Seahawks Expected to Be One of the NFL's Most Entertaining Teams in 2026

The Seattle Seahawks are coming off a huge Super Bowl win, so they’re feeling good, or at least they should be feeling confident. But, they lost a bunch of players in the offseason. So, will they still be contenders in 2026?

That question is one reason people are going to be interested in watching the Seahawks next season. It’s the “what will happen?” factor.

In a feature for USA Today published on Friday, June 12, Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz lists every NFL team from most to least entertaining. Now, this is subjective, of course. He notes that “there’s no universal standard for football aesthetics.”

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“While transactions have mostly slowed to a trickle, the period before training camps doesn’t tend to lend a lot of insight into the state of teams,” he adds. “Prior to practices starting in a more formal summer setting, it can be difficult to make substantive assertions about the upcoming campaign. But summer is meant to be a time of fun, so let’s assess each franchise on how amusing each team might be in the fall.”

He names Seattle the No. 3 most interesting team to watch in 2026.

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“The defending champions might not command the spotlight the way that several recent Lombardi Trophy winners have, but the on-field product is still a highly appealing one,” he says in the piece. “Even with Brian Fleury taking over for Klint Kubiak as offensive coordinator, the big-play identity that Sam Darnold and Jaxon Smith-Njigba established for the offense should remain in place.”

He adds: “Mike Macdonald’s vexing defense might not be fun to face, but it generates plenty of sparks for viewers.”

Whenever a team wins the Super Bowl, they become a team to watch the following season. For the Seahawks, it seems even more so that way, because Darnold is such an entertaining quarterback and also because the team is forging ahead without some of its key players.

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This story was originally published June 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM.