The league year did not need to start for teams to begin making big time moves. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks pulled off a league-shattering trade that immediately elevates the Broncos to a win-now mode and puts the Seahawks into an immediate rebuilding phase. To summarize the news from the man who broke it himself:
That’s a third tier starting quarterback, a starting tight end and former first-round pick, and a strong, rotational, veteran defensive end... and that’s not even INCLUDING two firsts, two seconds, and a fifth round pick. To top it all off, Seattle saved over $11 in cap space from the trade off of Wilson’s contract.