The ultimate day of the Seattle Seahawks’ 2024 NFL Draft began off with their solely commerce of the weekend. Their commerce companion? Properly, I feel who they’re at this level.
Hey Denver, we have a deal.
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) April 27, 2024
The Seahawks traded their increased fourth-round choose (and their seventh-rounder) to the Denver Broncos in change for Denver’s fourth-rounder, a fifth-rounder, and a sixth-rounder. It’s the third straight 12 months that Seattle has traded with the Broncos, and the seventh time courting again to 2009 that the Seahawks have acquired picks or gamers from Denver.
Whereas the Russell Wilson commerce is the gold normal for Seahawks-Broncos trades, we’d as properly simply overview all of them and try the ultimate haul. There’s one Broncos deal in right here that was really began by outgoing GM Tim Ruskell however completed off by John Schneider and Pete Carroll. It however counts as a result of it’s the origin story of the Legion of Growth.
Let’s make a journey down reminiscence lane!
2009/2010
Seahawks acquired: 2010 first-round pickBroncos acquired: No. 37 total choose
The Seahawks held the No. 37 total choose, then traded out of the second spherical completely when Ruskell despatched that choose to the Broncos in change for Denver’s 2010 first-round choose. Seattle ultimately traded again into the second in a separate cope with the Chicago Bears to get Max Unger. Denver chosen cornerback Alphonso Smith, who solely performed his rookie season in Colorado earlier than being traded to the Detroit Lions. The lowlight of Smith’s profession was taunting Tom Brady proper earlier than giving up three touchdowns and getting benched.
Ruskell misplaced his job however due to the insane collapse from 6-0 to 8-8, the Broncos’ surefire excessive draft choose was No. 14 total. John Schneider and Pete Carroll had two first-rounders to play with, and the Denver choose was used on none apart from Earl Thomas.
2013
Seahawks acquired: DT Sealver SiligaBroncos acquired: G John Moffitt
The much less stated concerning the Moffitt choose, the higher. Moffitt performed 24 complete snaps for Denver. Siliga didn’t make Seattle’s lively roster however returned for a handful of snaps in 2016. That is the one clearly boring “guys we had been going to chop anyway” commerce of the bunch.
2016
Seahawks acquired: No. 31 total choose, 2016 third-round pickBroncos acquired: No. 26 total choose
As a part of a four-year run of buying and selling down their high draft choose, Schneider moved down 5 spots, swapping firsts with the Broncos and netting a third-round choose in return. The Broncos wanted a quarterback after Peyton Manning retired, they usually received their franchise QB in Paxton Lynch. He performed 5 NFL video games.
Seattle chosen offensive deal with Germain Ifedi and tight finish Nick Vannett. Neither participant was exceptional however not less than Ifedi began for a number of seasons.
2018
Seahawks acquired: No. 149 total pickBroncos acquired: No. 156 and No. 226 total picks
That is the one Seahawks commerce up on this assortment! Seattle climbed seven spots for punter Michael Dickson, sacrificing a seventh-rounder within the course of. Denver drafted tight finish Troy Fumagalli within the fifth (14 catches for 118 yards and a pair of touchdowns in two seasons performed), and working again David Williams within the seventh. Williams didn’t make the ultimate roster and solely had a couple of carries for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
2022
Seahawks acquired: QB Drew Lock, TE Noah Fant, DL Shelby Harris, 2022 and 2023 first- and second-round picks, 2022 fifth-round pickBroncos acquired: QB Russell Wilson, 2022 fourth-round choose
I in all probability shouldn’t go in-depth on the Russell Wilson commerce as a result of we’ve achieved this story 1,000,000 occasions already. Seattle traded its greatest ever franchise QB and one in every of its biggest gamers to Denver for a king’s ransom The Seahawks additionally despatched Denver a fourth-round choose as a result of John Schneider was feeling charitable.
