Grading the Frank Clark trade for Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are trading Frank Clark to the Kansas City Chiefs in exchange for a bevy of draft picks, but how does each team come out in this trade?

Early in the 2019 NFL offseason, the Seattle Seahawks slapped the franchise tag on pass-rusher Frank Clark in hopes of working out a long-term deal. However, as weeks passed, that looked less likely to happen and, thus, trade rumors started popping up. On Tuesday, a deal finally materialized, as first reported by Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Seattle will send Clark to the Kansas City Chiefs.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to confirm that the deal was done, pending the Chiefs getting a deal worked out with Clark prior to the start of the 2019 NFL Draft on Thursday, April 25. Rapoport then confirmed that the deal was done with Clark agreeing to a five-year, $105.5 million contract with Kansas City

Now that the deal between the Chiefs and Seahawks is done with Clark’s contract in place, it’s time to evaluate where we are. With that, here’s what the trade will look like for both teams.

It was no secret that, after trading Dee Ford and releasing Justin Houston, that the Chiefs were going to be interested in any pass-rusher they could land. And, sitting with the No. 29 pick, it was unlikely that they were going to get an elite edge defender in this draft class. As such, they emerged as a trade partner with Seattle, who gets hefty compensation for a player they may not have been able to keep long term.

Though we know the reasons why each team made this deal, though, what needs to be evaluated is how the Chiefs and Seahawks come out of this trade. To do that, we’ll hand out a grade to each team for the trade, discussing what they did right or wrong in making this happen. We’ll start with the team getting Clark, the Kansas City Chiefs.