According to various reports around the football world, the Seattle Seahawks have acquired Terrelle Pryor from the Oakland Raiders. Pryor, a supplemental pick back in 2011, got his real first taste of the NFL this past season, throwing seven touchdowns compared to 11 interceptions in nine starts.
Raiders traded QB Terrelle Pryor to Seahawks, as @ProFootballTalk reported.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 22, 2014
A rift grew between Pryor and the organization last season after his former agent made some ill-conceived remarks about Raiders head coach Dennis Allen. While Pryor ended up firing his agent, he never publicly criticized the statement.
The Ohio State product has some real talent, but as he mentioned prior to the start of the 2013 season, he’s only recently learned how to become a quarterback. Pryor’s growth was stunted in college due to a variety of different issues, including an NCAA investigation that forced him to quit the team in June of 2011.
Pryor comes in to compete with Tarvaris Jackson, who re-signed with the Seahawks earlier this offseason, as the primary backup to all-everything signal caller Russell Wilson. This is one of the fits that made sense for Pryor. He will now have a chance to learn from a good quarterback coach in Carl Smith, among other well-qualifed teachers.
We had previously indicated that the San Francisco 49ers made sense for Pryor, an assumption that seems to now hold some truth to it.
Per multiple sources, the Seahawks and the 49ers were both pursuing a trade for Terrelle Pryor. Seattle won.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) April 22, 2014
It wouldn’t be a month in the NFL offseason without San Francisco and Seattle going at it from a front office perspective.
Then again, according to Adam Schefter, the Raiders acquired a seventh-round pick in return, which seems to indicate interest wasn’t too serious around the NFL.
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