Seahawks 2025 opponents
Seahawks could avoid elite QBs next season
The 17-game season gives half of the NFL an advantage that nobody has talked about since the 17-game season started in 2021: Half of the league gets an additional home game each year. Well, 2024 was a 9-home game season for the Seahawks but it was certainly not an advantage.
Seattle lost four straight games at home and six of their last seven at Lumen Field, which is why the Seahawks are watching the wild card games this weekend instead of playing in them.
Maybe having 9 away games in 2025 won’t hurt that much.
Seahawks 2025 opponents
Seattle’s slate of 2025 opponents seems favorable at first glance because none of these 14 teams are favorites to reach the Super Bowl. It’s possible none of them even make it past the first round. But teams can change dramatically year over year — including the Seahawks — and Seattle’s first objective won’t budge an inch:
- Beat the Rams.
- Beat the 49ers.
- Win your damn home games.
If the Seahawks went 6-2 at home next season, they’ll need to go 7-2 on the road to have a realistic chance at the all-important number one seed.
There’s no greater advantage in sports than a bye week: Amid all the chaos of this weekend and everything that can go wrong, just remember that the Chiefs and Lions were GIVEN a playoff win by the NFL because they won the most games in the regular season.
It’s hard enough to buy a good team in free agency, but nobody can put a price on a free playoff win and a second round date at home against the lowest remaining seed.
Seahawks 2025 opponents breakdown
Games against 2024 playoff teams: 7
Games against non-playoff teams: 10
Games against teams picking in the top-10: 4
Games against division winners: 4
Games against teams that fired the head coach: 2
Games against teams with uncertain QB situations: ?
The Seahawks play the Titans, holders of the #1 overall pick in the 2025 draft. Will that be a game against a rookie quarterback or will Tennessee be able to trade the pick to a franchise that might be a little more desperate? Or will the Titans just pick the top non-QB?
Other than that, there isn’t a lot of draft intrigue on Seattle’s 2025 schedule yet.
They do have games scheduled against former number one picks Trevor Lawrence and Bryce Young, as well as quarterbacks some of us thought could be Seahawks like Anthony Richardson* and Michael Penix.
*If he’s not replaced.
But it’s impossible to project at this point which quarterbacks the Seahawks will face in 9-12 months because while some are set in stone, most of the opponents on Seattle’s 2025 schedule are in flux at the moment, including every team in the NFC West:
49ers: Do they stick with Brock Purdy like Kyle Shanahan claims they will?
Cardinals: Is Kyler Murray untouchable or do the Cards think he’s holding them back? The HC and GM didn’t draft Murray.
Rams: Is Matthew Stafford coming back for year 17?
That’s six games on the schedule that aren’t guaranteed to have the same starting quarterback that they have today, but it keeps going like this.
Colts: The HC and GM have both said that Richardson will be challenged with a veteran competition in camp.
Saints: Derek Carr is going into his 12th season, still looking for his second playoff game and first career playoff win. Saints should bite the bullet, but will they?
Vikings: Do they keep Sam Darnold and what will it cost them?
Titans: They don’t really have a quarterback right now. This is a team that the Seahawks will want to face in Week 1.
Steelers: Russell Wilson and Justin Fields are both free agents, but neither one of them played good enough to be assured of anything.
Jaguars, Panthers, Falcons: We assume that their drafted “franchise QBs” will continue to be their QBs, but will they?
After all that, we are only left with these names: C.J. Stroud, Baker Mayfield, and Jayden Daniels.
As the Seahawks ascertain how badly they need Geno Smith, they won’t be the only ones considering a change at quarterback. The QB carousel could be stagnant or chaotic, but one thing is for sure: The Seahawks are avoiding Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Justin Herbert, as well as the Eagles, the Lions, and the Packers.
Losing the division title may hurt now, but by avoiding the Ravens, Lions, and Eagles (teams on the Rams’ first place schedule), a second place finish could help Seattle’s chances in the future.
Now they just need to help themselves.
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The Texans will advance to the next round, but the Chargers weren’t much of a team.
The entire NFC West has a theoretically “easy” schedule — the highest schedule is Rams at #17 and even so it’s below .500 at .491. Seattle is tied for #21 at .474, Cards are tied for 27th at .454 and SF has the easiest schedule at .415, substantially easier than the rest of the division. They have a lot of things to work out but they were also very hard hit by injuries. Am concerned about those guys. Although as SSJ says, lots will change between now and September.
But this is the kind of schedule where a division should produce two playoff teams and maybe even three — NFC North and East play each other and have the top 8 toughest schedules in the NFL (Ravens and Steelers round out the top 10). Hopefully those two divisions beat each other into a pulp and make things a little easier for the Hawks.