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If the Seattle Seahawks want to eventually trade for Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders, it just got easier.
The Seattle Seahawks were in the running to pin down a trade deal with tough-guy pass rusher Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders, but that’s at least temporarily off the table. Temporality is the key word there, because even though Crosby is back with the Raiders, it’s very possible that he’ll be on the trade block again later this offseason or later next year.
Now, it just got a bit easier for the Seattle Seahawks to get Crosby in the fold, if that’s something they want to do. The Seahawks could use a stronger edge class going into the 2026-27 season, especially since they’ve had to part ways with a handful of key players following the team’s Super Bowl win.
Of course, the Crosby offseason drama was at a peak the past months. He was traded to the Baltimore Ravens, but following a physical, they backed out of the offer. Speaking to the public on Monday, March 30, from the League meetings, Ravens president Sashi Brown said he wasn’t worried about any fallout from the strange Crosby deal.
“People understand who we are and what we are about,” he said. When asked about the process that led to the Ravens opting not to finalize the deal, Brown said the deal worked out the way it was meant to be, stating, “I think this is how it should be handled,” he said. “We’re disappointed that it didn’t go through.”
So, the Ravens aren’t looking back, but now, Crosby may be available at a deal for another team. That team could be the Seattle Seahawks.
NFL Team No Longer in the Running for Maxx Crosby
The Detroit Lions, a rival in the NFC, was one of the teams in the running for Crosby during the offseason. But, they were never really that interested, according to management.
In an interview out on Monday, March 30, Detroit Lions president Ron Wood opens up about what happened with the Crosby situation. Speaking with Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, said that Detroit was never interested in getting Crosby.
In the chat, he says the Detroit Lions were “never were in the game” for a top-tier pass rusher during the offseason, including Crosby or Trey Hendrickson. As he explained, “When we’re looking at our cash and cap budget, we’re looking at it as is and as it will be with those guys knowing that we want to keep many of them, all of them if we can.”
Wood also said, “So if we had gone out and done the biggest – let’s say we did the Maxx Crosby trade or the Trey Hendrickson signing, that probably would have meant, which one of these guys are we going to let go?”
Maxx Crosby and Ravens Deal Went Bad Due to Medical Reasons
When Crosby is healthy, his numbers are solid. During the 2025-26NFL regular season, according to NFL research, Crosby recorded 73 total tackles, 10 sacks, 28 tackles for loss and one interception.
In a Tuesday, March 24, piece, ESPN’s Ryan McFadden shared that the reason Baltimore decided not to do the trade was because they were worried about the discovery of a degenerative problem that surfaced in his surgically repaired knee. So, that’s something that would absolutely have to come into play if the Seahawks were to revisit this trade idea.