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Carroll’s QB remarks put Seahawks on Bears’ radar for No. 1 pick initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Chicago
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INDIANAPOLIS — A brand new suitor for the No. 1 total pick may need entered the ring.
Fifteen minutes after Houston Texans common supervisor Nick Caserio made it appear to be he is content material sticking at No. 2, Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll put himself on the Bears’ radar.
“The place that we’re in, we’re completely related to the quarterbacks which are popping out,” Carroll mentioned. “It is a actually enormous alternative for us. It is a uncommon alternative for us. We have been drafting within the low 20s for such a very long time, you simply do not get the possibility for these guys. So we’re deeply concerned with all of them.”
The Seahawks presently personal the No. 5 pick due to final offseason’s blockbuster trade that despatched Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos.
Quarterback Geno Smith is coming off a season through which he threw for 4,282 yards and 30 touchdowns en path to being named NFL Comeback Participant of the 12 months. Smith is about to hit free company on March 15, however Carroll sounded optimistic the Seahawks will get a deal carried out to deliver the veteran again.
“We’re working laborious to maintain it going,” Carroll mentioned of getting a long-term deal carried out with Smith.
The Seahawks weren’t the one group to crawl into the image for the No. 1 pick on Tuesday.
Jarrett Stidham and Chase Garbers are the one quarterbacks presently on the Las Vegas Raiders’ roster. The Raiders had been anticipated to be within the working for Tom Brady earlier than the seven-time Tremendous Bowl champion introduced his retirement.
Sitting at No. 7 within the draft, head coach Josh McDaniel is aware of he has to discover a long-term choice behind heart.
“I believe there’s all the time urgency at that place,” McDaniels mentioned Tuesday. “The objective for us finally is to have anyone that’s going to be right here for a very long time. I believe that you simply see the groups which are having success proper now in our league, I’d say in our convention, and particularly, in our division, they’re younger gamers that had been drafted by their golf equipment, and so they’re being developed there underneath the identical continuity. And so, I believe that finally, sure. Do I believe it’s important to try this should you’re unsure or bought on the participant, and now you’re making a mistake simply to try to say that you simply’re making an attempt to unravel an issue? I don’t suppose that’s actually a good move.
“However the objective, finally, is to attempt to have a younger participant right here that’s going to be a Raider for a very long time.”
RELATED: Bears inching towards making sensible selection of protecting Fields, buying and selling No. 1 pick
On Tuesday, Bears common supervisor Ryan Poles reaffirmed that Justin Fields would be the group’s beginning quarterback in 2023 except Poles is “blown away” by a quarterback within the draft course of.
Assuming the Bears get by the mix with out being blown away by Bryce Younger or C.J. Stroud, the perfect factor for the franchise to do is trade the No. 1 pick and accumulate beneficial draft capital.
The Texans, Indianapolis Colts, and Carolina Panthers are all considered as groups who may very well be enthusiastic about shifting up. After Tuesday’s opening remarks on the mix, the Seahawks and Raiders may be creeping onto the periphery.
Let the bidding start.
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