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Two Banners in the Rafters. OTAs Start Tomorrow.
The Seahawks hung a championship banner on Friday. The Super Bowl LX banner went up inside the VMAC’s indoor practice facility, right next to the one celebrating Super Bowl XLVIII. Every player is on it, from No. 0 (DeMarcus Lawrence) to No. 99 (Leonard Williams), including practice squad players and coaching staff.
Eleven years between banners. One coaching regime change. Two completely different rosters. The only constant is John Schneider, who was building rosters in that same building for both. The 2025 Seahawks went 14-3 in the regular season, then steamrolled through three postseason games to beat the Patriots 29-13 in a Super Bowl that wasn’t as close as the score suggests.
14-1
Seattle’s record over their final 15 games of 2025, including the postseason.
Tomorrow, the real work starts. OTAs open Monday at the VMAC, and the voluntary program has already looked anything but voluntary. Almost every player on the 91-man roster has been spotted in photo galleries from workouts. Macdonald staggered the ramp-up for veterans after the short offseason, but guys like Witherspoon, Derick Hall, and Jarran Reed showed up for Phase 1 anyway. Last year’s near-perfect OTA attendance was credited as a springboard for the championship run. That standard is now the baseline.
The question that hangs in the facility alongside those two banners is straightforward: can they do it again? Every player who logged 700-plus snaps last season is back. The youngest roster in the NFC West. A generational receiver locked up through 2031. And a coaching staff that just trained with Green Berets. Boring wins rings. Banners prove it.
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Eleven years between banners. One coaching regime change. Two completely different rosters. The only constant is Schneider.
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Contract Watch
Witherspoon’s Extension Has Stalled. Nobody’s Panicking Yet.
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The complication is structural. Witherspoon shares an agent with Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez through WIN Sports Group. Whoever signs first sets the floor for the other. Neither side wants to blink. Henderson noted that the relatively slow pace could be related to that shared representation, calling it a waiting game where both teams know the math.
89.9
Witherspoon’s PFF grade in 2025, highest among all cornerbacks.
Here’s the thing: there’s no reason to panic. Witherspoon has two years remaining on his rookie deal. The Seahawks typically finalize extensions by training camp, which is still two months away. And Witherspoon is at the VMAC, working out voluntarily, showing no signs of frustration. The Trent McDuffie extension set the CB watermark at $31 million per year. Witherspoon, a three-time Pro Bowler who earned PFF’s best cornerback grade last season, is angling for more.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Uchenna Nwosu and Rashid Shaheed will co-host the fifth annual Seattle All-Star Classic at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma this summer. Past participants include Geno Smith, DK Metcalf, JSN, and Kam Chancellor. Grey Zabel on the mound would be appointment viewing. Field Gulls
Field Gulls is asking whether Schneider deserves credit if the 2026 draft class hits — and whether he deserves blame if it doesn’t, given he traded into most of those picks from nothing. The answer to both questions is yes, which is sort of the whole job description. Field Gulls
The Super Bowl LX banner includes every player on the roster, from practice squad players to the coaching staff. It hangs right next to the Super Bowl XLVIII banner. The VMAC is running out of rafters. Seahawks.com
Anthony Bradford trained with offensive line guru Duke Manyweather in Frisco, Texas, after the Super Bowl and reportedly showed up to the offseason program in good shape. Beau Stephens is coming for his job anyway. ESPN
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Stafford’s extension is done. Nacua’s is not. And the gap between those two facts is where all the Rams’ problems live. Nacua could hold out for $200 million, per Turf Show Times, while the civil lawsuit from the biting incident remains active. Rambling Fan ran the math on paying Nacua at $43 million AAV and concluded the Rams’ cash spending would hit 20% above the salary cap. Behind Nacua, Kobie Turner, Byron Young, and Steve Avila are all extension-eligible with no fifth-year options. The Rams drafted a quarterback in the first round and didn’t add a single wide receiver. Sean McVay’s offense without Nacua is a very expensive science experiment.
NINERS
Nick Bosa has a $54.87 million cap hit in 2027 with less than $800,000 guaranteed, per Niners Nation. Albert Breer says the 49ers’ entire defensive future hinges on how Bosa looks coming off his second torn ACL. If he racks up a dozen sacks, the money works. If he doesn’t, San Francisco faces a decision nobody in that building wants to make. Meanwhile, they’re planning ‘Faithful Invasions’ of road stadiums, including a Saturday event in Seattle before the Week 5 game. They’ve won four straight regular season games at Lumen Field. The postseason has been less kind. Forty-one to six, if memory serves.
CARDINALS
Arizona spent $54 million on Jeremiyah Love and immediately put him on kickoff return duty at OTAs. LaFleur told local radio that Love is a running back, but added the comforting qualifier: ‘you never know.’ Love had exactly three kickoff returns in his entire Notre Dame career because his teammate Jadarian Price handled them. Meanwhile, Gardner Minshew is running with the first-team offense because Brissett is still absent, and Carson Beck is reportedly ‘running his own race,’ which in Arizona means trying not to get lapped.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
Curt Warner was drafted third overall in 1983 and became the first Seahawk to rush for 1,000 yards as a rookie. How many career rushing yards did Warner accumulate during his seven seasons in Seattle?
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6,705 yards. Warner produced three 1,000-yard seasons, three Pro Bowl selections, and a Comeback Player of the Year award after bouncing back from a torn ACL that wiped out his entire 1984 season. He held every Seahawks rushing record when he left.
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Two banners. One building. OTAs start tomorrow. The math is simple from here. Go Hawks. — The Rooster