Seahawks Ship Off Former First-Round Pick Curry to Raiders at BetLM

Seahawks Ship Off Former First-Round Pick Curry to Raiders

The Seat­tle Sea­hawks agreed Wednes­day to trade line­backer Aaron Curry, a for­mer first-round draft pick, to the Oak­land Raiders for a 2012 seventh-round selec­tion and a 2013 con­di­tional fifth-rounder.

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Raiders senior exec­u­tive John Her­rera con­firmed the trade, but he said it won’t become offi­cial until the league approves it and Curry passes his physical.

Fox Sports reporter and NFL Net­work con­trib­u­tor Jay Glazer first reported the deal.

A league source told NFL Net­work insider Jason La Can­fora that the Sea­hawks had been shop­ping Curry, the No. 4 over­all pick in the 2009 draft, since he lost his start­ing spot to rookie K.J. Wright after a Week 2 loss to the Pitts­burgh Steel­ers. Curry first expressed frus­tra­tion at the bench­ing, then said a few days later that he was at peace with the decision.

Curry was absent from Sea­hawks prac­tice Wednes­day, and his locker was cleaned out. Some of his for­mer team­mates con­firmed Curry had come to the Sea­hawks’ facil­ity ear­lier in the day to say his goodbyes.

“He came in and said how much he had learned from us and how much he’s going to miss us and every­thing,” line­backer Leroy Hill said. “It’s a new begin­ning for him, and hope­fully he steps to the plate. I think down there, he won’t have all those high expec­ta­tions that he had here, so he can relax and just play ball. I wish him luck and think every­thing will work out for him.”

Curry, a Butkus Award win­ner taken No. 4 over­all in the 2009 draft, hasn’t been able to make the com­plete tran­si­tion to the pro game. He strug­gled, espe­cially in pass cov­er­age, to the point where he was replaced by recent free-agent signee David Vob­ora at times in the fourth quar­ter of last week’s 35–26 vic­tory over the New York Giants. Vob­ora had just been re-signed by the Sea­hawks ear­lier that week.

Curry allowed eight recep­tions on eight attempts in his direc­tion for 120 yards, accord­ing to STATS LLC. For his career, Curry has allowed 62 catches in 76 attempts for 613 yards and six touch­downs for a 126.6 passer rating.

The Raiders, who made their first move since the Sat­ur­day death of long­time owner Al Davis, need Curry because they are banged up at line­backer, with start­ing mid­dle line­backer Rolando McClain slowed by an ankle injury and backup Ricky Brown placed on season-ending injured reserve last week. Start­ing strong­side line­backer Kame­rion Wim­b­ley also could see more time as a rush defen­sive end with start­ing end Matt Shaugh­nessy out with a shoul­der injury.

Acquir­ing Curry is the type of deal that Davis, who also served as gen­eral man­ager and ran the Raiders’ foot­ball oper­a­tions, prob­a­bly would have liked. Oak­land often has been suc­cess­ful acquir­ing for­mer high draft picks who were strug­gling else­where. Curry would be the 12th for­mer first-round pick on the Raiders’ ros­ter, includ­ing seven on defense.

Curry’s future in Seat­tle already was ten­u­ous after his con­tract was restruc­tured this year, with the line­backer giv­ing up a large chunk of guar­an­teed money that was expected to come his way in 2012 and free­ing the Sea­hawks to part ways with him after this season.

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