The Jets and Seahawks have reportedly agreed to a trade.
Zack Rosenblatt of TheAthletic.com reports that the Jets will send wide receiver Irv Charles to Seattle. The Seahawks will send a conditional 2028 seventh-round pick back to the Jets.
Charles signed with the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2022 and spent the season on the practice squad. He appeared in 25 games over the next two seasons and saw almost all of his playing time on special teams. Charles has 14 tackles and he was targeted with two passes without recording a reception.
Charles tore his ACL late in the 2024 season and did not play at all last year. He’ll try to make the 53-man roster and resume his playing career in Seattle.
When teams win a championship, it’s common to hear talk about running it back the next season but Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is taking a different approach.
The Seahawks are a few months removed from the second championship in franchise history and they have a lot of the key pieces of their Super Bowl team in place as they head into the 2026 season. Macdonald’s message is not to repeat what the Seahawks did on their way to beating the Patriots in February, but to use it as a starting point for even more growth.
“We’re using the term, we want to run it forward, ‘it’ meaning our process and who we are,” Macdonald said, via the team’s website. “I think this is going to be a conversation that we’re going to talk about consistently. I don’t think it’s a one-and-done type of conversation. Really, it’s just how we talk about, how we operate all the time. It’s something that we’re having conversations with our team and our units every day about who we want to be and how we want to do things, and this situation is no different. It’s really nothing more or less than that.”
Only two teams have been able to win back-to-back Super Bowls this century, which underscores the challenge that is in front of the Seahawks. Macdonald said he hasn’t “sensed an ounce of complacency” so far this offseason, which makes it likely that he’ll keep pushing the “run it forward” mantra in the coming months.
Wide receiver Tory Horton, a fifth-round pick in 2025, made 13 catches for 161 yards and five touchdowns and also contributed a 95-yard punt return touchdown. But Horton had a shin injury in Week 9 that ended his season.
Horton underwent surgery, and his timetable for a return has been uncertain.
“There’s a chance that he could do some stuff toward the end of the spring,” coach Mike Macdonald said Tuesday, via Connor Benintendi of SI.com. “We’ll see.”
That’s great news for Horton’s chances of being ready for Week 1.
“Tory has made a lot of great strides,” Macdonald said. “We got some feedback that can really accelerate his recovery, which is great. He deserves some good news: He’s been working really, really hard. It’s one of those things, you don’t have a timetable until you do. It shows you’ve just got to keep grinding away at it.”
Seahawks edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence has not attended the team’s voluntary offseason workouts.
Coach Mike Macdonald said Lawrence is working through some stuff but is in great spirits.
“He’ll be here at some point,” Macdonald said Tuesday, via John Boyle of the team website.
Lawrence, 34, signed with the Seahawks in the 2025 offseason after 11 seasons with the Cowboys.
The five-time Pro Bowler had six sacks and 20 quarterback hits, giving him 67.5 sacks and 146 quarterback hits in his career.
The Seahawks are discussing a contract extension with cornerback Devon Witherspoon, but he so far hasn’t heard an offer to his liking.
Seattle made an initial offer several weeks ago, but the two sides are not close to an agreement, according to Brady Henderson of ESPN.
The Seahawks drafted Witherspoon out of Illinois with the fifth overall pick in 2023, and he’s been selected to the Pro Bowl in all three of his NFL seasons. The Seahawks picked up his fifth-year option for a guaranteed $21,161,000 salary in 2027, so he’ll be well-compensated for the next two years whether he and the Seahawks agree to a new deal or not.
The question is whether the two sides can come to an agreement that covers a lot more than the next two years. The report suggests that because Witherspoon has the same agents as another 2023 first-round cornerback who recently had his fifth-year option picked up, New England’s Christian Gonzalez, there could be a delay related to the agents wanting to make sure they’re setting the cornerback market as high as they can get it, for both of their clients.
Regardless of how close they are to a new deal, Witherspoon appears to be a happy camper, participating in voluntary offseason work and even showing up earlier than the Seahawks asked veterans to be there. Eventually, it seems likely that the two sides will come to an agreement that keeps Witherspoon in Seattle for many more years.
