NFL: Champion Seahawks are going to be on ‘Hard Knocks’ this summer
Get ready for the most open, public Seahawks training camp ever.
Everyone is going to see how Mike Macdonald trains his Super Bowl champions, how Sam Darnold works pass routes with Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp and friends, how music blares through Seattle’s practices at team headquarters in Renton this summer.
The NFL decided at its league meetings Monday evening the Seahawks will be the team featured on the NFL Films production of the popular “Hard Knocks” series that airs on cable and streaming television each August into September on HBO. Ian Rapoport of the league-owned network was the first to report that Monday night from a general session of the annual NFL spring meetings in Phoenix.
This will be the first time in the 25-year history of “Hard Knocks” that Seattle is the team for the annual series It puts cameras and microphones on players and coaches in meeting rooms, film sessions and other areas otherwise off-limits to the media and public.
The league also decided the team for the 2027 training-camp “Hard Knocks” series will be the New England Patriots.
That’s the team the Seahawks dominated to win Super Bowl 60 last month in Santa Clara, California, for Seattle’s second NFL championship in its 50-year history.
The “Hard Knock” series began in August 2001. It featured the defending Super Bowl champions that summer 25 years ago, as well: the Baltimore Ravens.
Macdonald, 38, was a 14-year-old grade-schooler way back then.
This story was originally published March 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM.
