Jody Allen again chooses John Schneider’s Seahawks path forward, gives him new contract
Two days after John Schneider hosted his team owner at practice, she gave him a new contract.
Chair Jody Allen and the Seahawks are expected to announce soon they have signed general manager Schneider to a four-year contract extension, a league source with knowledge of the agreement told The News Tribune Wednesday morning. It will keep Schneider under contract to remain their president of football operations through the 2030 season.
Jay Glazer of Fox Sports was the first to report Schneider’s extension Wednesday.
Schneider got his previous extension in January 2021. It was to run through the 2027 NFL draft. It was believed be worth up to $4.5 million annually, among the higher salaries among the league’s GMs.
Schneider is in his 16th year as Seattle’s general manager. Then executive vice president — and coach — Pete Carroll hired the former Green Bay Packers scout as a first time GM in January, 2010.
Now Schneider will surpass the tenure of Carroll by perhaps seven years. Allen fired Carroll in January 2024, choosing Schneider’s path forward for the Seahawks over Carroll’s.
Schneider made the first head-coaching hire of his career: Mike Macdonald in Feb. 2024. He made Macdonald, then 36, the NFL’s youngest head coach.
Macdonald remade Seattle’s defense in his first season. He and Schneider cut their two starting inside linebackers in the middle of the season. They traded for former Rams Super Bowl champion Ernest Jones and promoted rookie Tyrice Knight to replace them. The defense responded by going from one of the league’s worst to begin the 2024 season to one of its best over the latter half of it.
This year, Schneider and Macdonald are remaking the offense. They traded quarterback Geno Smith, to Carroll’s Las Vegas Raiders, and replaced him with free-agent Sam Darnold, on a three-year, $100.5 million contract. They traded top wide receiver DK Metcalf, to Pittsburgh in March for a second-round pick, and replaced him with Cooper Kupp, the former Rams offensive player of the year and Super Bowl MVP from Yakima.
After missing the playoffs two times in the last three seasons, these Seahawks are all in on Schneider’s path.
This season will be key to see if that path is leading anywhere.
This story was originally published July 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM.
