Best bridge QB for 2025

[toffee]

Why waste another year with Geno instead of developing a young QB with a much higher ceiling? Why spend another year with absolutely no chance of postseason success while having a decent enough season to be out of the running for a top tier QB in the next draft? Some here are sooooo scared of taking a step back in order to be so much better long term.

Any young QB in mind?

 

[Ozzy]

Any young QB in mind?

Seahawks blew the best chance they were going to have in last years draft by hitching all their wagons to a 34 year old QB. Even Milton in NE who went later looks to have a ton of upside. They could’ve kept Geno and gotten a guy in last years loaded class and didn’t.

 

[JayhawkMike]

Any young QB in mind?

You don’t trust John Schneider to find the next great QB?

 

[SeaWolv]

”there are no good QBs in the draft” or “”JS is soooo good found RW and can find ThE ONE”

and

”lots of good QBs NEXT year” or “We will be decent next year and not be in a position to draft a SiNGLE damn one of them.”

be a damn leader. Don’t waste a year with Mid Geno and grab the best we can.

Not sure anyone can realistically expect a QBotF this year. The 2025 QB draft is widely considered to be weak. Most of last years top QB draft picks look promising so their going to be near impossible to get. The one that is still an unknown and could be had is McCarthy. However, with Darnold not showing well in Detroit and if that continues this week in LA there's zero chance the Vikings give him up. The Seahawks don't draft pick high enough to even sniff Sanders, which many consider the only realistic starter in the 2025 draft.

So where does JS go to get a QBotF in 2025?? The more realistic option is likely the 2026 draft. If he can get some additional picks from a 2025 trade and package them to move up that might be an option.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Why waste another year with Geno instead of developing a young QB with a much higher ceiling? Why spend another year with absolutely no chance of postseason success while having a decent enough season to be out of the running for a top tier QB in the next draft? Some here are sooooo scared of taking a step back in order to be so much better long term.

1) Tanking can hurt a franchise. Star talent tends to leave and star talent elsewhere tends to not look your direction.

2) Nobody agrees with you that this year's crop of quarterbacks within our range has high ceiling.

3) "Absolutely no chance of postseason success"? We were a missed extra point away from making the playoffs.

Sorry, man. If you're a tanker, you're in the minority.

 

[HomerJHawk]

Bring in an OC and staff that can help Geno thrive even more, add a few offensive pieces in the draft and FA...dude, we easily have a couple years to make this team flourish with a proven QB. All the while we grab our future QB and get him set up to take over.

Holy shit. We're gonna be rocking for years to come.
(depending on how future QB pans out).

The time is now.

 

[eo620]

Geno will be our QB in 2025 and our QBOTF for now.

That said, JS needs to keep his eyes on the trade/waiver market as well as the coming NCAA seasons. Geno may be fine for now, but that window is closing.

 

[flv2]

Smith is due to earn $31M in 2025. I don't see why the Seahawks, (or any other team), would pay him significantly more than that. The proportion by which the salary cap changes from '24 to '25 might influence whether the team retains him or not.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Still waiting for him to somehow become something he's not.......

 

[sutz]

Smith is due to earn $31M in 2025. I don't see why the Seahawks, (or any other team), would pay him significantly more than that. The proportion by which the salary cap changes from '24 to '25 might influence whether the team retains him or not.

I think his pay/cap hit will be higher than that. The incentives he earned will go on next year's cap unless they extend/restructure somehow. I'm thinking north of $40 mill, which is kind of the new norm for front line starters.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Is he front line though? Honest question.

 

[hawker84]

Who cares if the QBOTF comes in NEXt year and is worse than Geno would have been? So what? We need to build a Play Off team and Geno is not the starting QB on a legit playoff team.

I appreciate we have sooooooo many fans here that only really care about the regular season. Good for you. Bet this was the best year for you.

