Seattle Seahawks

Another first-round pick has agreed to their first NFL contract.

Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Seahawks have agreed to terms with running back Jadarian Price. Price was the 32nd and final pick of the first round in Pittsburgh last month.

Nineteen of those 32 first-round picks are now under contract.

Price was also the second Notre Dame running back to be selected by an NFC West team in the first round. Jeremiyah Love went to Arizona with the fourth overall pick. Price had 280 carries for 1,692 yards and 21 touchdowns over three seasons with the Fighting Irish.

The Seahawks have Zach Charbonnet coming off of a torn ACL with Price, Emanuel Wilson, George Holani, Kenny McIntosh, Velus Jones, and Jacardia Wright making up the rest of the backfield.

Seahawks edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence did not attend the start of the team’s voluntary offseason workouts until this week. He is participating in the organized team activities.

Lawrence was home in Texas after his wife gave birth to a daughter, Syenna, the day after Super Bowl LX.

“Shout out to the fans that are concerned about me, just let them know D-Law is doing well,” Lawrence said, via John Boyle of the team website. “I’m currently working back in Texas right now. I’ve got the newborn and a 1-year-old, so I can’t leave mom with all those responsibilities. She knows I’ll be back here for the season, and the coaching staff knows my game plan. We’re still working. I’m just not able to be here on a day-to-day basis.”

Lawrence got his first Super Bowl in his first season in Seattle after 11 seasons in Dallas. He also earned his fifth Pro Bowl nod, so the 34-year-old didn’t need much time to decide on playing a 13th season.

“Being able to reach the top and understanding that my body still has more to give, I still have more to give,” Lawrence said. “And also, I had the most fun I’ve ever had playing football last year. So just taking all of that into consideration, knowing what I’d be leaving behind, the chances [of retirement] were very slim.”

Lawrence is entering the second season of the three-year, $42 million contract he signed in the 2025 offseason.

Seahawks edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence is on the practice field for today’s voluntary Organized Team Activities.

Lawrence had not been attending previously, but Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said Lawrence would be there at some point, and today he is.

The Seahawks posted video of Lawrence in uniform, walking out the doors of the team’s facility and jogging onto the practice field.

The 34-year-old Lawrence is heading into his second season with the Seahawks after previously playing 11 seasons with the Cowboys. He’s on Year 2 of a three-year, $42 million contract.

The market for the Seahawks was “soft.” Until it wasn’t.

Less than three weeks after Seth Wickersham of ESPN used the “S” word regarding the interest in the only NFL team currently for sale, Ian Rapoport on NFL Network (which makes him now an employee of ESPN) reported during a prime-time edition of Pat McAfee’s show that the market is suddenly “robust.”

Rapoport, who was careful to try to harmonize his reporting with the recent intel from a new colleague, added that the owners could have a special meeting in August to vote on the new owner.

The number, per Rapoport, “could eclipse $10 billion.”

The expected range, as PFT reported in February, was $9 billion to $11 billion. The number could land in the middle of the low and high end of the scale.

So what changed? It could be that the folks who are truly intent on trying to buy the team watched and waited to see how aggressive the competition would be. At the end of the day, the highest bidder will get the team.

Rapoport named no names as to a potential buyer.

The current employees of the the defending NFL champions and their fans should hope and pray that the new owner, whoever it may be, won’t try to fix what currently isn’t broken. That may be easier said than done. The owner of a team can do whatever he or she wants with it. It will be theirs with which to do whatever they choose.

But, in almost all sales of sports teams, it’s not about finding the best steward for the asset. It’s about getting top dollar for it. In this case, that’s what the late Paul Allen’s trust requires.

The 2026 season will begin just as the 2025 postseason ended, with the Patriots taking on the Seahawks.

In theory, that could be bad news for quarterback Drake Maye, who was effectively running for his life on the field in Santa Clara throughout Super Bowl LX.

While this matchup will have considerably lower stakes for the two teams, Maye and the Patriots would certainly like to reverse the result in Week 1.

“I think it’s a chance for us to get some extra motivation during training camp, starting off with a bang like that — a chance to get an opponent that left a bad taste in our mouth,” Maye said in his Wednesday press conference. “So I think for us, it’s going to really make us work. We’ve got to bring it Week 1 — on the road in a tough environment. They’re going to be hanging their banner, and that’s a part of it.

“So, it’s going to be interesting, it’s going to be fun, it’s going to be a tough task. It’ll be something for us to gain some extra motivation, and make training camp better.”

Maye noted that he “definitely” watched the Super Bowl loss, largely to learn from it and see what specifically he could improve.

