{"id":875677,"date":"2026-04-27T02:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:36:24","slug":"seahawks-gm-john-schneider-explains-giving-up-2027-fourth-round-pick-to-draft-beau-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875677\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks GM John Schneider explains giving up 2027 fourth-round pick to draft Beau Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seattle Seahawks didn\u2019t have a fourth- or fifth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-nfl-draft\/166870\/rashid-shaheed-trade-results-seattle-seahawks-picks-new-orleans-saints-2026-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as a result of the Rashid Shaheed trade<\/a>, but John Schneider was able to maneuver his way back into the fifth round by dipping into next year\u2019s draft capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt was too big of a gap and too much talent there\u201d Schneider said. \u201cBeau came on a 30 visit. Really cool, right? Just the process of [him] coming in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe were pretty surprised [he was available at 148],\u201d Schneider added. \u201cBut when the guy lasts that long, you\u2019re like, \u2018Okay, how do we figure this out?\u2019 We did have a plan to play the compensatory game, if you<br \/>will. We were, like, \u2018We have the 12 picks next year. What does it look like?\u2019 The coaches, we got a lot of buy-in from the coaches. They\u2019re really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For what it\u2019s worth, Stephens wasn\u2019t even aware the Seahawks had traded up to get him when the life-changing phone call came.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI was unaware of that until they told me on the call,\u201d Stephens said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Are you serious right now? You guys are going to trade up for me right now?\u2019 They said you were staring at us on the board, so we had to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I think the Seahawks can survive with only 11 picks in a supposedly deeper 2027 draft class, especially if Stephens proves to be an impactful player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks didn\u2019t have a fourth- or fifth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft as a result&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,59395,718,719,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-875677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-draft","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","16":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116474346454040602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875677","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=875677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}