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The First Bids for the Seahawks Came Due Today
The opening round of bids to buy the Seattle Seahawks were due Monday, according to a Bloomberg report, and the headline number attached to this thing keeps getting louder: it’s expected to be the biggest sale in the history of the league. Somebody is about to spend more on a football team than anyone ever has. And they’re doing it to own a roster that already has the rings.
This is the part of the process nobody televises. The franchise went up for sale after Super Bowl LX, and the price has been a moving target ever since. Back in February the range floated around $9 to $11 billion before a report of a softer-than-expected market knocked some air out of it. Now the bids are actually in, and we find out whether the deepest pockets in sports flinched or not.
$9B+
Reported expected price range, which would make it the largest sale in NFL history.
The reason the soft-market chatter matters: there are only so many humans on earth who can write this check, and Washington’s tax climate has reportedly thinned the pool further. So the names keep circling. Todd Boehly, who already owns the Dodgers, Lakers, and Chelsea, has explored a bid. Steve Ballmer has been linked since the spring. A group involving Aditya Mittal and Wyc Grousbeck has shown a letter of interest, and Vinod Khosla has been preparing one too.
None of this changes a single thing about football. Macdonald still runs camp on July 25, Darnold still throws to JSN, the banner still hangs. The new owner inherits a champion, not a project. That’s the strange luxury of this particular sale: whoever wins gets to skip the rebuild and just sign the check.
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The new owner inherits a champion, not a project. That’s the strange luxury of this sale: whoever wins gets to skip the rebuild and just sign the check.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
The clock on the sale isn’t loose. The team has said the process is estimated to run through the 2026 offseason, which lines up neatly with a defending champ opening the season at home on September 9. Nothing says “welcome to the franchise” like a banner-raising you paid nine billion dollars to attend. The Spokesman-Review
Camp is real now: the team has its training camp schedule locked, running through mid-August at the VMAC with the preseason opener at home against Dallas. Twenty-five days until the building fills up, the cameras arrive, and everyone remembers football is a sport and not a spreadsheet. SI
Still no movement on the Devon Witherspoon extension, with reports describing the talks as stuck three months after the first offer. The market for elite corners isn’t getting cheaper while everyone stares at each other. Training camp is the deadline that tends to focus the mind. Pro Football Rumors
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Puka Nacua is extension-eligible and not thrilled about the alternative, but ESPN’s Sarah Barshop has reported he could end up playing out the final year of his rookie deal rather than getting paid this offseason. The Rams will happily collect a top-five receiver at rookie rates for one more year while telling him the money is coming. We’ve heard that song. Christmas Day is still circled.
NINERS
Brandon Aiyuk has spent weeks publicly demanding the 49ers cut him loose. There’s just one wrinkle: per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, he still hasn’t filed the reinstatement paperwork required to even start the process of getting off the list and forcing his release. All that noise, and the one form that actually matters is sitting blank. Loud about the bill, quiet about the pen.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This kicker quietly passed Norm Johnson during the 2025 season to become the Seahawks’ all-time leading scorer, then booted a Super Bowl-record five field goals in the Super Bowl LX win. Who is he?
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Jason Myers. He overtook Norm Johnson’s longtime franchise scoring record in 2025 and now sits atop the Seahawks record books — punctuated by a Super Bowl-record five field goals against New England in LX. Norm held that mark for decades; Myers is the one who finally took it.
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Twenty-five days until camp. Today the rich people did their part. Now we wait to see who actually wrote the number down. — The Rooster