According to a report from Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Marcus Trufant has taken a hefty pay cut in his base salary for the 2011 season.

UPDATE: I’ve separately confirmed this earlier report.

Florio reports that according to a source, Trufant’s base salary for 2011 dropped from $5.9 million to $3 million via a new contract signed on August 20.

However, according to the report, Trufant can earn that money back by reaching some challenging incentives, which pay up to $2.65 million based on Trufant earning a spot on the Pro Bowl …

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files and analysis on player contracts on the Seahawks here on a semi-regular basis. McIntyre also is a staff writer for Football Outsiders.

Brian McIntyre blogs daily at Mac’s Football Blog. You can follow Brian on Twitter, and if you’d like to e-mail him, you can always do so by clicking here.

By Brian McIntyre
The first unrestricted free agent the Seahawks added was quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, who agreed to a two-year, $8 million contract that immediately drew comparisons to Charlie Whitehurst’s deal from last March. While Whitehurst’s contract was technically a one-year, $6.8 million extension – Whitehurst had signed a one-year restricted free agent tender worth $1.176 million before the trade – the structures of the deals for the two quarterbacks are nearly identical.

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By Brian McIntyre
Now that the 2006 collective bargaining agreement expired, the NFLPA decertified and the NFL owners locked out the players – who are filing lawsuits and injunctions against the NFL – a common belief has been that neither side will blink until August or September, when the threat of missed gates and game-checks will be most real.

There is some truth in that, though both sides have plenty of incentives to reach a deal as quickly as possible.

For the owners, it’s about control.

Many NFL teams, including the Seattle Seahawks, were to begin off-season conditioning programs this week. With players barred from the facilities, those programs are on hold.

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Editor’s note: Brian McIntyre regularly covers the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL on his own football blog, and has graciously agreed to provide his weekly personnel files and analysis on player contracts on the Seahawks here on a semi-regular basis. We welcome him to Seahawks Insider.

Brian McIntyre blogs daily at Mac’s Football Blog. You can follow Brian on Twitter, and if you’d like to e-mail him, you can always do so by clicking here.

By Brian McIntyre
The Seattle Seahawks have an opportunity on Sunday night to end a two-year drought and go to the playoffs for just the 11^th time in franchise history. For many long-time members of the Seahawks—Matt Hasselbeck, Sean Locklear, Craig Terrill, Jordan Babineaux—it could be the last time they patrol the home sidelines at Qwest Field.

Below is a position-by-position contractual breakdown for the Seahawks:

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