{"id":825918,"date":"2026-03-21T22:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/825918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:55:41","slug":"seahawks-gm-john-schneider-reacts-to-rule-proposal-on-nfl-draft-pick-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/825918\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks GM John Schneider reacts to rule proposal on NFL draft pick trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Could you imagine if the Seattle Seahawks had the ability to trade their 2030 first-round pick in the 2027 offseason? If this proposal from the Cleveland Browns passes, perhaps that will be a reality very soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ahead of the annual league meeting in Arizona next week, the NFL revealed only two teams submitted any rule change proposals. One of them was the Browns, who want the league to expand the window for trading future NFL Draft picks from three seasons to five seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Reason: Provides Clubs with greater roster-building flexibility by expanding the range of future<br \/>draft assets available for trade<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As always, any changes need to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If approved, this would put the NFL a step closer to the NBA, which allows teams to trade first-rounders a whopping seven years out. Unlike the NBA, however, there\u2019s no draft lottery in which there are pick protections just to make following asset dealing more complicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Browns, of course, would be a fitting team to propose this rule given they were the ones who forked over three consecutive first-rounders to the Houston Texans for Deshaun Watson. Evidently the Los Angeles Rams president, Kevin Demoff, is in support of this idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Seahawks general manager John Schneider, however, seems to think differently. This is what he said on his weekly radio show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TgIIDat69BE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFive years out feels kind of like giveaways and then, you know, first round pick five years out, like wow,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf you\u2019re at a club you know where maybe you had a like losing record or you\u2019re concerned about job security or something, and you\u2019re just giving away a first round pick four years out? I just think\u2014I really like our system right now. I mean, I have a hard enough time when we when we\u2019re negotiating like all these flips and I have to get off the phone and write it down on a pencil, act like I have to go to the bathroom, write it down, look at it, then call him back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019ll be interesting to see with the presentation, but I\u2019m just giving you my first blush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll know sooner rather than later if the five-year window for draft pick trades comes to fruition. What I do know is that it would be a great boost to the mock draft business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could you imagine if the Seattle Seahawks had the ability to trade their 2030 first-round pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,59395,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-825918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-draft","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116269634243188083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825918","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=825918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}