{"id":805246,"date":"2026-03-10T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:58:23","slug":"raiders-trading-qb-geno-smith-to-jets-in-late-round-pick-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805246\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders trading QB Geno Smith to Jets in late-round pick swap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geno Smith<\/a> is headed back to his first NFL home.<\/p>\n

The Raiders are trading the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback to the New York Jets, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport, Mike Garafolo and Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday, per sources. Las Vegas is sending a 2026 seventh-round pick with Smith in exchange for a 2026 sixth-round selection, moving up from No. 228 to No. 208 in the upcoming draft.<\/p>\n

Pelissero added that the Raiders will be paying the bulk of Smith’s salary to facilitate the trade and the Jets will get the QB while paying a little over the league minimum.<\/p>\n

“Complete full circle moment back to where it all began,” Smith, who was expected to be released<\/a>, told Rapoport following news of the expected trade. “I’m excited to connect with my new teammates and coaches and everyone in the building as well as build a new relationship with the fan base and community.”<\/p>\n

The deal cannot become official until the new league year begins on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

With Las Vegas widely expected to select Indiana quarterback and 2025 Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza<\/a> with the first overall pick of the 2026 draft, the Raiders no longer had a need for Smith, a quarterback they’d handed a two-year, $75 million extension<\/a> in April. That deal did not work out for either side, of course: Smith was under constant duress behind a sieve-like offensive line, taking a career-high and league-worst 55 sacks, and threw a league-high 17 interceptions in 15 games amid a dreadful 3-14 campaign for the Raiders under coach Pete Carroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Smith is headed back to his first NFL home. The Raiders are trading the two-time Pro Bowl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,787,7,4609,1507,393,255,88,6,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-805246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-free-agency","12":"tag-geno-smith","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116206889031718063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}