When the Seattle Seahawks traded a 2020 seventh round draft pick to the Cleveland Browns for cornerback C.J. Smith Monday afternoon, you could be forgiven for believing the news meant nothing, or that it didn’t even happen. After all, no one seemed to know who Smith was—the name sounds super anonymous and he played at North Dakota State, so no one had ever seen him play—maybe he didn’t really exist. The Browns are basically a nothing football organization. And the compensation agreed to is next to nothing: a conditional pick in the lowest draft round in the latest possible draft the NFL allows you to trade at this point.
New Seahawks corner C.J. Smith and the lowest trade compensation ever
