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Mike Macdonald’s successor as the Ravens defensive coordinator will reportedly be joining Macdonald’s staff in Seattle for the 2026 season.
Clarence Hill of All City DLLS reports that Zach Orr will be the new inside linebackers coach for the Seahawks. Orr spent the last two seasons as the defensive coordinator in Baltimore.
Per the report, Orr chose the spot on the Seahawks’ staff over filling the same role for the Cowboys.
Orr and Macdonald were on the Ravens’ staff together from 2017-2020 and again in 2022 and 2023. Orr was the inside linebackers coach and Macdonald was the coordinator in the second stint. Orr also played for the Ravens from 2014-2016 when Macdonald was a coaching intern and defensive assistant.
Seahawks assistant coach Karl Scott interviewed with the Cardinals for their defensive coordinator job this week.
Scott, though, will remain with the Seahawks with the Cardinals set to retain Nick Rallis, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports.
Scott has served as Seattle’s defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator for the past four seasons.
The Seahawks ranked first in scoring defense in 2025 and were 10th in passing defense (193.9 yards per game) and fifth in interceptions (18).
Scott interviewed for the Commanders’ defensive coordinator job this offseason and for the same role with the Raiders in 2024. His only coordinating experience came at Southeastern Louisiana in 2014.
Scott began his NFL coaching career as a defensive backs coach with the Vikings in 2021 after 14 seasons in the college ranks.
New Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak had interest in bringing one of the Seahawks’ offensive assistants with him, but Seattle isn’t interested in letting it happen.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, the Seahawks blocked run game specialist/assistant offensive line coach Justin Outten from interviewing to be Las Vegas’ run game coordinator.
Outten, 42, joined the Seahawks in 2025 after spending a pair of seasons with the Titans. He was the club’s running backs coach and run game coordinator in 2023 and stayed on under head coach Brian Callahan as tight ends coach in 2024.
He was previously the Broncos’ offensive coordinator in 2022 and the Packers’ tight ends coach from 2019-2021.
Outten is expected to be a candidate to replace Kubiak as Seattle’s offensive coordinator.
Longtime Ravens assistant coach Daniel Stern is leaving for the Seahawks.
Stern has been in Baltimore for 10 years, most recently with the title of director of football strategy/assistant quarterbacks coach. He is now taking a job in Seattle, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
We don’t yet know what Stern’s title will be in Seattle, but the report says he could be the Seahawks’ pass game strategist.
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald was a co-worker of Stern’s on the Ravens coaching staff for seven seasons, and now Macdonald will bring Stern in to work for the defending Super Bowl champions.
The Seahawks have to fill their offensive coordinator job after Klint Kubiak’s departure to become the Raiders head coach earlier this week and their first external candidate has been identified.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that they will interview Cardinals pass game specialist Connor Senger for the top offensive job on Mike Macdonald’s coaching staff.
Senger recently interviewed for the same job in Chicago, but the Bears opted to go with Press Taylor to fill that position. He also met with the Eagles before they hired Sean Mannion.
Four current Seahawks assistants have also been identified as candidates to replace Kubiak. Quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, assistant offensive line coach/run game specialist Justin Outten, and tight ends coach Mack Brown make up that list.
The Rams had to watch a division rival celebrate a Super Bowl title last Sunday and the pain of that was made all the worse by how close the Rams came to being the NFC’s representative in the game.
After splitting two games with the Seahawks in the regular season, the Rams had their chance to win the season series and the conference title in Seattle in late January. Edge rusher Jared Verse said on The Pivot podcast that the young defense came into that game feeling that “we’ve got this all sealed” because they felt they had learned from mistakes that contributed to their loss in their previous matchup with Seattle.
The Seahawks hit on a 51-yard pass to wide receiver Rashid Shaheed on their first offensive possession in the NFC title game and Verse said everyone on the unit was “kind of like s---ting the bed” as a result. Verse said that he feels the failure to turn that back around was the reason for the Rams’ loss.
“When we started having trouble, we didn’t know what to do,” Verse said. “Like some of us on the defense, some, you know, I’m going to take full blame, too. Like, there were a couple of times I’m like, but they’re running the other way. Like, I don’t know what to do. I can’t chase. Like I’m not that fast. I can’t chase him on the backside. What do I do? So when we had some troubles, we just kind of like mentally shut down.”
