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Jeremiah: Why a Seattle Seahawks rebuild wouldn't make sense
Ever since making back-to-back Super Bowl runs a decade ago, the Seattle Seahawks have spent most of their time hovering in that good-but-not-great area of the NFL hierarchy.
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Over the past 10 seasons, they have totaled nine winning records, six 10-plus-win seasons and six playoff appearances. But during that span, they haven’t advanced past the NFC divisional round. That makes them one of just four franchises – along with the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants and Chicago Bears – who haven’t reached the NFC Championship game in the past decade.
As a result, there’s been an argument in recent years that the Seahawks would be better served taking a step back and embarking on an all-out rebuild to replenish their roster with younger talent. The Detroit Lions had success with that strategy, using a draft pick haul from their 2021 Matthew Stafford-for-Jared Goff trade to turn a three-win team into a 15-win juggernaut that earned the NFC’s top seed this season.
However, NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah doesn’t see that as a realistic path for the Seahawks – especially considering the second-half upswing the team experienced this past season under first-year head coach Mike Macdonald – as he explained Wednesday during his weekly appearance on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk.
Sparked by a midseason defensive turnaround, Seattle won six of its final eight games and finished 10-7. That would have been enough to reach the playoffs in most other years, but the Seahawks ended up on the wrong end of an NFC West tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Rams.
“I just think there’s too much there,” Jeremiah said when asked about the idea of a rebuild. “Like, there’s too much to tear down to go all the way to the bottom. I don’t think they’re capable of going all the way to the bottom, and I don’t think they have any interest in doing that.”
As Jeremiah mentioned, the Seahawks have a strong core of players to build around.
For instance, Seattle has 12 players who finished among the top 30% of their respective positions in Pro Football Focus grading: quarterback Geno Smith; running backs Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet; wide receivers Jaxon Smith-Njigba and DK Metcalf; left tackle Charles Cross; defensive linemen Leonard Williams and Jarran Reed; edge rusher Boye Mafe; cornerback Devon Witherspoon; and safeties Julian Love and Coby Bryant.
In other words, from PFF’s view, roughly half of the Seahawks’ 2024 starters performed among the top one-third of players across the league at their respective positions.
In order to ascend and become a legitimate Super Bowl contender, Seattle definitely needs to bolster certain areas of its roster – none more so than the offensive line, especially along the interior. But Jeremiah believes those holes can be addressed in April’s NFL Draft.
If the Seahawks are able to do that, Jeremiah believes they can make meaningful strides on offense to pair with a surging defense that was among the league’s best over the second half of the season.
“When I look at some of their roster holes, I look at that interior of the offensive line – it’s a good draft there,” Jeremiah said. “There’s a lot of depth and there’s a lot of quality interior players. Getting an explosive, dynamic tight end into this offense? Check – there’s a bunch of them in this draft. … So I think they can make their offense look a lot different with what they could get in this draft.”
Listen to the full conversation with NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah at this link or in the audio player near the middle of this story. Tune in to Brock and Salk weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
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Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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