{"id":620364,"date":"2026-04-21T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620364\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:35:08","slug":"nfl-draft-2026-john-schneider-confirms-seahawks-will-be-looking-to-move-back-from-pick-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620364\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft 2026: John Schneider confirms Seahawks \u2018will be looking to move back\u2019 from pick 32"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Seahawks\u2019 \u201cpunishment\u201d for winning the Super Bowl<\/a>\u2014are you tired of us starting almost every article with this reminder in the opening paragraph, yet?\u2014is picking 32nd in this Thursday\u2019s NFL Draft in Pittsburgh<\/a>. This year\u2019s situation is a little more complex for Seattle, who have a league-low four selections<\/a>, so even in a draft not considered to be a great in terms of depth, the Seahawks look like prime candidates to trade back to get more picks.<\/p>\n

At Monday\u2019s pre-draft press conference with general manager John Schneider and head coach Mike Macdonald, Schneider shocked the world by saying exactly what was expected regarding the Seahawks\u2019 interest in moving pick 32.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the pick that everybody wants,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cYou\u2019re blessed enough to win the Super Bowl, right? The fifth-year option right there. It\u2019s no secret with us, guys. We have four picks, so we\u2019ll be looking to move back. People are usually understanding that I think we tend to trend backwards, trade back. We traded up to get Tyler [Lockett] and [Michael Dickson<\/a>], Nick [Emmanwori], yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time the Seahawks traded down in the first round on draft night was 2019, when their native 21st overall pick was dealt for No. 30, then No. 37, and eventually they took safety Marquise Blair<\/a> at No. 47. They had the luxury of a second first-round pick due to the Frank Clark<\/a> trade, but that No. 29 pick was spent on L.J. Collier<\/a>. You have to go back to 2017 for the last time Schneider completely traded out of the first round, when they moved from No. 26 to No. 35, selecting Malik McDowell<\/a>. Wanting to trade down is understandable, but finding a trade partner isn\u2019t always that easy.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Schneider does not view this as a strong draft class, which did factor into giving up their fourth- and fifth-rounders for Rashid Shaheed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a lack of depth in this draft,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cI thought our scouts did a great job in the fall of identifying that and that allowed us to be a little bit more willing to give up the fourth and the fifth-round draft pick. No matter what draft you\u2019re in what year, it\u2019s our responsibility to the organization to be able to find true Seahawks all the way through it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo that means if we did have that fourth, fifth, and we\u2019re moving around and we acquire more draft picks, we\u2019re still going to be focused on making those guys true Seahawks. When you say nailing it, no matter if you have the three and \u2014 was that \u201921? Was that the year we had three picks? Or last year having a bunch of draft picks, it doesn\u2019t matter. You still feel that same level of pressure to be able to bring the best people you can and for the organization and for the coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch the full press conference in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks\u2019 \u201cpunishment\u201d for winning the Super Bowl\u2014are you tired of us starting almost every article with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,15832,300833,30908,183211,300834,300832,248587,211614,593,3608,5132,22419,1254,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-620364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-draft-picks","11":"tag-frank-clark","12":"tag-john-schneider","13":"tag-l-j-collier","14":"tag-malik-mcdowell","15":"tag-marquise-blair","16":"tag-michael-dickson","17":"tag-mike-macdonald","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-pick","20":"tag-pittsburgh","21":"tag-rashid-shaheed","22":"tag-seattle-seahawks","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}