Verse and his teammates will get two more shots at the Seahawks this season and they’ll get a chance to show what they learned from their last experience against their division rivals.
Now that the 2025 NFL season has ended, attention has turned to the start of the next season.
And with the 49ers and Rams due to stage a Week 1 game in Melbourne, some interesting permutations are percolating.
John Ourand of Puck, who recently reported that the 49ers-Rams game in Melbourne will happen as part of the NFL’s opening weekend, now reports Rams-49ers will happen on Wednesday, September 9, or Thursday, September 10.
It could be 49ers-Rams on Wednesday, with the Seahawks’ home opener landing on Thursday. That also could flip, with the Seahawks playing on Wednesday and the Australia game happening on Thursday.
Either way, NBC will televise the Seahawks game. A to-be-determined streamer will broadcast 49ers-Rams.
It still makes a ton of sense, in our view, to play 49ers-Rams on Sunday, September 6. That would give both teams the most time possible to recover from the travel and time difference to get ready for Week 2, and beyond. Currently, however, it appears that Rams-49ers will be a midweek game — and possibly the first game of the 2026 season.
Now that the Seahawks have won their second Super Bowl, it’s time to move forward with a sale of the franchise.
Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal reports that the Seahawks have lined up outside entities to handle the process. Specifically, investment banking firm Allen & Co. and the Latham & Watkins law firm will lead the process for the Paul G. Allen Trust.
Allen bought the team in 1997. After his death in October 2018, his sister, Jody, took control of the team, with the understanding that the team would eventually be sold and the proceeds going to charity.
The league didn’t push the issue until after the expiration of a lease term in May 2024 that would have required 10 percent of the money to go to the state of Washington. Since then, the league has been pressuring Jody Allen to sell, culminating in a $5 million fine that has been held in abeyance with the understanding that the team will be sold.
The biggest question is the amount. Some within league circles believe the price will land in the range of $9 billion to $11 billion. And the fact that the Seahawks have just won the Super Bowl won’t drive the price down.
In 2023, the Commanders went for $6.05 billion, at a time when the franchise fell squarely into the fixer-upper category. The Seahawks are a turnkey operation, with no need to overhaul anything. They have a G.M. in John Schneider who has built two separate Super Bowl rosters (and who could be in line for a bronze bust in Canton). They have a young head coach in Mike Macdonald who climbed to the top of the NFL’s mountain in only his second year on the job.
There’s no heavy lifting to be done with the Seahawks. Only smooth sailing. And there’s real value in that.
Our guess? This thing is going to start moving.
The Cardinals interviewed Seahawks assistant coach Karl Scott for their defensive coordinator job, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reports.
Scott has served as Seattle’s defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator for the past four seasons.
The Seahawks ranked first in scoring defense in 2025 and were 10th in passing defense (193.9 yards per game) and fifth in interceptions (18).
Scott interviewed for the Commanders’ defensive coordinator job this offseason and for the same role with the Raiders in 2024. His only coordinating experience came at Southeastern Louisiana in 2014.
Scott began his NFL coaching career as a defensive backs coach with the Vikings in 2021 after 14 seasons in the college ranks.
The Cardinals have also interviewed Rams defensive passing game coordinator Aubrey Pleasant and Giants linebackers coach Charlie Bullen for the job.
The Cardinals’ defense was overseen by Nick Rallis for the past three seasons.
The Seahawks signed 15 players to future contracts on Thursday, including two players who took part in their Super Bowl LX win over the Patriots.
Running backs Cam Akers and Velus Jones will both be on the team’s 90-man offseason roster. Akers and Jones both saw action on special teams in the victory.
Neither player saw action on offense, but the Seahawks have some things to sort out at running back this offseason. Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker is set for free agency and Zach Charbonnet tore his ACL during the playoffs, so they can’t bank on the return of either back for the start of next season.
Akers and Jones were both elevated from the practice squad for the game. The other 13 players were either on the practice squad or on that roster’s injured reserve list.
Wide receiver Tyrone Broden, tackle Logan Brown, wide receiver Montorie Foster, cornerback Tyler Hall, safety Maxen Hook, center Federico Maranges, linebacker Chris Paul, linebacker Jamie Sheriff, nose tackle J.R. Singleton, nose tackle Bubba Thomas, linebacker Ja’Markis Weston, wide receiver Ricky White, and running back Jacardia Wright also signed new deals with the team.
