John Schneider has been in his bag lately, and the result is a Seattle Seahawks roster among the youngest in the NFL.
According to the current 53-man rosters, Seattle is tied with the Cincinnati Bengals for the fourth-youngest team heading into the 2025 season. Here’s the group:
- 1. Green Bay Packers – 25.23 years
- 2. Philadelphia Eagles – 25.49
- 3. Dallas Cowboys – 25.74
- 4. Seahawks – 25.77
- 5. Bengals – 25.77
As the team has not changed much in the last month, this falls dead on with projections from August 1st.
Seattle
has 13 players under the age of 24. It’s the entire rookie class – nine of them, led by 21-year-old Nick Emmanwori. Alongside them are 22-year-old sophomore Byron Murphy, 23-year-old AJ Barner, and 3rd year star Jaxon Smith-Njigba, still just 23.
Dee Eskridge was 24 when he was drafted. But many of us have forgiven the Seahawks for doing these types of things.
Some of us, at least.
Anyway, the age at the top of the roster didn’t change all that much this year. Tyler Lockett and Geno Smith came off the books, but Cooper Kupp and DeMarcus Lawrence came on. Far more, the young roster comes from a massive rookie and free agent class plus that guy we pilfered from the Rams, along with greater draft class retention than the late 2010’s. Anybody else remember John Schneider’s impressive run of 3rd-and-4th round wide receivers that never made the team? Amara Darboh and Gary Jennings, anyone?
In case anyone’s missed the vibe here, this is good news. It is not beneficial to be young and bad. But Seattle is not bad. Getting younger has been part of that in some ways, and the flood of talent the previous two years – nice to see the continued resurgence of successful Undrafted Free Agents for sure – has given the team a great outlook on this season. The Seahawks project to have 12 starters this season under the age of 25. Again, not because they’re bad and out of options. These are good picks, good trades, young stars, like Devon Witherspoon and JSN, leading this team into a positive future.
