On April 28 the Seattle Seahawks traded their 2016 first-round pick in the NFL draft to the Denver Broncos minutes before the choice, the 26th overall, was due. It was a funny moment, because Seattle had traded its top selection for the fourth year in a row, but also somewhat satisfying for Seahawks fans waiting with bated Twitter fingers since the swap after all still yielded a day-one pick, the 31st, the last choice of the (only slightly more deflated than usual) evening.
The now-Broncos’ selection became Paxton Lynch, their desired quarterback, and Seattle of course ended up with Germain Ifedi—the player it was targeting all along—in addition to Denver’s third-round pick, number 94 overall.