The Seattle Seahawks have been masterful on the road under Mike Macdonald. In two seasons under their Super Bowl champion head coach, they’ve won 15 out of 17 games away from Lumen Field, including all eight of their 10 am PT trips to the central and eastern time zones. Has anyone checked on Coach Macdonald’s Spotify playlist? Because it seems whenever the Seahawks play on the road he seems to enjoy “The Sound of Silence” better than Simon, Garfunkel, and the whole of Disturbed.
Anyway, the Seahawks
will have eight road games in the 2026 regular season. Unlike the past few seasons, travel will be comparatively shorter for the champs, which is easily explainable. Bill Speros does an exemplary job of tracking the air miles for every NFL team, and the Seahawks are only 10th for most miles traveled.
The Seahawks play the whole of the AFC West, with the furthest eastward team (Kansas City Chiefs) coming to Seattle. They also play the NFC East and the Carolina Panthers, so their long trips and indeed their only treks to the East Coast will be against the Panthers, Washington Commanders, and Philadelphia Eagles. Their one NFC North game is at home versus the Chicago Bears, while their “17th game” extra opponent versus the New England Patriots is also at Lumen Field.
Unlike the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams, who will start their season in Australia, the Seahawks don’t have any international games on the menu. Heck, San Francisco has a home game in Mexico City later in the year, so they’re unsurprisingly racking up the most frequent flyer miles of anybody.
Based on the past six regular seasons, this will be the fewest total miles the Seahawks have traveled this decade:
- 2025: 31,302 miles (3478 average round-trip miles)
- 2024: 25,797 miles (3224.62 average round-trip miles)
- 2023: 31,600 miles (3511.11 average round-trip miles)
- 2022: 29,446 miles (3680.75 average round-trip miles)
- 2021: 28,050 miles (3116.66 average round-trip miles)
- 2020: 28,982 miles (3662.75 average round-trip miles)
Compare that to 2026, when Seattle’s average round-trip will only be 2757 miles. Any little advantage helps. If Seattle has the No. 1 seed again this year and returns to the Super Bowl, the big game is in Inglewood, so ideally Week 17 versus the Carolina Panthers is the last time the Seahawks even have to leave the West Coast.
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