Three trades Seahawks should make before the 2020 NFL draft
By Lee Vowell
Seahawks trade first round pick and a pick in 2021 for Yannick Ngakoue
The Seahawks are going to trade their first round choice no matter what. This should be about as accepted as birth and death and taxes and that Raiders of the Lost Ark is the greatest film ever made. Plus, even if Seattle didn’t trade its first round pick they would make a poor choice (L.J. Collier so far, etc.) so they might as well do the right thing and make a trade. Enter Yannick Ngakoue.
Ngakoue wants out of Jacksonville and he wouldn’t mind being traded to the Seahawks. Seattle needs edge rushers and Ngakoue is a good one. Plus, he is just 25 years old and he has played in the NFL for four seasons. Seattle might draft a 22 year-old and in four seasons he might not be as good as Ngakoue ever was and he would be a year older. Seattle needs a proven commodity at defensive end in 2020 and beyond and Ngakoue is that.
Someone is going to trade for Ngakoue, but the only question is how much that team is willing to pay in draft capital for him and if the Jaguars are willing to accept less than 2 first round draft picks or whatever they are crazy enough to think they want. Seattle should offer this year’s first round pick and a pick in next year’s class as well.
The Seahawks currently have 8 picks in 2021 but only one in each round until they have two in the 7th round. Still, Seattle should offer a third round pick or later to the Jaguars along with this year’s first round pick and see how things go. (Then Seattle should sign Everson Griffen and let the 2020 chips fall where they may with Ngakoue on one end and Griffen on the other.)