We don’t have to rehash Wilson’s tenure in Denver exterior of the truth that the Broncos gave him a 5-year, $245 million contract extension that, had Schneider given him that very same deal, would’ve seemingly resulted within the pinkest of pink slips. The one draft choose the Broncos acquired was used on DL Eyioma Uwazurike, who’s at present suspended indefinitely by the NFL for playing violations.
Along with the gamers the Seahawks acquired, Seattle’s draft picks had been used on left deal with Charles Cross, edge rushers Boye Mafe, Derick Corridor, and Tyreke Smith (not on the crew), and cornerback Devon Witherspoon. We will additionally throw in vast receiver Dareke Younger into the Wilson commerce, as a result of Seattle traded down with the Broncos’ fifth-rounder and picked up a seventh-rounder, which was used to take Younger. Witherspoon was a Defensive Rookie of the 12 months finalist, whereas Mafe was probably the most improved Seahawks in his second season. Hopefully Corridor can comply with in Mafe’s footsteps.
Fant stays on the roster on a two-year deal, whereas Lock and Harris are elsewhere. The stats present that Drew Lock had a better successful proportion as Seattle’s starter than Wilson had as Denver’s starter. Please don’t come again at me with pattern measurement and conditions.
2023
Seahawks acquired: No. 108 total choose, 2024 third-round pickBroncos acquired: No. 83 total choose
This has ties to the Sean Payton commerce. Seattle moved out of the third-round of 2023 to get a third-rounder in 2024, whereas the Broncos rose 25 spots to pick out Iowa cornerback Riley Moss, who missed the primary few weeks of the season with harm however nonetheless solely performed 23 defensive snaps over 14 video games.
The Seahawks landed guard Anthony Bradford with their fourth-rounder, and added one other guard in Christian Haynes with this 12 months’s third-rounder. When the Saints traded Sean Payton to the Broncos, additionally they despatched their third-rounder to the Broncos. The situation of the Seahawks’ commerce with Denver was that they’d obtain the decrease of the Saints choose or Denver’s native choose. Due to this fact, Haynes was taken with the choose the Saints gave up within the Payton commerce.
2024
Seahawks acquired: No. 121, No. 136, and No. 207 total picksBroncos acquired: No. 102 and No. 235 total picks
I don’t really want to repeat what simply occurred three days in the past. Seattle’s picks had been used on Michigan tight finish A.J. Barner, Auburn nook Nehemiah Pritchett, and Findlay deal with Michael Jerrell. Denver added speedy Oregon receiver Troy Franklin and Utah wideout Devaughn Vele. The profit for the Seahawks was getting a fifth-round choose, which they didn’t have coming into draft weekend.
The Remaining Whole
Seahawks acquired:
S Earl Thomas (2010)DT Sealver Siliga (2013)OL Germain Ifedi (2016)TE Nick Vannett (2016)P Michael Dickson (2018)QB Drew Lock (2022)TE Noah Fant (2022)DL Shelby Harris (2022)OL Charles Cross (2022)OLB Boye Mafe (2022)OLB Tyreke Smith (2022)WR Dareke Younger (2022)CB Devon Witherspoon (2023)OLB Derick Corridor (2023)OL Anthony Bradford (2023)OG Christian Haynes (2024)TE AJ Barner (2024)CB Nehemiah Pritchett (2024)OL Michael Jerrell (2024)
Broncos acquired:
CB Alphonso Smith (2009)G John Moffitt (2013)QB Paxton Lynch (2016)RB David Williams (2018)TE Troy Fumagalli (2018)QB Russell Wilson (2022)DL Eyioma Uwazurike (2022)CB Riley Moss (2023)WR Troy Franklin (2024)WR Devaughn Vele (2024)
None of Smith, Moffitt, Lynch, Williams, Fumagalli, or Wilson lasted longer than two seasons in Denver. Uwazurike technically could make it three seasons with the Broncos however with the asterisk of an indefinite suspension. We’ll see what the longer term holds for Moss, Franklin, and Vele.
I feel we all know who’s traditionally been in a position to get the higher finish of those trades.
