Seahawks eye Sam Darnold after Geno Smith commerce to Raiders

With Geno Smith off to the Raiders, his former staff plans to go after one other ex-Jets quarterback — Sam Darnold.

The Seahawks traded Smith to Las Vegas on Friday in alternate for a third-round choose, per a number of studies.

Now that the Seahawks are with no beginning quarterback, the staff is predicted to focus on Darnold in free company, with the “authorized tampering” negotiating interval beginning Monday, per The Athletic.

Darnold, 27, is coming off of a breakout season with the Vikings.

He threw for 4,319 passing yards, 254.1 yards per recreation and 35 touchdowns, all of which have been profession highs.

The previous Jets 2017 first-round choose additionally helped lead Minnesota to their second playoff look in three seasons and with their finest common season document since 1998, incomes his first Professional Bowl choice within the course of.

Nonetheless, the Vikings’ success was short-lived within the playoffs, as they suffered a blowout loss to the Rams within the wild-card spherical.

Minnesota has put out a contract supply to Darnold, although an official greenback quantity has but to be revealed, in line with NFL Community’s Tom Pelissero.

“The Vikings have a proposal out to him,” Pelissero stated on the Wealthy Eisen Present on Friday. “They’ve been in talks. They selected to not use the franchise tag, which might be a fairly good indication that Sam Darnold’s market is a bit of bit lighter than what individuals had been anticipating on the surface.”

Smith and Darnold have loads of parallels of their careers, as each quarterbacks began off with quite a lot of hype as Jets, solely to later discover success with different franchises.

Smith, 34, will now be reunited along with his former Seattle head coach, Pete Carroll, whom he performed below from 2020-23.

Carroll performed a big half in Smith reviving his profession in Seattle, with the West Virginia product incomes two Professional Bowl picks and profitable AP Comeback Participant of the 12 months in 2022.