25 numbers that sum up the Seahawks’ Super Bowl run

After a franchise-record 14-3 regular season, the Seattle Seahawks routed the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round and prevailed for a white-knuckle NFC Championship win over the Los Angeles Rams to reach their fourth Super Bowl in franchise history.

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Now, all that stands between between the Seahawks and their second Lombardi Trophy is the New England Patriots – setting up the potential for a perfect revenge arc from Seattle’s heartbreaking Super Bowl loss to the Pats 11 years ago.

Before the Seahawks run out of the tunnel at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday afternoon, here’s a look at 25 numbers that sum up Seattle’s journey back to football’s biggest stage.

The GM and head coach

• 1 – Longtime Seahawks general manager John Schneider, who was the GM during Seattle’s 2013 and 2014 Super Bowl runs, is the first GM in NFL history to reach multiple Super Bowls with the same franchise while having a completely different roster and head coach, according to NFL senior researcher Dante Koplowitz-Fleming.

• 16 – Mike Macdonald’s 16 wins this season, including the playoffs, are tied for the most by a head coach under the age of 40 in NFL history. The 38-year-old Macdonald is tied with Sean McVay, who guided the Rams to 16 wins and a Super Bowl title during the 2021 season at age 31.

On a roll

• 9 – The Seahawks enter the Super Bowl on a nine-game win streak. That’s the second-longest win streak in franchise history, trailing only their 2005 NFC title-winning team’s 11-game win streak from Weeks 5-16.

Elite company

• +230 – The Seahawks’ plus-230 point differential is the fourth-highest of any team heading into the Super Bowl since 2000, trailing only the 2007 New England Patriots (plus-335), the 2001 St. Louis Rams (plus-263) and the 2015 Carolina Panthers (plus-233), according to Stathead. The Seahawks won six games by 20-plus points this season and their three losses came by a combined 9 points.

• +44.9% – The Seahawks enter the Super Bowl with a 44.9% total DVOA rating, which is the sixth-best mark of any NFL team dating back to 1978, according to FTN Fantasy’s Aaron Schatz. DVOA, a popular advanced metric created by Schatz, measures a team’s overall efficiency by comparing success on every single play to a league average based on situation and opponent. In essence, it means that DVOA considers the Seahawks to be 44.9% better than the average 2025 NFL team. The Seahawks rank No. 8 in offensive DVOA, No. 1 in defensive DVOA and No. 2 in special teams DVOA.

The ‘Dark Side’ defense

• 17.2 – The Seahawks’ “Dark Side” defense allowed a league-low 17.2 points per game in the regular season, which marked the fifth time in franchise history that Seattle finished with the No. 1 scoring defense. The previous four times came during a dominant four-year run by the Legion of Boom from 2012-15.

• 2 – The Seahawks allowed a league-low 3.7 yards per carry and a league-low 6.0 yards per pass attempt. That makes them just the second defense over the past 15 seasons to lead the NFL in both categories. The other was the 2015 Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos.

ERNEST JONES 84-YARD PICK-SIX

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JSN’s historic season

• 1,965 – Jaxon Smith-Njigba, the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year, has a combined 1,965 receiving yards over the regular season and postseason, which is tied for the fourth-highest mark in NFL history. He trails only current teammate Cooper Kupp (2,425 with the Rams in 2021), Puka Nacua (2,047 with the Rams in 2025) and Larry Fitzgerald (1,977 with the Cardinals in 2008). Smith-Njigba’s 1,793 receiving yards during the regular season were the eighth-most in NFL history.

Touchdown JSN! 61 yards.

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Silencing the doubters

• 6 – Sam Darnold completed 25 of 36 passes for 346 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions in Seattle’s 31-27 NFC Championship win over the Los Angeles Rams. In doing so, Darnold became just the sixth quarterback in NFL history to complete at least 65% of his passes and throw for at least 325 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in a conference title game.

Guess who?! JSN.

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A special unit

• 5 – The Seahawks are one of just 10 teams in the Super Bowl era to score at least five special teams touchdowns in a season, including the playoffs. Rashid Shaheed has two kick return touchdowns and a punt return score, Tory Horton had a franchise-record 95-yard punt return touchdown and George Holani made a heads-up play with a rare end-zone kickoff recovery for a touchdown.

RASHID SHAHEED 95-YARD KICKOFF RETURN TO START THE GAME.

