[Cactus Jack]

Three years and up to $100 million dollars is what it took for the Seahawks to land the former #3 overall pick, who'll now be on his 5th team in 7 years.

Had a lot of commentary on him in some of the previous (Vikings) threads, and still a bit puzzled by what Seattle is trying to do here. Roughly half ($55 million) is guaranteed, so the cap hit doesn't look THAT terrible.

There's a difference between Darnold and the guy they just let go (Geno Smith). He's younger, is a West Coast guy, and gets to reunite with a coach from San Francisco. But everyone thought the Seahawks traded DK Metcalf, Smith, and moved on from Lockett and others because they were stuck in purgatory-- not so bad you have to tank but not good enough to do anything past a Wild Card game at best.

They have the #18 pick, which is probably too high for a Jaxson Dart or Quinn Ewers, but their next picks are #50 and #52 (2nds) & #82 and #92 (3rds), and those respective QBs aren't likely to be there then. Don't know that you take either of those players given what you've just invested in Darnold unless you really love one of them, but it isn't as if #18 is an ideal spot to grab an immediate impact Edge rusher or day one starter at tackle.

Maybe if the plan is to bring in Darnold as the eventual mentor for your future draft pick or to make it easy to cut bait entirely at some point, then there's more of a plan, but as is, it looks like they want to be "bad enough not to get completely blown out each week, just not completely tanking".

The only thing that makes sense is if they try to pull a post-Watson Houston Texans-- the only problem is that they don't have anyone on their roster that they can leverage into the type of draft capital that the Texans got for Deshuan.