The reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are not content to rest on their laurels.
We know this because they have the second-most starters returning from a championship team in the last 15 years. It would be natural for basically the same group of players and coaches to have the same exact ambition: Continuing what they started with February's Lombardi Trophy victory and going for the legendary repeat.
We also know the Seahawks are not content to sit back based on the money they've thrown around this offseason, and even dating back to last summer. Seattle has spent so much money on key members of its current championship core for the foreseeable future that you almost wonder whether the currency they're using is actually Monopoly money.
Where does it keep coming from? Oh right, the Seahawks have the Park Place and Boardwalk squares, as well as all the railroads.
With the Thursday news that the Seahawks had extended All-Pro defensive lineman Leonard Williams to a three-year, $90 million contract (with $56 million guaranteed), their plan for the rest of the decade is in full focus. The Seahawks clearly believe they can wring out another championship or two with the current make-up of their team (they are probably correct), because why else would they throw out $634 million in new contracts over the last calendar year? For the fun of it? C'mon now. By total guaranteed money, the recent extensions awarded over just the last several weeks to Williams, star cornerback Devon Witherspoon, and arguably the NFL's best receiver in Jaxon Smith-Njigba come out to over $273 million.
That's, uh, a lot of cheddar. Let's put it this way: If the Seahawks didn't think they could wrack up a dynasty of sorts, they wouldn't be handing out proverbial blank checks like this all at once. (Note: It would also be a lot harder to spend this money if quarterback Sam Darnold wasn't on such a team-friendly contract. But here we are!)
Seahawks have signed 7 players to extensions totalling $634M in last 12 months. Seattle has the second-highest percentage of returning snaps of a Super Bowl winner since 2010 (2021 Bucs higher).
— Brian Nemhauser (@hawkblogger.com) 2026-08-27T15:35:39.113Z
It is important to note that not all the money listed there is guaranteed. That's just the unfortunate reality of the NFL not fully guaranteeing its player contracts as a standard, like basically every other major American sports league, while its players risk their safety to a very high degree every game day. So, the Seahawks won't necessarily be paying out every single red cent they've "agreed" to since last summer. In fact, I would bet against that ever happening because things happen out of nowhere in pro football and "commitments" to non-guaranteed years get broken all the time.
What I do know is that this iteration of the Seahawks is committed to extended excellence. They want to stack some trophies. They wouldn't spend like this if they weren't interested in winning at all costs.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: The Seahawks have spent an absurd amount of money to keep their Super Bowl core together
