Seattle Seahawks 2026: The Coverage Report — 29 Super Bowl picks, 20 of them filed in February

The Seahawks won the title in the 2025 season, going 14-3 and beating New England in the Super Bowl. That result runs through everything our tracked outlets said about them, and it makes Seattle, on paper, the best-covered team in the database. On closer inspection, "best-covered" mostly means "picked correctly once the picking was easy."

One caveat up front, and only once: everything below measures the outlets and shows MissedTakes tracks, not all of football media. A pundit's absence here means we did not capture him, not that he said nothing.

The coverage baseline: heavy, and unusually well-graded

Grouping every take in the database by team subject, Seattle sits high in both columns.

• 660 takes about the Seahawks, 12th of 32 clubs. Buffalo (1,026) and the Rams (915) lead.
• 277 graded takes, fifth of 32 — behind Kansas City (389), the Rams (326), Buffalo (309) and New England (300).
• The league average is 212 graded takes per club. Seattle is 65 above it.

So: heavily covered, not thinly. And the grades are the friendliest in the league. Seattle takes average 75.0 accuracy and a +58.6 skill delta — both the highest of any of the 32 teams. Nothing else clears 68 on accuracy; Carolina is next on skill at +55.5. Against the Ravens' 29.9 accuracy, Seattle looks like the one club pundits simply understood.

Where that accuracy came from

Sort Seattle's graded takes by type and the answer is immediate. Super Bowl Picks: 29 graded, 100.0 average accuracy, +104.8 skill. Every single one was right, because every single one named the team that won.

Then check the dates.

Two of the 29 were filed before the postseason. Comedian Adam Ray said it on August 28, 2025 — "Seahawks win the Super Bowl" — with 18 weeks left, and scored the only 200 skill delta in the group. Gregg Rosenthal got there on November 21: "I just think I think they might win the Super Bowl. I think they would be my pick right now." Seven weeks out, +139.

The other 27 came in January and February, and 20 of them landed on February 3 or later, once the matchup itself was known. All 20 grade at 100 accuracy and exactly +100 skill — our scoring gives them no lead-time credit, which is the point. David Harrison's February 18 entry is the purest version: he recounted a pick he had already made at the start of the postseason. It still counts as a graded, correct Super Bowl call.

A team's coverage looks excellent when a plurality of the graded record is a champion pick placed at or near zero weeks remaining.

Where the field actually earned it: the NFC West

The genuinely early money was on the division, and it was good. Division Winner calls on Seattle: 13 graded, 84.6 accuracy, +162.5 skill. Eleven of the 13 were correct; the two misses are Marcus Mosher power-rankings calls from late 2024, when Seattle did not win the West.

The 2025 hits were placed early and against the grain — the naive pick in that division was the Rams, so backing Seattle was worth full difficulty. Matt Hasselbeck filed on July 14, 2025. Colin Cowherd called it his shocker on August 13. Kyle Brandt filed it four separate times, starting September 2, and returned in November to say so: "not as a wild card, not behind the Rams, not behind San Francisco, but the Sam Darnold, wildly unproven Seahawks." Each of those preseason calls scored +200.

What nobody had was the size of it. Seattle's season win-total record is 8 graded at 20.0 average accuracy — the worst-graded claim type on the team. Seven calls covered the 2025 season, against 14 actual wins:

Richard Sherman's 11 was the closest at 40 accuracy and +70 skill. Brady Quinn at 5-12 and Cowherd's Week 1 "could win nine games" both graded 0 and −10. Across the field, our win-total consensus has Seattle 2025 as a collective miss of 5 wins on 7 calls — one of the largest group misses of the season, alongside New England and Denver at the same margin.

The shape is consistent: the field saw a division winner and missed a 14-win champion by a mile, then unanimously picked the champion in February.

The roster cutdown: 35 calls, none graded

This series' news hook does not have a record here yet. Filtering Seattle to Roster Spot Calls returns 35 takes and zero grades — the type does not even appear in Seattle's graded-by-type table. Site-wide, only 49 roster-spot calls have been graded at all. So there are no surprises to lead with, because nothing has settled.

What is on file, pending: Shannon Sharpe expecting Seattle to keep Jalen Milroe with Drew Lock as the clear No. 2; Nathan Jahnke flagging sixth-round receiver Emmanuel Henderson Jr. as eighth on the depth chart with "his roster spot in question"; Brendon Nelson expecting the team to live with Jason Myers at kicker; Randy Gurzi projecting Trevon Diggs to open on the practice squad. Several of those writers do not have pundit pages on the site. Check back when the grades land.

Who has a named record on Seattle

Fifteen pundits clear five graded Seahawks takes. The most-graded:

Below that the samples get thin fast. Kyle Brandt's Seattle line reads 5 graded, 100.0 accuracy, +182.4 skill — which is the division call scored several times over, not a body of work. Chris Brockman is 8 graded at 98.5. Neither number should be read as a ranking.

By outlet, The Herd with Colin Cowherd supplied by far the most Seattle material we grade — 126 takes, 85 graded, 74.5 accuracy — with Move the Sticks (26 graded, 93.9) and First Things First (21 graded, 75.1) next.

The rest of the graded record is ordinary: 63 Game Outcome picks at 87.3, 31 score predictions at 79.7, 47 mock-draft picks touching Seattle at 58.1, 17 award picks at 41.2. The scoring methodology explains why a February champion pick and an August one are not the same call, and Seattle 2025 is the cleanest example of that gap the database has produced.