The Chiefs went FIFTY years between Super Bowl appearances. For a team satisfies with slightly above average regular season success it looks like many here will be dead before we ever get close again.

I'm all about winning chips just like you, hell I'd settle for some conference chips at this point. But the fact is you don't build a championship team from the QB out. You build it from the trenches out. Period. Any pro, coach, GM, player will tell tell you the same thing. Only fans think the QB comes first.

 

[Natethegreat]

GM's and teams throughout the league place the highest priority on QB.
Yes the line is important but every team values the QB position the most.
Look at the contracts, it's not close.

 

[flv2]

I think his pay/cap hit will be higher than that. The incentives he earned will go on next year's cap unless they extend/restructure somehow. I'm thinking north of $40 mill, which is kind of the new norm for front line starters.

Pay and cap hits are different things. The Seahawks chose to delay accounting for some of Smith's pay over the last 2 seasons. This is a sensible and common NFL practice. The team will be accounting for $13.5M of dead money as a cap hit in 2025 regardless of whether or not Smith is with the team. At this point Smith is a $31M decision which would add $31M to the 2025 cap.

 

[AgentDib]

It makes sense to me to keep Geno on the existing deal for one year at the incremental price tag of $31m. He's worth a little more than that probably.

My concern is that the front office has an incentive to sign him to an extension so they can lower this year's cap hit and borrow from the future, and with our current ownership situation there probably isn't sufficient pushback against that. His previous extension came in more team friendly than people were expecting, so I hope that is case again there if he does get extended.

But the fact is you don't build a championship team from the QB out. You build it from the trenches in.

Of course we don't need to start a young QB immediately, and letting a rookie learn on the bench while you build up the pieces around him has been a pretty effective strategy recently.

 

[toffee]

On the other hand, our "future QB" is on last leg of his rookie deal and Schneider can extend him at vetmin level plus incentives. As many on dotnet wisely said, all Sam Howell need is good coach and opportunities. Cutting Geno Lockett can buy the team really good OL.

 

[CallMeADawg]

On the other hand, our "future QB" is on last leg of his rookie deal and Schneider can extend him at vetmin level plus incentives. As many on dotnet wisely said, all Sam Howell need is good coach and opportunities. Cutting Geno Lockett can buy the team really good OL.
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Why do you keep calling him our future QB? I wouldn’t let him mow my lawn.

 

[Dallashawksfan]

1) Tanking can hurt a franchise. Star talent tends to leave and star talent elsewhere tends to not look your direction.

2) Nobody agrees with you that this year's crop of quarterbacks within our range has high ceiling.

3) "Absolutely no chance of postseason success"? We were a missed extra point away from making the playoffs.

Sorry, man. If you're a tanker, you're in the minority.

No, they were not extra point away

They barely won a meaningless game to make it look that way

 

[hawker84]

GM's and teams throughout the league place the highest priority on QB.
Yes the line is important but every team values the QB position the most.
Look at the contracts, it's not close.

If the QB is the most important position on the team, the foundation in which championship teams are built, how did the Ravens win a championship with Trent Dilfer? how did the eagles win a championship with back up Nick Foles? How did the giants win a championship with back up Jeff Hostetler. How did SF almost win one with Mr. Irrelevant last year? They had good teams around them, especially their lines. Qb is the most important position on the team right under HC no doubt, but without a solid foundation around them they aren't worth crap.

 

[Natethegreat]

If the QB is the most important position on the team, the foundation in which championship teams are built, how did the Ravens win a championship with Trent Dilfer? how did the eagles win a championship with back up Nick Foles? How did the giants win a championship with back up Jeff Hostetler. How did SF almost win one with Mr. Irrelevant last year? They had good teams around them, especially their lines. Qb is the most important position on the team right under HC no doubt, but without a solid foundation around them they aren't worth crap.

I mean, I don't disagree that having a solid line is important. So is having a really good defense. It's all important. I don't think it's arguable what position affects your team the most though.