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The Sale Finally Has a Date, and It’s Almost Too Perfect
The NFL has set a date to make the Khosla family the owners of your Seattle Seahawks. Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the league told teams there will be a special one-day meeting on August 26 in Atlanta, where owners are expected to vote on the group’s purchase of the franchise from the Paul G. Allen estate.
You know how this vote goes. The sale needs at least 24 of the 32 owners to sign off, and everyone involved treats that threshold as a speed bump, not a wall. Owners do not gather in a room to reject the largest sale in the history of American sports. They gather to nod, sign, and get back to whatever billionaires do on a Wednesday.
24 of 32
Owners needed to approve the sale — widely expected to be a formality.
The timing is the part that made me laugh. The vote lands exactly two weeks before the Seahawks open the season on September 9 against New England — the same Patriots they beat in the Super Bowl, showing up to watch the banner go up. So the ownership question gets settled, and then the football answer gets delivered on the same field a fortnight later. Whoever scripts this franchise’s offseason has a flair for the dramatic.
None of this changes the roster, the cap, or who lines up in Week 1. What it changes is the last piece of uncertainty hanging over a championship team. By the time the Patriots are standing on our turf, the paperwork will be done and the Khosla era will officially be underway.
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Owners do not gather in a room to reject the largest sale in the history of American sports.
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Camp Storyline
The Rookie Runs Into a Crowded Room
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Price and George Holani took the lead reps through OTAs and minicamp, but the depth chart the site lays out has real bodies on it. Holani stepped up when Zach Charbonnet went down during the playoff run, free-agent signing Emanuel Wilson is looking for carries, and Charbonnet — progressing well from ACL surgery with a late-July check-up scheduled right as camp opens — will factor back into the run game once he’s cleared. That’s a lot of competition for a back who never started a game at Notre Dame.
Which is exactly why the 32nd pick is interesting. Price doesn’t need to be handed anything. He needs to be the guy still standing when Charbonnet’s knee is a question mark and the coaching staff wants to protect it early. There’s a version of this camp where Price wins the job by default in September and keeps it on merit by October.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
The one genuinely open starting job on defense is safety opposite Julian Love, with Ty Okada running ahead of second-round rookie Bud Clark. A returning Super Bowl defense with exactly one job up for grabs is not a problem. It’s a receipt. Seahawks.com
Zach Charbonnet is ‘progressing well’ from ACL surgery with a check-up scheduled for late July. The appointment lands the same week camp opens, which means the first real news of camp might come from a doctor’s office. Yahoo Sports
HBO’s Hard Knocks debuts August 11, the first time the show has ever followed a reigning champion. Five episodes of cameras in Renton. Somewhere, a rookie is about to become famous for saying one dumb thing in a meeting room. NFL.com
Seahawks.com’s Darnold camp storyline asks what a Super Bowl-winning quarterback does for an encore under his seventh offensive coordinator in six seasons. The answer everyone in the building wants: the exact same thing, minus the turnovers. Seahawks.com
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
The Aaron Donald comeback saga now has a clock on it. A report this week says the 35-year-old could delay his start to camp while he decides whether to actually unretire and rejoin the Rams, with a deadline looming on a final call. So the plan to avenge a conference title loss to Seattle hinges on a Hall of Famer who retired in 2024 making up his mind by a due date. Bold strategy. We’ll be at Lumen on Christmas regardless of what he decides.
NINERS
Good news out of Santa Clara: multiple 49ers defensive linemen are expected back for training camp as they work off injuries, per Pro Football Rumors. Which is another way of saying the defense that got them nowhere last year is counting on rehab timelines cooperating. When your best offseason headline is ‘the hurt guys should return,’ the bar has moved somewhere south of Levi’s Stadium.
CARDINALS
Jacoby Brissett is still in a contract dispute with Arizona, and his solution was to fly to South Florida and work out with teammates anyway, per NBC Sports. Nothing steadies a franchise like your penciled-in starter running informal throwing sessions while his agent and the front office glare at each other from opposite coasts.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This undrafted defensive tackle piled up 137.5 sacks over 14 seasons — still the most ever by an interior lineman — and closed his Hall of Fame career with three seasons in Seattle from 2001 to 2003. Who is he?
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John Randle. He went undrafted out of Texas A&I, terrorized quarterbacks for 11 years in Minnesota, then finished in Seattle and made a Pro Bowl as a Seahawk in 2001 before his 2010 induction into Canton.
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Seven days to camp, and the last loose end left is a signature in an Atlanta ballroom. — The Rooster