Teams have a hard time moving on from winning quarterbacks. The Seahawks have done it twice and lived to tell about it. What’s the key?

Geno Smith’s run as Seattle’s starting quarterback from 2022-24 proved the team was correct in trading franchise icon Russell Wilson, whose career subsequently unraveled.

The first four weeks of this season suggest the Seahawks might have picked the right time to trade Smith and sign Sam Darnold.

These were high-stakes moves driven by general manager John Schneider in an era when many teams pay upper-tier money for mid-tier quarterbacks, for fear of the unknown.

If Smith had bombed and Wilson had flourished in Denver, the stakes could have been high for Schneider. But in correctly evaluating Wilson’s career trajectory and what Smith could offer as a re

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