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The Last Quiet Week, and It All Comes Down to Right Guard
Mandatory minicamp opens Tuesday and runs through Thursday, the final required gathering before training camp and the Hard Knocks cameras roll into a half-renovated VMAC. Here is how good things are right now: the most pressing question on a 17-win Super Bowl roster is which large man plays right guard.
All five projected offensive line starters are back with another year of continuity, and Field Gulls’ weekend O-line breakdown framed right guard as the one spot that’s hopefully hotly contested. The incumbent is Anthony Bradford, who one ESPN-cited analyst gently called the weak link up front while also noting he isn’t nearly the disaster he once was. Faint praise is still praise.
The challenger is fifth-round rookie Beau Stephens, who didn’t allow a single quarterback hit at Iowa in 2025 and has been getting reps at both guard spots since the day after the draft. Drafting a guard in the fifth round isn’t a vote of no confidence in Bradford so much as a reminder that Bradford isn’t under contract in 2027. Schneider drafts the future and lets the present fight for it.
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Quarterback hits Beau Stephens allowed across 581 pass-block snaps in his final college seasons at Iowa.
The wrinkle: Bradford limped off the final OTA practice with a minor knee injury, ice wrap and all. Minor is the operative word, but every rep he misses is a rep Stephens takes. Nothing concentrates a position battle like the other guy being unavailable to compete in it.
This is the part of the calendar where the only news is the absence of bad news, and on a Super Bowl roster, that’s exactly the news you want. Three days, no pads that matter, and then it goes dark until July.
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Drafting a guard in the fifth round isn’t a vote of no confidence in Bradford so much as a reminder that Bradford isn’t under contract in 2027.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Mandatory minicamp is June 9 through 11, the last time veterans are required in the building before training camp. After Thursday, the next live intel window is July. Enjoy two months of people guessing at depth charts they can’t see. Seahawks.com
PFF flagged Leonard Williams as a 2026 extension candidate alongside Witherspoon. Big Len posted seven sacks and second-team All-Pro honors last year, turns 32 this month, and is in the last year of his deal. If Schneider doesn’t pay him, someone else gladly will. Yahoo Sports
Former Seahawks nose tackle Quinton Bohanna signed with the Jaguars on June 1. The depth chart churns even for a champion, and somewhere a backup interior lineman is reading this and reaching for the phone. Field Gulls
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
CARDINALS
While Seattle stresses about which guard plays right guard, Arizona is busy being encouraged that Marvin Harrison Jr. is impressing coaches early in OTAs. That’s the headline for a team that picked a running back third overall and is otherwise being sold to its own fans as a rebuild to embrace. A receiver looking good in shorts in June is the kind of win you celebrate when there aren’t many others on the calendar. He faces this Seahawks secondary twice this year. Good luck out there.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
Which Seahawks defensive back still holds the franchise’s all-time interception record, and how many picks did he record in Seattle?
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Dave Brown, with 50 interceptions across 11 seasons (1976-86) — still the club record. Seattle grabbed him from Pittsburgh in the 1976 Veteran Allocation Draft, and he became the third player ever inducted into the Ring of Honor. The expansion team’s best find was a corner another team let walk.
THE GOLDEN EGG
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This week’s egg goes to the least-discussed unit on a championship roster: the offensive line that’s bringing all five projected starters back with another year together. Charles Cross and Grey Zabel anchor the left, Abe Lucas went the distance for the first time in his career, and the only real debate is which competent option lines up at right guard. In a sport where continuity is the rarest currency, Seattle is sitting on a pile of it. Nobody’s writing think pieces about a line that just works, and that silence is the compliment. Enjoy the boredom — it’s the sound of a problem already solved.
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Minicamp’s the last real news until July, so this is your window to send the burning questions. Roster math, position battles, contract anxiety — send it in and I’ll answer the best ones with more honesty than is strictly advisable.
Three days of minicamp, then the long dark of June. Soak up the quiet. Go Hawks. — The Rooster