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Minicamp
Three Days of Football, Then the Jewelry
Mandatory minicamp wraps Thursday, and the last required item on the offseason calendar is also the only one anybody was counting down to. The Super Bowl LX rings come out. Three days of helmet-on-a-stick reps and ACT practices, and then the part of football that fits in a little box and goes on your hand.
The on-field stuff this week was exactly what June football is supposed to be: low-stakes, light, and occasionally interrupted by a community service afternoon. Day 2 was a shortened session before the whole roster scattered across four Seattle-area organizations to volunteer. The football was background. The brotherhood was the point, which is roughly how Macdonald has framed every voluntary and mandatory gathering since the championship.
And then there’s the ring itself. Kenneth Walker III, who ran for 135 yards in the Super Bowl before walking out the door as a Chief, is reportedly coming back to collect his hardware. He gets the ring. He just doesn’t get the jersey anymore. We’ll see him again in Week 7 under the Sunday night lights, but Thursday is the friendly version of that reunion: the one where everybody’s still on the same side.
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Seattle’s record across the 2025 season and playoffs that produced the rings handed out this week.
The spring is technically about installing Brian Fleury’s offense and watching Charbonnet shuffle back onto the field. Thursday isn’t about any of that. It’s about the only thing that ever mattered.
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Team Sale
Another Billionaire Walks Into the Room
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Boehly joins a field that already reads like a hedge-fund conference badge wall: Aditya Mittal, Wyc Grousbeck, Vinod Khosla, Steve Ballmer circling. ESPN once called the interest in this franchise “soft.” Goodell pushed back, and the market has done the rest of the arguing for him. Soft markets do not attract this many nine-figure people.
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ESPN once called the interest in this franchise “soft.” Soft markets do not attract this many nine-figure people.
None of this touches the football, and that’s the part worth repeating until it sinks in: Schneider drafts, Macdonald coaches, the rings get handed out Thursday regardless of whose name is eventually on the lease. The sale is the biggest story nobody on the 53-man roster is thinking about. As it should be.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Macdonald explained the Bobby Hart signing by noting swing tackle Josh Jones isn’t ready to practice yet. So the depth move was insurance, not a vibe. Nothing says June like signing a 31-year-old journeyman tackle and then having to explain in a press conference that it wasn’t personal. MyNorthwest
The Seahawks announced 10 public training camp practices. Mark the calendar: it’s the first chance to watch a reigning champion practice in person while HBO cameras film everyone pretending the cameras aren’t there. Field Gulls
Two weeks on, the Witherspoon extension still isn’t close, with training camp as the real deadline. The hold-up may be that his agency also reps Christian Gonzalez, so each side is waiting for the other to set the floor. A staring contest, essentially, conducted entirely through fifth-year options. ESPN
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This undrafted free safety out of Colgate started 152 games for Seattle from 1985 to 1995, and his 42 interceptions still rank second in franchise history. Who is he?
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Eugene Robinson. He picked off 42 passes across 11 seasons in Seattle — including a league-leading nine in 1993 — after arriving as an undrafted free agent out of tiny Colgate. Seattle found a decade-long starting safety in the scrap heap, which is the kind of thing that keeps scouts employed.
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Football's done for the spring. Now go enjoy the part that sparkles. Go Hawks. — The Rooster