What Would It Cost for Seahawks to Get Justin Fields?

The rumors are all over the place. The Seattle Seahawks need a young franchise quarterback, the Chicago Bears have the No. 1 pick in a promising quarterback draft, and the Bears signal-caller is playing the best football of his career right now. A Seahawks-Bears Justin Fields trade seems like it could be a fit. The question is, what would bringing in Fields cost the Seahawks?

The Seahawks Would Likely Have to Give up a Day 2 Pick for Justin Fields

Leaving aside the question of whether the Seahawks should make a Justin Fields trade with the Bears to replace Geno Smith until later, let’s look at what it would cost to make this deal.

Obviously, the true answer won’t come to fruition until John Schneider gets on the phone with Ryan Poles and the two general managers start to hammer it out, but several well-connected NFL analysts and insiders have sourced general answers about Field’s price tag if he hits the open market.

“The consensus in an informal poll of league evaluators is that Fields would be worth a second- or third-round pick in a pre-draft trade,” ESPN’s Courtney Cronin and Jeremy Fowler wrote. “When compared to former top-10 picks recently traded, that’s better than Trey Lance, whom Dallas acquired from San Francisco for a fourth-round pick, but slightly worse than Sam Darnold, who, along with a sixth-round pick, went from the Jets to Carolina for second- and fourth-rounders.”

Other general managers in the league seem to be in the same ballpark, although the better Fields plays down the stretch of the 2023 season, the higher his price tag is going to go. Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports spoke to seven NFL GMs, who all gave their hypothetical trade proposals for Fields.

Two said a second-round pick, with one adding a fourth, and one had a second or third. The other four all had thirds, either straight-up or with some late-round picks changing hands one way or the other.

This presents a bit of a problem for the Seahawks, as the New York Giants currently own the team’s 2024 second-round selection due to the Leonard Williams trade. However, Seattle does have two third-round picks in April thanks to a draft-day trade with the Denver Broncos in the 2023 NFL Draft, per Fanspo.