NFL: Champion Seahawks are going to be on ‘Hard Knocks’ this summer
NFL Films’ popular, annual series during training camp will feature the Super Bowl champions. It will Seattle’s first time on “Hard Knocks.”
Get ready for the most open, public Seahawks training camp they’ve ever had. 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 heaquarters 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 of episodes that air 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” Seattle is the team for the annual series. 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 features 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.