Do Seahawks have trade buy options at deadline?
9 names that could go on the trade block and if they make sense for the Seahawks: Seaside Joe 1683
My favorite website, Pro-Football-Reference, unfortunately removed a few of its most interesting search tools this year including the Trade Finder and the Combine Results Finder. These two tools allowed users to search for every trade dating back to 1992 and every combine result since 2000, but as I’ve discovered in my inquiries with the site, were not being utilized often enough for PFR to justify their existence anymore due to needing maintenance.
So while I would usually start off an article like this by detailing the trade history of the Seattle Seahawks, it’s not as easy to do anymore and wouldn’t be as complete. (If you know if another search tool that would immediately have every Seahawks trade on a single page, I’m all eyes.)
Instead, what I can say is this: Deadline trades are rare, even after the date was pushed back two weeks recently and even though trades have become more common.
The Seahawks acquired Duane Brown on Halloween in 2017 following a yearlong stalemate with the Houston Texans and that move, which came at a reasonable price, paid off pretty good for Seattle. The trade deadline happens to be on October 31st this year following Week 8, giving the Seahawks three more games to decide who they are this season.
We can say with some certainty that several teams should already be considering opportunities to unload veteran players for cap relief and future draft compensation, including the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, New York Giants, and Carolina Panthers.
A couple of years ago, the Rams traded for Von Miller prior to making their Super Bowl run. In 2022, the Chiefs made a lesser deal in trading for Kadarius Toney at the deadline, but he is a former first round and played some minor role in Kansas City’s second Super Bowl win under Andy Reid. Could a team go from good to better at the 2023 trade deadline?
These are some options I would consider for the Seahawks…and fair warning, I can’t say that I expect something so unexpected to happen. But if it could—the Seattle Seahawks are playing with about $7 million in cap room right now—these would be the teams and names I’d be talking about with John Schneider. I’ve got four teams and nine names that immediately stood out with three weeks until the deadline, including a former Pete Carroll draft pick, a player who lost Comeback Player of the Year to Geno Smith, and nose tackles, NOSE tackles, NOSE TACKLES!