The Seahawks climbed the NFL mountain in 2025, and now they must figure out how to keep everything together.
After every NFL season, there is ample player turnover, with trades and cuts, which usually means no team is ever truly the same the following year, and the Seattle Seahawks might find that out this offseason.
After winning the Super Bowl, Seattle is the talk of the town, but when you are at the top, you are now the hunted for all 31 other teams.
And when the only item on the menu is figuring out how to stop you, one avenue to attack is the roster, trying to steal players deemed too pricey to keep or those entering free agency.
For the Seahawks, yes, winning the Super Bowl was the ultimate goal, but now comes the hard part, or as ESPN's Brady Henderson says, the impossible part.
Keeping this group together.
"Super Bowl teams are impossible to keep together, and the Seahawks already lost a big piece in offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak (hired by the Raiders)," Henderson wrote. "Running back Kenneth Walker III headlines Seattle's list of unrestricted free agents.
"Seattle's other big-name free agents are on defense -- cornerbacks Riq Woolen and Josh Jobe, safety Coby Bryant, and outside linebacker Boye Mafe. Coach Mike Macdonald's top-ranked scoring defense is guaranteed to look different in 2026."
Per Over The Cap, Seattle has a little over $63 million in cap space, so there is something to work with.
But if we look at the players Henderson mentioned, keeping all might very well be impossible.
Spotrac.com has the current market value of those mentioned as follows: Walker ($9 million APY), Riq Woolen ($8.2 million APY), Josh Jobe ($9.7 million APY), Coby Bryant ($1`4.3 million APY), and Boye Mafe ($12.2 million APY).
That is a lot of money to potentially be tied up in five players. Not to mention Jaxon Smith-Njigba is coming up for an extension soon.
So yes, it does look like it will be a tough ask for Seattle to keep the Super Bowl-winning team together for another season. That doesn't mean they won't. Who knows, maybe all take reduced money for the chance at ring No. 2?
I doubt it, but you never know.
It has already been an offseason of change with Klint Kubiak out as OC, and it appears the winds of change are going to be blowing through Lumen Field in the coming months.
With the roster set to be the hardest hit.