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SEATTLE – The record-setting Washington Huskies football team that won more games (14) last season than any other UW team made history again this weekend.

RENTON, Wash. – This young prospect seems promising, even if somewhat light on experience and new to his position.

RENTON, Wash. – The Seattle Seahawks drafted a Husky to fill a hole at guard.

CHICAGO – Caleb Williams arrived at Halas Hall on Friday, his first full day as the new Chicago Bears quarterback, with the same level of excitement and self-assuredness he has been channeling through most of his football life. Williams is nothing if not confident. His ambition is spoken by design. And his undeniable presence is, quite frankly, striking.

SEATTLE – After attacking the defensive line with their first pick in the NFL draft on Thursday, the Seahawks turned to the other side of the ball Friday, taking guard Christian Haynes of UConn with the 81st overall pick in the third round.

RENTON, Wash. – Conspiracists suggest the NFL scripts its games for maximum viewer interest.

SEATTLE – There was no trade for the Seahawks on Thursday night.

SEATTLE – The famous Al Davis-inspired Raiders slogan used to go, “Just win, baby.”

Apr. 23—What will the 2024 draft look like for the Seahawks in the first year of the post-Pete Carroll era? We'll begin to find out when the first round gets under way Thursday night. Until it does, it's time to take one last guess at what the Seahawks could do — not just in the first round with the 16th overall pick, but with each of their seven selections. What follows is my choice at each ...

Do the Seahawks really think Geno Smith has a few more years left in him beyond 2024? Do they really think Sam Howell is a viable candidate as a long-term QB of the future? Those questions linger as the 2024 draft nears. 

The NFL draft is expected to be dominated by quarterbacks when the first round kicks off Thursday night.

No, the Seattle Seahawks don’t really draft a running back every year. The Seahawks have not taken a running back in two of the last 12 drafts of the Pete Carroll/John Schneider regime. OK, so they usually have.

Some things remain unmappable, and finding the NFL franchise guy is one of them. Ask any generative AI, matrices-multiplying algorithmic gizmo which quarterback to take in the first round of this draft, and watch the fiber optics burn. This uncertainty is fun in a world of too much intelligence. But it also raises a question, especially for QB-hungry teams such as the Washington Commanders: Why is it such an annual search party?

Few teams in the NFL appear as set at the receiver position as the Seahawks do entering the 2024 season. Seattle has one of the most proven vets in the league in Tyler Lockett, now entering his 10th season; one of the more dynamic receivers in the league and smack in his prime at age 26 in DK Metcalf; and a first-round pick from a year ago who showed a flair for the big play and the ...

SEATTLE – But can he coach?

SEATTLE – John Schneider’s 15th draft with the Seattle Seahawks will be unique.

In one of his first moves as the newly named president of football operations for the Seahawks, John Schneider appeared to lay down the gauntlet on himself.

Geno Smith reacted out of instinct. As he'd done so many other times in his previous five seasons with the Seahawks, Smith reached for a basketball off the rack that stood against the wall in the walkway that led down to the front rows of seats in the auditorium of the VMAC as he walked in for a meeting earlier this week. Only this time, when Smith entered the room to hear for the first time from rookie head coach Mike Macdonald as the Seahawks began their voluntary offseason program, his reach came up empty.

For at least a few moments last month after the Seahawks acquired Sam Howell from Washington, speculation swirled that they would have a quarterback competition in 2024. That talk was quickly quashed when coach Mike Macdonald and president of football operations John Schneider said that Geno Smith remains the team's starter with Howell as the backup.