Three Seahawks that could be traded before the NFL Draft

The Seahawks need more draft picks to build for the future. What better way to pick up draft choices than to trade players of value?

The Seahawks currently have four picks in the 2019 NFL Draft. That isn’t very many, of course. In fact, it is the least amount of any team in the league. There is no way general manager John Schneider simply says four is enough. Seattle will somehow get more draft choices this year.

Seattle could trade future picks for other teams’ current choices, of course. But I don’t think Schneider and Pete Carroll want to do that. Seattle would have 11 picks in the 2020 draft as things stand now and I think that makes the Seahawks brass very happy. I don’t think Seattle changes from that number much.

One good way to pick up draft picks is to trade players of value who Seattle might see as expendable. This doesn’t mean Seattle would think these players are not of merit anymore. Schneider might just see some current key players as tools to get more players that are needed at key positions.

The New England Patriots, for instance, are excellent at determining which players they can do without and trade those players in for a chance to get players who will help them in future years at a reduced, i.e. rookie, contract. This helps the team and sometimes the traded player as well.

I am not saying each of the players on this list are going to be, or should be, traded. But there is a possibility that Seattle could take a chance and give them up for drafts picks. Because productive young players at lesser contracts are one way you get a team to Super Bowl contention.