Surprising news: The Seattle Seahawks trade their most talented player to another weak football team.

Surprising news: The Seattle Seahawks trade their most talented player to another weak football team.

Unexpected development: The Seattle Seahawks deal their best player to another underperforming team.

With the 16th overall choice in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks have a few options. They could choose to strengthen their secondary for new coach Mike McDonald’s defense or go with a standout offensive lineman.

But history indicates there’s a good chance Seattle might trade down before general manager John Schneider turns in a card to commissioner Roger Goodell next Thursday night, especially without a second-round pick after adding Leonard Williams last October. He surely has already begun phoning clubs in the latter half of the first round to see if they would be interested in striking a deal to move up to No. 16 with five days until the celebrations begin in Detroit.

Schneider was the mastermind of 34 previous draft weekend transactions; which teams could be the best fit for Schneider and the Seahawks? And in return for their first-round pick, what can they realistically expect?

Eight clubs that are scheduled to choose after Seattle and who would be interested in moving up into the middle of the first round with a fictitious deal assessed using point values from the Jimmy Johnson and Rich Hill trade models, provided by DraftTek: