Through 12 games, the Seattle Seahawks have crafted one of the league’s most balanced, tough-minded résumés in 2025.
Sam Darnold has played the cleanest, most composed football of his career. The ground game, with Zach Charbonnet’s bruising style and Kenneth Walker’s explosive change-ups, has the flexibility to adapt to any environment, especially as winter sets in. And defensively, Seattle has bullied opponents at all three levels, leaning into a young, violent core that rarely loses the line of scrimmage.
But if Mike Macdonald's group is going to push into January and survive there, the defining factor won’t be Darnold’s steadiness or the front seven’s physicality; it will be whether Seattle can find someone -- anyone -- to consistently produce behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba.