The Seattle Seahawks held a lighter day of practice on Wednesday, having conducted their first two days in pads earlier in the week. It’s not unexpected given they’ll be practicing every day until Sunday, so the good news for fans is that they should have normal practices later this week.
Seahawks going really light for camp practice today. No helmets or pads or even jerseys. pic.twitter.com/372Ny3W1rc
— Corbin K. Smith (@CorbinSmithNFL) July 30, 2025
Still, the Seahawks practiced and therefore there must be stuff to report on! Here’s a recap of Day
7!
News
John Schneider gets contract extended
The Seahawks are putting full faith in Schneider, whose contract was due to expire in 2027. His new deal will take him through 2031, which would be north of 20 seasons as general manager. Mike Macdonald’s contract reportedly runs through the end of the 2029 season, but hopefully Macdonald is worthy of his own extension soon. We’ll get to Schneider again a little later on.
Seahawks bring in several players for tryouts, sign one
The Seahawks brought in six players for tryouts, split evenly between three defensive backs and three running backs. Obviously Kenny McIntosh’s injury has put Seattle in a spot for running back help and just depth to get through preseason.
Micah Bernard, RB, Utah
Anthony Tyus, RB, Ohio
Kylin James, RB, UNLV
Keydrain Calligan, DB, Southeastern Louisiana
Braden Price, DB, Rhode Island
Jordan Taylor, DB James Madison
Aaron Wilson reports that the Seahawks are signing Keydrain, who was an All-Southland cornerback at SE Louisiana.
Notes and Quotes
Cooper Kupp’s high school goes to Seahawks training camp
This is a pretty cool story. Kupp, a native Washingtonian, is an alumnus of Davis High School in his hometown of Yakima. Members of the current Davis High School football team were able to attend the practice as special guests. You can read more in Ari Horton’s column on Seahawks.com.
John Schneider reacts to his contract extension
On getting that long-term commitment from Seattle:
“Just a ton of gratitude. Obviously, very thankful, a ton of gratitude to, Jody [Allen], Bert [Kolde], and Chuck [Arnold]. I appreciate Chuck’s time and effort in this whole thing. Everybody on the third floor, everybody in our building, second floor, everybody we love in the cafeteria, all the scouts, sports science, football operations, all the current players and all the great former players that have been through here that we appreciate. And just being able to move forward with Coach Mike [Macdonald] here and go win some championships.”
On how the extension talks materialized:
“I had a trigger in my contract after the [2025] draft, and at that point, we started talking and we just kept it going. To have drafted here 16 times, this is where [my wife] Traci [Schneider] and I want to be. We just kept working together and thank God it worked out.”
How he feels about the changes the team has gone through over the years under his watch:
“I’ve thought a lot about it, and I write a lot. I journal a lot and that’s just keeping your integrity and keeping things above board, and knowing what’s guiding you, obviously your faith, but just what’s best for the team, what’s best for the organization? Then once you’ve decided that, how are you going to communicate and express those thoughts and make those decisions and handle yourself with grace? That’s what I look back on with that, has everything gone smoothly? No, can we correct it as we move forward, does time heal all wounds, yeah.
“Traci and I spent an hour with Marshawn [Lynch] the other night, he didn’t talk to me for a while. Trying to be as above board, and as honest and clear as you possibly can. Not just in this industry but in life, I talk to my boys about this a lot. You start heading down that lane of trying to bs people or steer people in certain ways it’s just going to bug you in the tail. You can’t always keep up. You just have to be yourself and we take a lot of pride in that. Our whole staff, our whole football operations, everybody, we come to work every day busting our tails and we’re going to be ourselves, and we’re the best version of that.”
Kenneth Walker has a new diet
There have been issues regarding starting running back Kenneth Walker III staying healthy. It’s not like Walker is getting injured on purpose, but there is something health-related that Kenny can control: his diet.
“It’s more like a routine. Here, you get more healthy, clean foods at the facility and then my sleeping habits; I sleep at around 10 to 10:30 [pm]. These past years, even in college, I used to stay up until 1:00 [am] because I’m just staying up. It’s definitely helped a lot, and I feel much better and extra recovery definitely helps a lot when I come back out here and practice again.”
Credit to K9’s dad!
“Honestly just talking to my pops. He really helped me out with my routine and everything, my eating habits. If I eat something he’ll be like ‘Nah you shouldn’t be eating that.’ He always will talk me about that type of stuff. Now I just got the discipline to do it.”
There’s more important stuff her does talk about in his media availability, I swear!
Highlights
Here’s your one highlight. Sam Darnold to Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Watch out for this duo.
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) July 31, 2025
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Seahawks training camp continues on Thursday, July 31 at the early time of 9:45 am. Fans will be in attendance but only for season ticket holders and their guests.
In case you missed it: Field Gulls will be on-site for the Friday and Saturday practices, with a special live podcast coming from Fast Fashion Brewing in SoDo on Saturday, August 2 at 2 pm. Stop by if you have the time!
More from fieldgulls.com:
- Greg Olsen got weird about Russell Wilson and the offense
- Pre-Snap Reads 9/9: Jamal Adams talks about new scheme
- Whose house?! BILLS HOUSE!
- Matthew Stafford is going through some stuff
- Boye Mafe limited, Ken Walker does not practice for Seahawks Thursday
- Pete Carroll thinks Seahawks crowd will ‘know exactly what to do’ when Russell Wilson returns
- Field Gulls predicts the 2022 Seahawks season
