Offseason programs are coming to an end around the league and teams have started to reveal their plans for training camp this summer.
The Seahawks announced their schedule of open practice sessions on Wednesday. The team is planning to welcome visitors to 10 of their practices in July and August.
Nine of those practices will be at the team’s facility and the other one will be held at Lumen Field on August 8.
The other open practice sessions will be on July 25-26, July 28, July 31, August 1, August 4-5, August 7 and August 13. The practices on July 28 and August 7 will be exclusively for the team’s season ticket holders.
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba was Offensive Player of the Year.
But the NFL initially gave the Seahawks wide receiver an award that called him the “Oefensive Player of the Year.” Smith-Njigba said Tuesday that the league fixed the typo on a new award they shipped him.
“We checked it,” Smith-Njigba said, via video from the team. “Everybody cleared it. I had the whole team read it, make sure it was right, and it’s good, solid.”
What can’t be fixed is Druski mispronouncing Smith-Njigba’s name at NFL Honors.
Smith-Njigba initially called the typo and mispronouncing his name “disrespectful,” but said Tuesday he is no longer bothered.
“The Super Bowl, it’s a lot, a lot of things are thrown at you, and I tried my best to stay focused . . . on the game, but now I have no [negative] feelings, ways towards the NFL, Roger [Goodell] or Druski,” Smith-Njigba said. “So, I’ll just take my trophy and accolades and all that stuff and chill at home.”
The Seahawks added some experienced depth to their offensive line on Monday.
The team announced the signing of tackle Bobby Hart to their 90-man roster. Wide receiver Levi Wentz was waived in a corresponding move.
Hart spent the 2025 season with the Chargers and started in eight of his 10 appearances. Hart previously started 45 games for the Bengals and 21 games for the Giants during a career that has also featured stops in Tennessee and Buffalo.
The Seahawks also have Josh Jones and Amari Kight behind starting tackles Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas.
Wentz signed with Seattle after going undrafted out of Kansas in April.
The Seahawks took a look at a possible veteran addition to their secondary on Monday.
Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that they had safety Ifeatu Melifonwu in for a workout.
Melifonwu spent the 2025 season with the Dolphins and started in eight of his 16 appearances. He had 53 tackles, a sack, and an interception with Miami.
The veteran safety spent his first four seasons with the Lions. He had 72 tackles, 4.5 sacks, two interceptions, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries during his time in Detroit.
Per Garafolo, no signing is imminent but the Seahawks could revisit adding Melifonwu in the coming weeks.
Seahawks tight end AJ Barner went from celebrating a Super Bowl win to the operating room to kick off his offseason.
Barner did not miss a game in 2025 and caught a touchdown in the Super Bowl, but was listed with hip, elbow, shoulder, knee, ankle and calf injuries at various points during Seattle’s run to the title. He didn’t specify which injuries led to the two surgeries he had earlier this year and said last week that he thinks all should be well in time for the start of training camp this summer.
“I’m going to feel much better, and I’m already feeling much better, and I think that’s where I’ll see strides,” Barner said, via the team’s website. “I’m feeling good, and I’m chomping at the bit trying to get back out there.”
Barner caught 52 passes during the regular season after posting 30 catches as a rookie and said that he expects “to be one of the best tight ends in the league” in his third NFL campaign. Full health will help that bid and it will help the Seahawks’ chances at another memorable season.
The Seahawks will be defending their second Super Bowl championship in 2026. Before that can happen, the most recent win needs to be made official.
It will be on Thursday, June 11. That’s when, we’re told, the Seahawks will be getting their Super Bowl rings.
In a recent interview with #PFTPM, Super Bowl LX MVP Kenneth Walker III said he’ll be back in Seattle for the ceremony — even though he left in free agency for the Chiefs.
He should be. It’s the crowning achievement of his NFL career to date, and the Seahawks should roll out the red carpet for the guy who stepped in and stepped up when running back Zach Charbonnet suffered a torn ACL in the divisional-round win over the 49ers.
The next goal for the Seahawks will be to win another one. Coach Mike Macdonald has rejected the “run it back” slogan for a twist on the phrase: Run it forward.
That task got a little more difficult this week, when Myles Garrett landed with the Rams.
The Seahawks have a new offensive coordinator this season, but it might be hard to notice any major changes once they hit the field this fall.
Brian Fleury was the 49ers’ tight ends coach before being tabbed to succeed Klint Kubiak in Seattle and both coaches were on Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers staff during the 2023 season. Kubiak’s offense was built off similar principles to the ones Shanahan has run throughout his career and quarterback Sam Darnold said on Wednesday that it has been “more of the same” under Fleury.
“Thankfully it hasn’t been too much of a transition. . . . It’s a lot of the same stuff [with] Fleury obviously coming from San Francisco, but a couple different wrinkles here and there,” Darnold said, via Brady Henderson of ESPN.com. “So it’s been good that way to be able to get some of that same verbiage but just a couple different wrinkles.”
Darnold said that Fleury’s “command over the entire system has been incredible” and the hope in Seattle will be that the minor tweaks will lead to the same kind of results come the regular season.
The last time that edge rusher Derick Hall took the field, he had two sacks that helped the Seahawks secure a Super Bowl win over the Patriots.
Hall is now set to have four more years to help add more Lombardi Trophies to the collection in Seattle. He signed a three-year extension with the reigning champs this week and he said the prospect of future titles were more important to him than anything he might be able to land on the open market as a free agent next year.
“I know we’re going to win a lot of games and a lot of championships here,” Hall said, via Andrew Destin of the Associated Press. “So, I’m willing to sacrifice whatever everybody else thought I’d be willing to make to be here and with this team.”
The Seahawks had to part ways with a number of key players this offseason, including Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, because of the difficulties involved with keeping the band together in the Super Bowl era. Hall went in the other direction and that’s a happy prospect for the Seahawks’ defensive future.
Talk that Aaron Donald could come out of retirement and return to the Rams had Seahawks wide receiver Cooper Kupp reaching out to Donald directly, and telling him not to do it.
Kupp told Rich Eisen that he reached out to Donald and told him he needs to stay retired.
“I already texted him and told him he’s not allowed. So we’re good,” Kupp joked. “I texted Aaron and said, ‘Don’t even think about it.’ I left it at that, so we’re good. I’m not worried about it. I already nipped it in the bud. No one has to worry.”
Kupp said the Seahawks know they’re going to have their hands full this season with the players already on the Rams, and an already tough defense adding Donald is something Kupp does not want to see.
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I love Aaron. He’s such a good football player, great dude.I loved taking the field with him in L.A. I don’t know what’s going to happen. That would be crazy. He’s a very, very good football player. I don’t care how old he is, how long he’s not played, Aaron Donald is Aaron Donald. But it doesn’t matter because I told him he can’t.”
Kupp and Donald were teammates on the Rams from 2017 to 2023. Kupp has never played against Donald, and wants to keep it that way.
The narrow gap between the Seahawks and Rams may have been closed, and then some, with this week’s acquisition of defensive end Myles Garrett by L.A.
Meeting with reporters on Wednesday, Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold was asked about the move.
“Myles is a great player,” Darnold said. “Shoot, Jared Verse is a great player as well, but I don’t think we see them until Week 16, so we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”
He’s right. Arguably the best current rivalry in football won’t be renewed until Christmas, with a prime-time game between the two best teams in the league from 2025.
That gives Darnold and the Seahawks 15 weeks of the regular season to not have to worry about Garrett. After a Saturday, December 19, game at the Eagles, the Seahawks will have six days to get ready for the guy who managed to rack up 23.0 sacks in 2025.
