JOHN SCHNEIDER HAD never seen it in his quarter-century in the NFL.
Around the end of the first round of the 2018 draft, the Seattle Seahawks general manager got a call from an executive of another team who was trying to gauge Schneider's interest in an NBA-style trade for running back Rashaad Penny -- the player Seattle had just chosen No. 27 overall a few minutes earlier.
"A true rarity," Schneider said that night when relaying the story to reporters, without mentioning the other team.
As it turns out, the call came from the Detroit Lions.