Tournament of THE Champions: Final Chance, Last Gasp, and Fateful Eight
Our Final Eight bracket, but one last chance to "bust it" wide open again
How big has the first annual Seahawks Tournament of THE Champions been so far? We aren’t even into the final eight yet and already you’ve voted over 8,000 times collectively to get us this far!
Review what’s happened so far in the tournament: Round One, Round Two, and Sleepers/Second Chances.
The last step we before the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals is to decide our “Last Gasp” winner and see if there’s one more update necessary to the bracket. Let’s get this tournament over 12,000 votes. Join Seaside Joe to have your voice heard too:
Final Chance Foursome
Only one can advance to get one last shot at the top-eight.
K Jason Myers
He survived a pool of 20 players who did not make the initial 24-player field. That would be an incredible comeback story. Myers led the NFL in attempts (48), scored every point in a win over the Colts, set a Super Bowl record for field goals, and didn’t miss a single extra point.
WR/KR/PR Rashid Shaheed
Of the eight players eliminated in round one, Shaheed is the lone survivor by way of getting more votes than Kupp, Bradford, and Arroyo in the second-chance ballot, then beating Derick Hall 55% to 45%. Shaheed was a major contributor in wins over the Colts, Rams, and 49ers. Seattle’s investment in Shaheed this year ($34 million guaranteed) doesn’t say “kick returner”, as much as it is a belief that with a full offseason he can become Sam Darnold’s number two option.
RB Jadarian Price
He beat Shaheed in round one—74% to 26%—but ran into a buzzsaw in round two when he got matched against Darnold. A rookie at any other position, we’d pump the brakes, but a running back slated to start in Week 1 on a team that loves to run the ball? How much do you trust George Holani and Emanuel Wilson?
CB Devon Witherspoon
Nobody in the last 17 years has been drafted higher by the Seahawks than Witherspoon, and unlike Aaron Curry he’s exceeded the hype. However, until Witherspoon signs an extension there’s a chance that any snag in negotiations could lead to having uncomfortable conversations within the organization about his value and future with the team.
Whoever gets the most votes will advance to “The Last Gasp”, where YOU will have one more chance to get him into the top-eight, a distinction that hasn’t been this coveted since the days of MySpace!
Share in the comments why you voted the way you voted:
The Fateful Eight—Voted by You!
We will now fold offense and defense together into a top-eight and we’ll alternate either side of the ball to create four offense-on-defense matchups (subject to change based on “the last gasp”). Also because Byron Murphy got more votes than Leonard Williams, I’m going to bump him up a notch.
Now it looks something like this:
If this bracket doesn’t prove to fans how good the Seahawks are set to be next season, then the players who didn’t make it surely does.
It’s not that these players are important and the rest of the roster isn’t. We’re talking about the eight-ranked player on this list being in pre-season conversations as the next Defensive Player of the Year. That’s how deep the group is.
I’d say at least two 2026 Pro Bowl players aren’t in that bracket, anyone from Grey Zabel to Derick Hall to Josh Jobe or A.J. Barner and many other suspects.
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Thursday’s Seaside Joe: Are the 2025 Seahawks a top-10 all-time defense?