-round picks — Devon Witherspoon and Jaxson Smith-Njigba — picked up a larger portion thanks to their higher salaries. The seventh-rounders certainly would appreciate it.