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A brick-wall run defense

• 1 – The Seahawks finished the regular season with the league’s No. 1 run defense DVOA rating at 30.1%, which was nearly 10 full percentage points ahead of the next-closest team, according to FTN Fantasy. That means Seattle’s overall efficiency as a run defense, adjusted for situation and opponent, was 30.1% better than the average 2025 NFL team. It was the best run defense DVOA rating of any NFL team in the past five seasons.

A game-wrecking pass rush

• 6 – Seattle’s defense has six pass rushers who recorded at least 40 pressures during the regular season, according to Pro Football Focus. No other team has more than four players with 40-plus pressures. Leonard Williams tallied a team-high 58 pressures, followed by DeMarcus Lawrence (52), Byron Murphy II (50), Uchenna Nwosu (46), Derick Hall (41) and Boye Mafe (40).

• 7 – Defensive tackles Leonard Williams and Byron Murphy II both recorded 7.0 sacks in the regular season. Across the rest of the NFL, just three other defensive tackles reached seven-plus sacks.

Leonard Williams SACK on 4th down!

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D-Law’s impact

• 3 – DeMarcus Lawrence totaled 2.0 sacks and three forced fumbles in Seattle’s two playoff games, which makes him one of just three NFL players since 2000 to reach both of those marks in a single postseason. Lawrence also had 6.0 sacks and three forced fumbles in the regular season.

The linebacking duo

• 3 – Ernest Jones IV has totaled 140 tackles and six interceptions over the regular season and postseason, which makes him just the third NFL linebacker since 2000 to hit both those marks in the same season. The others were Hall of Famer Ray Lewis and soon-to-be Hall of Famer Luke Kuechly.

• 3 – Drake Thomas, a third-year undrafted pro who logged just 41 defensive snaps over his first two NFL seasons, totaled 3.5 sacks, eight pass breakups and 10 tackles for loss in the regular season. He was one of just three NFL players this season to reach all three of those marks.

The standout secondary

• 1 – Devon Witherspoon was the league’s No. 1 cornerback in Pro Football Focus grading this season. Since returning from injury in Week 9, he’s gone 12 consecutive games without allowing a touchdown pass.

• 7 – Nick Emmanwori has totaled 15 pass breakups, one interception, 2.5 sacks and nine tackles for loss over the regular season and postseason, which makes him just the seventh NFL player since 2000 to reach all four marks in the same season.

• 41.6 – When targeted in coverage during the regular season, Julian Love allowed just nine catches on 19 targets for 100 yards, no touchdowns and one interception. That equates to a 41.6 passer rating, which was the lowest such mark among all qualified safeties in the NFL. For reference, if opposing quarterbacks had spiked all 19 of those passes into the ground, their passer rating would have been 39.6.

• 6 – Coby Bryant had four interceptions and four tackles for loss in the regular season, which made him one of just six NFL players this season to hit both of those marks. Teammate Ernest Jones IV was among the others.

The much-improved pass protection

• 27 – The Seahawks allowed just 27 sacks during the regular season, which was their lowest total in two decades and their third-lowest in franchise history. Prior to this year, Seattle had surrendered 40-plus sacks in 11 of the previous 12 seasons, including a whopping 54 sacks in 2024.

Play-action explosives

• 11.2 – Sam Darnold averaged 11.2 yards per attempt on play-action passes during the regular season, which was the the third-highest rate among qualified quarterbacks in the past five seasons, according to FTN Fantasy. Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak’s ability to scheme up deep shots off play-action is a big reason why Darnold finished second in the NFL with 8.5 yards per pass attempt, trailing only Patriots quarterback Drake Maye’s 8.9 yards per attempt.

K9’s time to shine

• 33.2% – Kenneth Walker III has a 33.2% avoided tackle rate over both the regular season and postseason, which ranks among all NFL running backs behind Atlanta Falcons star Bijan Robinson, according to FTN Fantasy. Walker has 610 yards from scrimmage over the past five games, which is the highest total over a five-game stretch in his career.

KENNETH WALKER III 55-YARD TD RUN 🚨

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The ‘Barnyard’

• 10 of 11 – Tight end AJ Barner has converted 10 of 11 short-yardage “tush push” attempts, all of which came on either third-and-1 or fourth-and-1. The 6-foot-6, 251-pound Barner has served as the Seahawks’ version of the Philadelphia Eagles’ “tush push,” and the play’s success has earned its own nickname: the “Barnyard.”

Turnover-free football

• 3 – The Seahawks have gone three straight games without committing a turnover, which is their longest such streak since Weeks 2-4 of 2021. Seattle had just three turnover-free games over its first 16 contests of the season and finished with 28 turnovers, the second-most in the league.

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