Is it the offensive of Seahawks better now than last season?

Palm Beach, Florida.-Los Seattle Seahawks are in the middle of a full-row transformation into the offensive. With the NFL draft of 2025 still three weeks and more additions at the departure, they have already replaced their titular field marshal and two of its three main receptors. They will execute a new scheme of a new coordinator, Klint Kubiak, who brought several attendees selected with him.

That sea change was in the center of a question to the second year coach Mike Macdonald, who was asked Tuesday at annual league meetings if his offensive has improved.

“I think it’s different,” he said. “I mean, we have a long way to go. We have different players in the building, and we are really excited about those boys. But as a football team, we have to do a great job during the low season program of the installation of our process again, not omit the steps, being connected as a football team, doing all the right things so that we reach the earth in September. But you cannot evaluate where we are compared to last year because there are so many different pieces.” “

The Seahawks seemed to simply go to the offensive, but it became a reconstruction when general manager John Schneider exchanged the Marshal of Campo Geno Smith and the star receiver DK Metcalf in a period of three days before the start of free agency. Those unexpected movements followed the early release of Tyler Lockett, the second largest prolific passes in the history of the franchise. Schneider then signed Sam Darnold, Cooper Kupp and Márquez Valdes-Scantling as their respective replacements.

The question raised for Macdonald is best answered when seeing the general panorama, because that new trio is possibly less talented than the previous one.

In the last two seasons, Darnold began 14 games less than Smith and had a higher touchdown relationship (2.8 compared to the percentage of 1.7) and outside Smith’s goal (13.8% compared to 12.3% Smith). Since the beginning of 2023, Metcalf and Lockett combined for 65 games, 55.4 Yards of game reception, 3,600 reception yards, 20 touchdowns and 982 yards after capture. In the same period of time, KUPP and Valdes-Scantling combined for 54 games, 40.2 yards per game, 2,173 reception yards, 16 touchdowns and 818 yards after capture.

Despite the numbers, Seahawks hope to be better for those swaps by taking into account financial savings, scheme adjustments, team culture, as well as the second and third round selections that added in the operations of Metcalf and Smith.

The three -year agreement and $ 105.5 million of Darnold will pay him $ 37.5 million in 2025. The Seahawks sent Smith to the Las Vegas Raiders for the General Selection 92 once they considered him not willing to participate in conversations for contract after their initial offer. It included $ 40 million in year 1, according to sources familiar with negotiations, a figure that could easily have grown had progressed negotiations.

But when Smith resisted, Schneider and Macdonald turned to Darnold, who came from a Pro Bowl season with the Minnesota Vikings and had a previous relationship with the new Kubiak offensive coordinator of the year in which they passed along with the San Francisco 49ers in 2023.

“You come from all these different angles of people in the building who have worked with him even until his USC days and really, a man … They love the person, love the leader, the teammate,” Macdonald said. “The film speaks for itself with its precision, capable of pushing a ball through the field. Specifically with us, we move our pocket a little now, so Sam is a great release in the race and he can make many plays in that way and then in these low criticisms in the red zone and in the third Down, especially last year, he had a great year and we will be counting on him in those situations in those situations.” “” “.

Metcalf had been unhappy in Seattle before requesting an exchange last month, which led the Seahawks to send it to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for the 52nd general selection and an exchange of selections of late round. According to team sources, he had asked several times in the recent offsensons. That was a factor that Seahawks had to weigh in addition to the inherent risk of giving it a third mass contract such as the extension of four years and $ 132 million that obtained from Pittsburgh.

That agreement will pay Metcalf $ 35 million this season. Lockett was ready to win $ 17 million if they stayed with the Seahawks. The three-year agreement and $ 45 million KUPP will pay you $ 17.5 million in 2025, while Valdes-Scantling will earn $ 4 million in its one-year contract.

Schneider said that KUPP had three or four teams interested in signing it, and that Yakima’s native, Washington, “wanted to return home.” The general manager called him “great obtaining for us.”

“You could have it covered in paper, but it will still open,” Macdonald said about KUPP, a single Bowl selection at once. “That is something that you have to experience in the game. Therefore, it is a guy that you have to take into account in many of the possessions and situations of high leverage in which you have to have two types in this type. It is a bit different from the vertical types of straight line where you want more than a double low, you want you to surround them as much as possible and that they are wasting the resources of the resources of the voltage points. A pain in the back.”

Seahawks could still add an early receiver in the draft, but for now, Valdésas sessions such as No. 3 behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Kupp. The veteran deep threat spent the second half of last season playing for Kubiak with the New Orleans Saints.

“You can really see your offensive last year in New Orleans and imagine it now, especially with MVS here,” Schneider said. “We thought it was going to be DK, but here we are, so now MVS is the type of takeoff, JSN can remove the upper part and then Cooper gives us a deceptively fast guy who works in the middle of the field, establishing the people. Those two who work with each other will be very difficult to defend with the narrow divisions and everything.”

The interior of the Seahawks offensive line remains a great question sign. The team was prepared to spend a lot of money on guard Will Fries before signing with the Vikings, but he was the only high -price veteran liner they planned to follow. They have visited with lower cost options such as Teven Jenkins, Dillon Radunz and Lucas Patrick, who later signed elsewhere.

“We brought several types and it hasn’t been adequate,” he said.

The lack of urgency to address the interior places is linked to the team’s confidence in their young internal options on the available veterans, which, according to Schneider, is shared both by the coaching staff and by the personnel department. He believes that these players will be in better positions to succeed in the Kubiak scheme, with their emphasis on the attack of the huge area and the low -center plays, which in the offensive of former coordinator Ryan Grubb, first in the shotgun offensive, which ended 21 in annotation and 14th in recent years.

Schneider volunteered that it will be difficult to find an update in the center in the draft, given the way Seahawks does not consider that this year’s class is particularly strong in that position. That suggests that your best opportunity to find a blue chip talent for the new Mike Benton line coach unit will be on guard. Schneider is still open to add a veteran liner at some point, but said that it would probably not happen until after the draft, and that it could be someone who is available as a victim.

The Seahawks have five selections in the Top 92 and 10 selections in total. Overthecap.com estimates its capitalization space available at more than $ 30 million. Then, either through the draft or the veteran market, Schneider and Macdonald will have wide resources to maintain their offensive transformation.