Seattle Seahawks make offseason trade for big-bodied wide receiver that was ascending before ACL injury ruined his 2025 season
The Seahawks, along with the rest of the NFL, are always tweaking their roster and they did just that with an offseason trade that brings in a once-rising player.
This is the week where a good chunk of NFL teams kick off OTAs and here the Seattle Seahawks are, making a trade with the New York Jets.
Per reports the Seahawks executed a trade that sends a 2028 conditional seventh-round pick to the Jets in exchange for Irvin Charles, a former UDFA with two years experience in the league.
This move isn’t guaranteeing the Seahawks another Super Bowl by any means, but it’s still worth diving into since John Schneider gave up a draft pick to make the trade happen. Even if it’s a 2028 pick.
Who is Irvin Charles and why did the Seahawks trade for him?
Charles is a big-bodied receiver at 6-foot-4, 219 pounds who has made his hay as a special teams player in the NFL. He initially signed with Jets back in 2022 and started to make a name for himself during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
In 2023, he tied for the second-most special teams tackles and finished as PFF’s highest graded player on the Jets special teams (90.3). He then graded out as the top special teams player, again, in 2024 (88.3) and recorded the third-most special teams tackles at five.
His 2024 season was cut short, however, after suffering an ACL tear in December. The injury forced Charles to miss the entire 2025 season.
Charles’ college career started at Penn State, where he played for three seasons before transferring to the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He finished his final collegiate season on a high note, snagging 39 receptions for 792 yards and 12 touchdowns, good for an average of 20.3 yards per catch.
Charles has recorded just 53 offensive snaps to 450 special teams snaps over the course of his career, so it’s obvious the Seahawks see him as a guy that can really help on that side of the ball.
He’s shown to be a very effective player, so the Seahawks’ trade makes total sense. It’s a total win if he returns to the 2023-2024 form, regardless of what the conditional side of the deal turns out to be.