Special teams player Irv Charles is going from the last-place New York Jets to the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, it was announced on Wednesday.
Charles, 29, was traded for a 2028 conditional seventh-round pick.
The Seahawks waived wide receiver Trayvon Rudolph to make room for Charles.
The Jets will fill the roster spot with veteran kicker Younghoe Koo, who agreed to terms Wednesday, a source said. Koo, 31, who has eight seasons of experience (mostly with the Atlanta Falcons), joins Cade York and Lenny Kreig in the kicking competition. They're looking to replace Nick Folk, who signed with the Falcons as a free agent. Koo had a viral moment last season with the New York Giants, when he kicked the turf, not the ball, on a botched field-goal attempt.
Charles had fallen off the radar after missing the 2025 season as he recovered from ACL surgery. He was a standout special teams player in 2024 but injured his knee in Week 14 against the Miami Dolphins. His chances of making the Jets' roster this season were unlikely.
The Seahawks had the NFL's top-ranked special teams unit last season, according to ESPN Analytics. They added to that group in the draft by taking Kansas wide receiver Emmanuel Henderson Jr. in the sixth round and now have given coordinator Jay Harbaugh another piece of the puzzle in Charles.
Charles, who attended Penn State and Indiana (Pennsylvania) University, made the Jets as an undrafted free agent wide receiver in 2023. He played in 25 games in 2023 and 2024, though the 6-foot-4 player didn't see much action on offense, with zero receptions and only two targets in 53 offensive snaps over those two seasons.
He did the bulk of his work on special teams (more than 400 snaps), making 14 tackles as a gunner.
ESPN's Brady Henderson contributed to this report.