“For me, on the biggest stage, a big game, I had a lot of plays I wish I had back,” Maye said. “And at such a young point in my career where I can still learn so much, first time playing that defense. So, you can learn things and learn about the game. So I think there’s definitely some parts that you maybe throw [away], that I maybe skip, or know that, no, I don’t want to watch that again. But definitely the game, I think you learn so much from mistakes you make yourself.”

Maye, who finished second in AP MVP voting last season, finished Super Bowl LX 27-of-43 for 295 yards with two touchdowns, two interceptions, and a lost fumble. During the regular season, Maye completed 72.0 percent of his throws for 4,394 yards with 31 touchdowns and eight picks.

The Jets and Seahawks have reportedly agreed to a trade.

Zack Rosenblatt of TheAthletic.com reports that the Jets will send wide receiver Irv Charles to Seattle. The Seahawks will send a conditional 2028 seventh-round pick back to the Jets.

Charles signed with the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2022 and spent the season on the practice squad. He appeared in 25 games over the next two seasons and saw almost all of his playing time on special teams. Charles has 14 tackles and he was targeted with two passes without recording a reception.

Charles tore his ACL late in the 2024 season and did not play at all last year. He’ll try to make the 53-man roster and resume his playing career in Seattle.

When teams win a championship, it’s common to hear talk about running it back the next season but Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is taking a different approach.

The Seahawks are a few months removed from the second championship in franchise history and they have a lot of the key pieces of their Super Bowl team in place as they head into the 2026 season. Macdonald’s message is not to repeat what the Seahawks did on their way to beating the Patriots in February, but to use it as a starting point for even more growth.

“We’re using the term, we want to run it forward, ‘it’ meaning our process and who we are,” Macdonald said, via the team’s website. “I think this is going to be a conversation that we’re going to talk about consistently. I don’t think it’s a one-and-done type of conversation. Really, it’s just how we talk about, how we operate all the time. It’s something that we’re having conversations with our team and our units every day about who we want to be and how we want to do things, and this situation is no different. It’s really nothing more or less than that.”

Only two teams have been able to win back-to-back Super Bowls this century, which underscores the challenge that is in front of the Seahawks. Macdonald said he hasn’t “sensed an ounce of complacency” so far this offseason, which makes it likely that he’ll keep pushing the “run it forward” mantra in the coming months.

Wide receiver Tory Horton, a fifth-round pick in 2025, made 13 catches for 161 yards and five touchdowns and also contributed a 95-yard punt return touchdown. But Horton had a shin injury in Week 9 that ended his season.

Horton underwent surgery, and his timetable for a return has been uncertain.

“There’s a chance that he could do some stuff toward the end of the spring,” coach Mike Macdonald said Tuesday, via Connor Benintendi of SI.com. “We’ll see.”

That’s great news for Horton’s chances of being ready for Week 1.

“Tory has made a lot of great strides,” Macdonald said. “We got some feedback that can really accelerate his recovery, which is great. He deserves some good news: He’s been working really, really hard. It’s one of those things, you don’t have a timetable until you do. It shows you’ve just got to keep grinding away at it.”

Seahawks edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence has not attended the team’s voluntary offseason workouts.

Coach Mike Macdonald said Lawrence is working through some stuff but is in great spirits.

“He’ll be here at some point,” Macdonald said Tuesday, via John Boyle of the team website.

Lawrence, 34, signed with the Seahawks in the 2025 offseason after 11 seasons with the Cowboys.

The five-time Pro Bowler had six sacks and 20 quarterback hits, giving him 67.5 sacks and 146 quarterback hits in his career.

The Seahawks are discussing a contract extension with cornerback Devon Witherspoon, but he so far hasn’t heard an offer to his liking.

Seattle made an initial offer several weeks ago, but the two sides are not close to an agreement, according to Brady Henderson of ESPN.

The Seahawks drafted Witherspoon out of Illinois with the fifth overall pick in 2023, and he’s been selected to the Pro Bowl in all three of his NFL seasons. The Seahawks picked up his fifth-year option for a guaranteed $21,161,000 salary in 2027, so he’ll be well-compensated for the next two years whether he and the Seahawks agree to a new deal or not.

The question is whether the two sides can come to an agreement that covers a lot more than the next two years. The report suggests that because Witherspoon has the same agents as another 2023 first-round cornerback who recently had his fifth-year option picked up, New England’s Christian Gonzalez, there could be a delay related to the agents wanting to make sure they’re setting the cornerback market as high as they can get it, for both of their clients.

Regardless of how close they are to a new deal, Witherspoon appears to be a happy camper, participating in voluntary offseason work and even showing up earlier than the Seahawks asked veterans to be there. Eventually, it seems likely that the two sides will come to an agreement that keeps Witherspoon in Seattle for many more years.