Seattle Seahawks 2022 schedule: Reunion with Russell Wilson gets season started

RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks’ 2022 schedule was launched together with the remainder of the NFL slate Thursday.

The 2022 NFL season will kick off on Thursday, Sept. 8 with the Buffalo Payments vs. the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium. ESPN opens its schedule with a Monday Evening Soccer matchup on Sept. 12 between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos in Russell Wilson’s return to Lumen Discipline.

The NFL expanded to 17 regular-season video games final season. The ultimate video games of the 2022 common season will probably be performed Jan. 8, 2023. The playoffs start Jan. 14, 2023 and proceed by way of Tremendous Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2022 in Glendale, Ariz.

Here is what in retailer for the Seahawks:

Schedule

Sept. 12: vs. Denver (MNF)

Sept. 18: at San Francisco

Sept. 25: vs. Atlanta

Oct. 2: at Detroit

Oct. 9: at New Orleans

Oct. 16: vs. Arizona

Oct. 23: at Los Angeles Chargers

Oct. 30: vs. New York Giants

Nov. 6: at Arizona

Nov. 13: vs. Tampa Bay in Munich, Germany

Nov. 20: Bye

Nov. 27: vs. Las Vegas

Dec. 4: at L.A. Rams

Dec. 11: vs. Carolina

Dec. 15: vs. San Francisco (TNF)

Dec. 24: at Kansas Metropolis

Jan. 1: vs. New York Jets

Jan. 7/8: vs. L.A. Rams

Power of schedule: eleventh, .517

Largest takeaway

It figured that the Seahawks would get fewer prime-time video games now that they not have a star quarterback, and that’s certainly the case. They’ve simply two prime-time video games in 2022, and one in every of them is towards Wilson and the Broncos. By comparability, Seattle had both 4 or 5 prime-time video games on their preliminary schedules in every of the previous 9 years, a stretch that started with Wilson’s second NFL season. They’d 5 of them (plus a sport in London) in 2018, the 12 months after they went 9-7 and missed the playoffs. Why? As a result of they nonetheless had one of many league’s most recognizable gamers. However no extra Wilson means much less prime-time enchantment for the Seahawks within the eyes of NFL schedule makers.

Revenge sport

Wilson’s return to Seattle to face his former group is such an intriguing storyline that this sport at all times appeared destined for nationwide tv. The query was when. The reply: proper off the bat. It will be the primary take a look at Wilson working a brand new offense in Denver (which was a part of the explanation he needed out of Seattle) and Drew Lock’s first probability to point out the Seahawks whether or not he could be Wilson’s long-term alternative (assuming he beats out Geno Smith). The Monday evening stage would be the best backdrop to revisit all of Wilson’s historical past in Seattle — the unprecedented success in addition to the tough breakup. Talking of inauspicious breakups, Bobby Wagner will not get to face the Seahawks till late within the season, with Seattle’s video games towards the Rams set for Weeks 13 and 18. And given the best way he is talked about his messy exit, it appears like Wagner will even have revenge on his thoughts.

What Vegas thinks

Oddsmakers put the over/beneath on Seahawks wins at 6. I am taking the over, however barely. That may appear overly optimistic for a group with a significant query mark at quarterback, however there’s sufficient expertise elsewhere on their roster — and sufficient weak-looking opponents with iffy QB conditions of their very own — to scratch out seven wins. That may require one notable upset …

Daring prediction

The Seahawks will shock Tom Brady and the Bucs in Munich. Tampa Bay has the GOAT at quarterback and a Tremendous Bowl-caliber roster round him, so anticipate them to be favored on this sport. However the Seahawks confirmed once they hammered the Raiders in London in 2018 that they will deal with the logistical hurdles of a global sport. In that regard, Pete Carroll will out-prepare Todd Bowles the identical approach he out-prepared Jon Gruden.