Ron Rivera has made no secret of the fact the Commanders are seeking a quarterback upgrade. The team is not wasting time moving into the trade mix.
Washington sent Seattle a “strong offer” for Russell Wilson, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport (on Twitter). His colleague Adam Maya adds that “multiple first-round picks” were involved. The Seahawks have made it known they do not view Wilson as available right now. While the right offer could conceivably change that, Rapoport adds Seattle shut down Washington’s effort to land the 10-year starting QB. Both the Seahawks and Wilson can shut down offers, with Wilson holding a no-trade clause.
The Commanders have been in need for a long-term QB option since Kirk Cousins‘ 2018 free agency exit, having seen injuries (to Alex Smith and Ryan Fitzpatrick) and a draft whiff (Dwayne Haskins) derail their post-Cousins plans at the position. A year after making a big offer for Matthew Stafford, Washington intends to take big swings to finally solve this perennial problem. The Commanders offered the Lions their 2021 first-rounder and more for Stafford. They surely sent the Seahawks a stronger proposal.
Washington has “called everywhere” regarding available or potentially available passers, Rapoport tweets. This saga should not be considered over, though this year’s QB trade market has not produced too many fireworks yet. Rivera said this week he wants a veteran to lead his quarterback room, but the team holding the No. 11 overall pick should not be considered out of the mix for one of this year’s top QB prospects — especially if most of the rumored trade candidates are not truly available.
Mentioned in trade rumors for over a year, Wilson was interested in exploring his options entering this offseason. But noise involving the perennial Pro Bowler has not matched the level of 2021, when Wilson’s agent sent out acceptable trade destinations and he addressed certain issues he had with Pete Carroll. It cannot be certain Wilson will be back in Seattle next season, but all the early signs point to it.
Under the radar option might be send Baltimore draft capitol for Tyler Huntley. He looked very good filling in for Jackson last year. Hes young (24-25). While not the “big name” fish. Offer him a long term deal 5 years 30-50 mill. At best you get a franchise QB. At worst you get a solid back up for 6-10 mill a year.
If I am washington I am sitting out this draft on QBs and building the offensive line for Huntley + another receiver opposite McLaurin. If Cowboys release Cooper take a chance on him.
The Ravens are ohthisclose to being the #1 NFL team in D.C. and they sure as hell ain’t about to help out Daniel Snyder’s joke club.
This team hasn’t had a diecnt consistent QB like forever.. good drafts, bad drafts, it’s like a yo-yo! The only thing consistent is the owner who totally sucks!
Wilson should tell Seattle he’s all in as far as being the QB for them and all these rumors and speculation with desperate teams looking for a top end QB will end
He did. The team said they aren’t trading him and he said he wants to stay. Slow news cycle until FA can start signing so we have to keep hearing about this non-story.
Yo Russ has repeatedly stated he wants to be in Seattle throughout his career, and as recent as a week or two ago. What else can the man say to get his point across?
3 first rounders and Montez sweat maybe? Maybe throw in a third. Just trying to piece together the strong offer
Seattle don’t wanna trade him I’m guessing if they not getting a good replacement for Russell there not trading him which to me is the only trade I think they’d do is with the Eagles because they got the picks and Hurts who imo can develop into a good starter And they’d probably need to switch sweat with Young just saying that’s how much it’ll be to get Wilson
three firsts and Young? that’s way too much.
Young is turning out to be a problem child and thus it might be addition by subtraction.
he’s still a huge trade asset though.
Let’s face it… the Seahawks aren’t going to do anything for the rest of Wilson’s career. They are by far the worst team in their division and the other 3 will be strong for a while. Their Def blows now and they cannot hire an OC for the life of them. Russ is too nice to say anything so his agent has been for years. It’s time to trade Russ and have Pete retire.
A team will need a monster offer tho. Picks, players, and an up and coming assistant for the head coach job.
The Seahawks swept the 49ers this year. You know the team in their division that was in the championship game with that other team in their division that won the Super Bowl?? They also whipped Arizona in the final week of the season. The hawks had the number one offense in the NFL the final weeks of the season once RW was healthy. Hot Take Seahawks are the number seed in the NFC playoffs next year.
Okay they won’t win…Ravens year cough cough
Pete literally just signed an extension last year… Seattle misses the playoffs for the first time in 10 years and all of a sudden they are the worst team in the NFC West? I don’t think so. They have way more cap room than their division rivals, better coaches, and ownership. One down year with significant injuries suggests that 2021 was an anomaly. You know they won the division the previous year right? Clint Hurtt is the successor for Carroll, but that’s 2+ years out. He was the Associate HC and has been groomed for a HC job for a few years now. No matter how much Russ says he wants to stay, HC and GM want him to stay, and Clayton says he isn’t going anywhere, folks will continue to talk up this non-story.
Hurts? Minshew is better.
Wilson has a no trade clause and I’m sure that if it wasn’t one of the teams that he mentioned to be traded to which Washington wasn’t he would just tell Seattle this trade isn’t happening no matter what it is because the more it is the team situation would be worse than Seattle.
Desperate teams do desperate things…
May I borrow this ^ the next time I’m desperate to add a comment?
Interesting option.
I think from Seattle’s perspective if they get enough draft capital it makes sense to have a little rebuild. Your division is extremely tough right now and a lot of your best players are getting older now. Sooner or later the salary cap will catch up to the Rams, the Cardinals will also feel a squeeze in Murray’s new deal and not to mention Hopkins, Watt, Hudson they aren’t exactly a young side either. Niners are already doing a little rebuild with Lance taking over and Deebo and Aiyuk.
Wouldn’t be the worst idea, this QB class is often criticised but I really like Same Howell a lot. He’s had three good season throwing the football, and in his last season really impressed with his ability to run the football aswell. He’s also the youngest of the top prospects by a fair amount and has I believe the biggest potential. He reminds me of a more mature and more talented Baked Mayfield.
Hawks swept the 49ers last year, Murray and Arizona seem to be at odds, and Hawks mopped the floor with them in the last week of the season, and Rams are in bigtime salary cap trouble. Seahawks are the best team in the best division next year. You heard it first.
wilson is an awesome qb that can make almost any team an instant contender, or at least a team to be contended with
Including the team he is on!! Which is why he won’t be traded for Hurts, Jones, or any other second rate QB.
Please take Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan’s got something like a 48 million dollar cap hit. He’s in Atlanta for probably the next two years at the least. Which is likely the remainder of his career.
Matt Ryan went from elite to good to average to sucks pretty quick … what a terrible contract that turned out to be
goin from matt ryan to matt schaub in no time
Wilson is not going anywhere. He doesn’t want to and Seattle wouldn’t have a QB to replace him. This is just a bone that the sports media can’t stop chewing on. Same with Rodgers. He will either retire or stay with Green Bay. That’s it.
Wilson traded, in comes the Jimmy G show with Saquan Barkley …
Its all click bait.
Die hard hawks fan and die hard Russ fan…that being said…. Time to clean the roost. Get what u can for Russ cuz he aging….and last year of contract. Rebuild that online and secondary. Grab homie from buffo trubusky.
He has two years…and then they can tag him if want.
Please do it WTF, it would save the Eagles from blowing their bounty of picks. Hurts isn’t the answer, but neither is dealing all of these 1st rounders they have when they have holes all over the roster.
Please do what..hawks arent trading him
i hope someone does, but please not in-division.
Matt Ryan had no mobility. In a current game which requires the quarterback to be mobile, he can’t do it. Wonky offensive line does not help. Falcons as a team have fallen since the second half of the SB a few years ago.