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Breaking: Seattle is sending WR DK Metcalf to the Steelers, sources tell Adam Schefter.
Seattle is receiving a second round pick and flipping picks in the sixth and seventh rounds.
— ESPN (@espn.com) March 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Seattle Seahawks traded wide receiver DK Metcalf to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2025 2nd-round draft pick.
Seattle Seahawks grade: A
At first, this trade was cool.
If you’re trading Geno Smith away to the Raiders then it does not behoove you to keep DK Metcalf—especially if he doesn’t want to be there.
But I waited too long to write a reaction to the trade and since then, Seattle has signed Sam Darnold for more money than Geno Smith cost.
So they traded Geno for a 3rd rounder and replaced him with a guy who has exactly one (1) great NFL season thanks to the perfect situation he stumbled into once the real starter, JJ McCarthy, tore his ACL.
Best Case Scenario
Seattle has 10 draft picks this year—including 5 in the first 92 picks.
They can draft the offensive line help they desperately need, DK Metcalf’s replacement—hell, they can scoop up their next franchise QB once they drain the remaining confidence from Sam Darnold’s soul.
Worst Case Scenario
We love draft picks, don’t we folks? But having a bunch of picks doesn’t matter if you draft bums. Seattle has to nail this draft. We’ve seen what Sam Darnold looks like when he doesn’t have 10 minutes to quietly sit in the pocket, patiently waiting for Justin Jefferson to be open in the endzone. The Seahawks will be relying on young, inexperienced players, a fairly new coaching staff and a quarterback, who, again, was good once times.
Sam Darnold is about to get people fired.
Pittsburgh Steelers Grade: B
The Steelers offense has been middle of the road for years—recycling offensive coordinators every year as if the scheme is the problem and not the fact that this organization hasn’t come close to replacing prime Ben Roethlisberger.
Shockingly, it wasn’t Kenny Pickett.
Which is why I can’t pretend this trade is some home run for a team deciding if they want to bring back 36-year old Russell Wilson or get funky and bring in 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers.
How can I pretend like it’s a good idea to give DK Metcalf a 5-year, $150 million contract when this team is one Covid outbreak away from all of their QB options needing ventilators—or I guess in Rodgers’s case, blueberries, tea tree oil and meth.
Best Case Scenario
DK Metcalf could take pressure off George Picken’s shoulders—as he demonstrated clear as day last season, when the games mattered most—that football was going to hit Pickens’s hands, followed by the turf.
Incompletion. Punt.
If DK and George can become anything like Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins—or even Mike Evans and Chris Godwin—then it won’t matter who the QB is.
Worst Case Scenario
If this season once again ends in heartbreak, well, Pittsburgh can send George Pickens to wherever Kadarius Toney creeps—wiping their hands clean of an incredibly talented player with no control of their emotions—and pivot to DK Metcalf as the WR1 of the staff.
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