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Trade #1

Colts receive:
G Jack Mewhort (80 overall, 26 years old)

Seahawks receive:
CB Jason McCourty (82, 33)

Colts will incur a $670k cap penalty to turn a $5.36 mil cap hit into a $1.10 mil cap hit

Seahawks will trade a $1.10 mil cap hit into a $4.69 mil cap hit

The Colts are really up against the cap. Even after trading away their high picks this season, they still need to navigate the cap in order to fulfill their roster obligations. After finding no takers or at least no package that they liked for McCourty, they decided to go after much needed interior OL depth where the untested Mewhort (4 career games in three seasons) could theoretically compete for a starting G job.

Mewhort was the lowest rated interior OL on the Seahawks, which is why he never really played for them, and they desperately need defensive help, so giving up a depth piece like Mewhort for a rental like McCourty makes sense for them, and they have an absurd amount of cap space so the roughly $3.5 mil additional cap cost is nothing to them.

The Colts understood the parameters of the trade, the financial impact, Mewhort's (non-existent) history, and what they hoped to achieve from the trade.

This trade is now official.
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