Seahawks looking to trade Houshmandzadeh

By Gayle Saunders
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The Seahawks have made it known that T.J. Houshmandzadeh who was their top free agent signing in 2009, is available and on the market league sources said Thursday. This must mean two things thing…Seahawks like their emerging talent at receiver…and two they don’t want to pay for his big contract after an unproductive season.

Mike Williams, a former first-round draft pick with the Lions, has made noise and looks like he has played himself into the picture at the Wide receiver position after being away for two years from football. They also have young talent in Notre Dame receiver Golden Tate who was a 2nd round draft pick. The Seahawks recently signed Brandon Jones on Aug. 22, who was released by San Francisco.

Right now the market for Houshmandzadeh isn’t very high, basically because his salary. Houshmandzadeh is guaranteed to earn more than $7 million this season. Executives around the league that are in need of a receiver have no interest in taking on a contract the size of Houshmandzadeh’s.

Houshmandzadeh spoke about his situation after Thursday night’s preseason game against Oakland and made it clear he isn’t nervous about his chances of being shipped out of Seattle.

“It’s just like anything, anybody wants to feel wanted,” Houshmandzadeh said, according to The Seattle Times. “So if I’m not here, they don’t want me here, whoever I’m going to wants me. So that’s how you’ve got to look at it. I’m ready to play.”

Its going to be interesting to see what happens now in Seattle. It’s hard to believe that the Seahawks are going to find someone willing to cough up anything for the right to pay $7 million when the reality of it is…the Seahawks are looking to unload him.

If Seattle can’t find someone to take him off their hands, do they bring him back or hope he keeps his cool if they ask him to take a lesser role in the offense? But when you pay a guy that much money, he should be the focal point of your aerial attack.