The Seahawks are cleaning house on offense.
Geno Smith is gone. He’s being traded to reunite with Pete Carroll.
The News Tribune confirmed late Friday afternoon from an NFL source the Seahawks are trading their 34-year-old, two-time Pro Bowl quarterback to the Las Vegas Raiders for a third-round choice in next’s month’s draft.
The Raiders’ new coach is Carroll — the man who in 2022 revived Smith’s wayward career as a backup and made him a franchise QB for the first time in a decade, in Seattle.
The source told the TNT the trade of Smith is expected to be finalized Monday.
This is the second time in three years the Seahawks have traded their starting quarterback. Carroll gave Smith Seattle’s job in the spring of 2022, after the team traded Russell Wilson to Denver for a load of top picks.
The question The News Tribune asked general manager John Schneider at the end of the 2024 draft last spring, when for the 13th time in 15 years he didn’t draft a quarterback — and asked the GM last week at the league’s scouting combine — is now blaring, glaring issue.
What is the Seahawks’ future plan at quarterback?
The future is now.
Last week at the combine in Indianapolis, Schneider answered that question this way: “Well, hopefully, the (draft) board talks to us, right, and maybe we draft a quarterback.
“It just hasn’t gone that way.”
The Seahawks hope their draft board screams at them between now and the first round starting April 24.
They have the 18th-overall pick in round one, the 50th-overall pick in round two, and now two third-round choices. Before the trade for Smith the Raiders had the 68th- and 73rd-overall picks in round three.
Seattle now has four choices in the first 82 picks of the draft next month.
The only other quarterback on the Seahawks’ roster after this trade of Smith is Sam Howell.
This story was originally published March 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM.