Redskins: Three potential Trent Williams trade package ideas as deadline approach

Seahawks trade first and sixth-round picks for Trent Williams

The further down the list you go, the quicker you realize that there aren’t a lot of options for Trent Williams. The Minnesota Vikings could use an upgrade at tackle, but the cap gymnastics they’d need to acquire him could prove to be a bit difficult. And no, I don’t think they’d be willing to trade Stefon Diggs for him.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have some intriguing trade bait in O.J. Howard, if the team is, in fact, looking to move on from him, but Williams doesn’t make sense for them. They’re not true contenders in the NFC and they already invested a lot of money in Donovan Smith to play left tackle. That decision may not pay off, but they simply don’t have the money or the current need for Williams.

The Los Angeles Rams may like to have him, but they just surrendered a lot of their future assets for Jalen Ramsey. The San Francisco 49ers may also like to have him, but they would only need him temporarily until Joe Staley and Mike McGlinchey can come back.

So, I’ve settled on the Seahawks as a potentially interested party. The Seahawks already made a big deal to get Jadeveon Clowney this offseason, and they didn’t surrender a first-round pick to do so. Perhaps they’d be willing to upgrade one of their biggest weaknesses with a veteran tackle.

The Seahawks have about $15 million in cap room. Williams would fit there nicely. They could bring him aboard and have him play left tackle as long as Duane Brown is out and then could flip one of the veterans to the right side. That doesn’t always work well, but either would be a better option than former first-round pick Germain Ifedi, who has been a big problem at right tackle for the squad.

This would be a solid return for the Redskins, though they also could settle on a couple of Day 2 picks, much like what the Seahawks gave up in return for Duane Brown when they acquired him from the Texans (a second-round pick and a third-round pick). The draft compensation is tough to predict, especially in a time where established veterans are fetching record-high values on the open market.

These are just some options moving forward. It’s well within the realm of possibility that the Redskins will hold onto him and if they do trade him, he could fetch more (or less) than indicated in these projected deals. We’ll soon see what happens with Williams moving forward.