RICHMOND, Va. — Jermaine Kearse was on the golf course last Sept. 1 when his phone rang.
It was his agent to tell him the Seahawks were finalizing a trade to send him to the Jets. A few minutes later, Seattle general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll called him to tell him the deal was done.
“I was probably playing one of my best front nines ever,” Kearse said this week, reflecting on the trade that made him a Jet. “That got interrupted by a phone call.