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SEATTLE – The Seahawks entered the weekend in the bottom three in the NFL in available cap space remaining for the 2024 season.

The Seattle Seahawks are 1-0 under new coach Mike Macdonald after a 26-20 victory at Lumen Field on Sunday. And all there is to say at this point is … They’re lucky they played the Broncos.

SEATTLE – Halftime in the Seattle Seahawks locker room on Sunday had to go something like this:

SEATTLE – Mike Macdonald walked swiftly off the field Sunday holding his left index finger aloft and telling the remaining crowd, “That’s one. That’s one.”

Seahawks vs. Denver Broncos

In Mike Macdonald's 37 years — an age that makes him the youngest head coach in the NFL in 2024 and the youngest in Seahawks history — the one constant has been football. "Actually my first memory is throwing a football," he said in August following a training-camp practice. He paused, trying to recall more vividly that moment.

The running game, led by Kenneth Walker III, will be among the keys for Seattle in 2024.

Today’s example of hyperbolizing a small sample of preseason football into largely unsubstantiated significance for impending regular-season games: Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith’s five plays against the Cleveland Browns. Five passes. Four completions. One touchdown. One minute, 55 seconds of play.

By just about any objective measure, the Seahawks had two of the most productive rookie classes in the NFL each of the last two seasons. The 2022 class played 4,868 snaps, the second-most in the NFL, and produced an unexpected Pro Bowler in fifth-round cornerback Riq Woolen. Last year's class didn't play quite as much, though still a lot, at 3,719 snaps. 

How will Ryan Grubb get more out of quarterback Geno Smith, running back Kenneth Walker III and wide receivers DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and Jaxon Smith-Njigba in 2024? It starts with understanding their strengths.

SEATTLE – A few months after his hiring as the Seattle Seahawks’ new offensive coordinator, Ryan Grubb issued one warning – don’t expect to see a carbon copy of the offense he ran at the University of Washington the past two years.

To replace the oldest coach in the NFL with the youngest – without any head coaching experience – invites risk. But unpredictability across a broader range of potential outcomes includes high-end possibilities.

As the Mike Macdonald era opens, there will be a temptation to try to describe exactly what the Seahawks are doing defensively. It is a task that will not be completed easily. Which is just how Macdonald wants it. 

Hours after the trade of their franchise quarterback had become official, Pete Carroll and John Schneider sat inside the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, facing an uncertain future. Russell Wilson — the Seattle Seahawks’ starting quarterback for the past decade — had just completed his first news conference in Denver, parting for a package that included three players and five draft picks.

By the most basic measure — the cumulative win-loss record in 2023 of their opponents — the Seahawks have one of the easier schedules in the NFL this season. The Seahawks' 17 opponents this year combined for just a 141-148 record last season, a 48.8% winning percentage. Only six teams this year face a schedule of opponents who won fewer games in 2023. 

NFL rosters are full of players from different walks of life. There’s a growing contingent that at one point called the Inland Northwest home.

On Sept. 12, 2022, quarterback trajectories crisscrossed at Lumen Field. After sharing a position room for the previous two seasons, Geno Smith and Russell Wilson stood on opposite sidelines; the story wrote itself. Though Wilson was widely considered the superior signal caller, it was a smiling Smith who earned a postgame interview — after throwing for 195 yards and two touchdowns in the Seahawks' season-opening 17-16 win over the Denver Broncos.

This year holds a lot of firsts for New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers, including his new number.

SEATTLE – The Seahawks set their initial 53-man roster for the 2024 season Tuesday, waiving 31 players, releasing four veterans and leaving three players on the physically unable to perform list.