Seahawks Stand Pat at Trade Deadline, Head to Las Vegas

The NFL trade deadline passed Tuesday without a move from the Seattle Seahawks. General manager John Schneider held onto his roster and his draft picks, so the 5-4 team that beat Arizona on Sunday will play its final eight games with what it already has, as The Seattle Times reported and the Field Gulls morning roundup on SB Nation noted. That roundup asked whether this roster has enough to get Seattle back into the playoff picture.

The only roster change of the day was a small one. Seahawks.com reported that the team signed defensive tackle Cole Brevard to the practice squad. Elsewhere in the division, San Francisco did add help: Niners Nation reported that the 49ers sent a 2027 sixth-round pick for receiver Keenan Allen. The 49ers have already beaten Seattle once this season, 32-29 at Lumen Field.

Standing pat puts the focus on the offense. The Athletic asked whether coordinator Brian Fleury's unit, in his first season after his February hire, is good enough as it is. One reason for optimism is the run game. Analyst Mark Schlereth told Seattle Sports that Zach Charbonnet's running "bodes really well for the Seahawks."

The season numbers show a team that is better than its record but has lost the close ones. Seattle has scored 202 points and allowed 162, a margin of plus-40 through nine games. All four losses came by eight points or fewer, and three of them were by three or fewer: 33-31 at Washington, 32-29 to San Francisco and 17-14 at Denver. The defense has been at its best lately, holding Kansas City and Arizona to three points each in two of the last three games. The exception was a 34-17 home loss to Chicago. Seattle is 4-2 at home and 1-2 on the road.

What it means for Las Vegas

The first test for the unchanged roster is Sunday, November 15, at the Las Vegas Raiders on CBS. It is Seattle's fourth road game. The only road win so far was the 31-7 rout in Arizona in Week 2.

The market expects Seattle to win comfortably. On this site's odds board for the game, which tracks 12 venues, the Seahawks are favored by 6.5 points. Novig, one of those venues, prices Seattle at -270 to win outright and Las Vegas at +257. Together, those two prices carry a margin of roughly 1 percent. Traditional sportsbooks carry a hold of 3.5 to 4.9 percent on the same market. On the spread, Novig lists Seattle -6.5 at -104 and the Raiders +6.5 at +102.

The total is 40.5 at Novig, with the over at -104 and the under at +102. The best under price anywhere on the board is Hard Rock Bet's under 41 at -115. That gives an extra half-point at a higher cost than Novig's 40.5. Sportsbook hold on the total runs from 3.8 to 5.0 percent. A low total suits a Seattle defense that has allowed 13 points across its last two wins. A touchdown spread asks a team that has played mostly close games to win by more than a field goal on the road, which it has done only once this season.