Grade the trade: Seahawks replace Stone Forsythe in new mock deal

Stone Forsythe has not been good for the Seattle Seahawks in 2024. To be fair, he was never expected to be thrust into a starting role. He was expected to be a backup of a backup, but such is the life of an NFL player.

Still, Forsythe has allowed 35 quarterback pressures this year, and that was 16 more than any other offensive tackle entering Week 7. That's horrible. He needs to be replaced, but the players who should be ahead of him on the depth chart, Abraham Lucas and George Fant, have been injured for most of the season and will continue to be out for some time.

Have no fear! CBS Sports has given Seahawks fans a trade proposal that would replace Forsythe. The problem is, would the trade be worth it?

Seahawks land Walker Little in CBS Sports' latest trade proposal

Seahawks receive: Offensive tackle Walker Little
Jaguars receive: Who knows?

Seattle has toyed with its late-round draft picks in 2025. They have used them in a trade for former Jaguars edge rusher Trevis Gipson and added some in trades for Darrell Taylor and Mike Jackson. Currently after the fourth round, Seattle has one sixth-round pick next year and one seventh-round choice. The Seahawks shouldn't give up any pick higher than the sixth round for Little.

CBS Sports' Cody Benjamin throws out the idea of Seattle trading for Little but offers no ideas of what Seattle would give Jacksonville. That is a needed piece of information.

In other words, should Seattle want to make another move for a Jaguars player, Seattle has the draft capital for Little. The question is whether he is worth making any move for. One issue is that Little has mostly been a left tackle in his four-year career and Seattle needs a right tackle. Maybe Little can play RT, but he has only played 47 snaps there in his career compared to 947 at left tackle.

Little also has only been the Jaguars third option at tackle and Jacksonville is not very good. Therefore, why would Seattle want to pick up a player not worthy of getting reps on a bad team and install him as the full-time right tackle, a position he has rarely played until George Fant or Abraham Lucas can return?

Sure, maybe Little, who has allowed two pressures, including a sack, in only 21 pass-block snaps in 2024, is a slight upgrade over Forsythe, but he still likely would not be a good right tackle. The trade, therefore, seems fairly useless and Seattle would lose out by giving any kind of draft pick in exchange for Little.

Grade: D-

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