In 2025, the Seattle Seahawks had the best special teams unit in the sport. By some measures, it was a historically good special teams unit. It was fairly predictable that they would take a small step back, just because it’s hard to be that good two years in a row.
The Seattle Seahawks are probably still shocked by how Week 3 went down. The team went across the country and lost to the Washington Commanders. It was a disappointing result, and there’s not just one reason for the loss.
Jadarian Price has a fumble problem. He had one in college, and he has one in the NFL. That problem is dramatically reducing his value to this team. And unless he can address and significantly reduce the problem, he’s probably not going to work out for the Seattle Seahawks.
It was another brutal game for Seattle Seahawks rookie running back Jadarian Price against the Washington Commanders in Week 3. For as many glimpses of potential that Price has shown, he has one key issue that continues to plague him and that is fumbling.
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The Seattle Seahawks may have lost their first game of the season against the Washington Commanders, but the team isn't going to be pushing the panic button quite yet.
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The Seattle Seahawks are in the loss column for the first time in nearly a year after falling 33-31 to the Washington Commanders during their Week 3 contest inside Northwest Stadium.
Mike Macdonald and the Seattle Seahawks are finally facing some adversity. In Week 3, the team lost for the first time in almost a year. It was a shocking result, but also not the end of the world.
If there’s one thing we learned in Week 3, it’s that winning games in the NFL is very hard. The Seattle Seahawks looked completely unstoppable over the first two weeks of the season, and then in Week 3, they lost to a team that had previously looked like one of the worst teams in the league.
When Jaxon Smith-Njigba broke virtually all of the Seattle Seahawks’ single-season receiving records in 2025, it seemed almost impossible that he could ever outdo his Offensive Player of the Year season.
Seattle’s franchise-record 12-game winning streak ended in stunning fashion Sunday, as the previously winless Commanders shocked the defending Super Bowl champions 33-31 despite starting backup quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold’s career performance in Week 3 was overshadowed by one mistake. His fourth-quarter throw was picked off by Washington Commanders linebacker Kain Medrano and returned 50 yards for a touchdown, which proved to be the decisive score in a 33-31 Washington victory.
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A lot can change in one week, and the sentiment around the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks being the NFL’s team to beat will shift after a 33-31 loss to the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
The Seattle Seahawks lost for the first time in almost a year on Sunday. The team fell to the Washington Commanders, who were able to knock the Seahawks off despite playing their backup quarterback.
The Seattle Seahawks did not expect to get their first loss of the season in Week 3. The team looked like the league’s best squad over the first two weeks, and they were playing the winless Commanders in Week 3.
The Seattle Seahawks took a significant step back in terms of being considered the top of the elite teams in the league. The Seahawks looked unprepared and unresponsive as they lost their first game since Week 11 of last season in a humiliating 33-31 road loss to the Washington Commanders.
The Seattle Seahawks were widely expected to dominate in Week 3, as they entered Washington on a massive winning streak and were up against a backup quarterback in Marcus Mariota.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the only player since 2000 with 400 receiving yards and six receiving touchdowns through three games, and he’s chasing Calvin Johnson’s all-time single-season record.
Week 3 was a great opportunity for rookie running back Jadarian Price to rebound for the Seattle Seahawks. Price had a chance to show he is one of the top young offensive players in the league against the Washington Commanders.
Seattle played well enough, in theory, to win on both sides of the ball against Washington, but Sam Darnold’s fourth-quarter pick-six proved too costly to overcome.
The Seattle Seahawks elevated 29-year-old running back Velus Jones Jr. from the practice squad Saturday, adding familiar special-teams and backfield insurance before Sunday’s Week 3 road game against the Washington Commanders, via the NFL transaction wire.
Sam Darnold returns to Seattle’s lineup, while Jadarian Price and Cooper Kupp are cleared for a favorable Week 3 fantasy setup The Seattle Seahawks enter Sunday’s road game with encouraging offensive news.
The Raiders announced the elevation of WR Cody White for Week 3 of the regular season. White, 27, went undrafted out of Michigan State in 2020. He later agreed to a three-year, $2.28 million contract with the Chiefs.
There remain plenty of unanswered questions regarding the injury that Seattle Seahawks starting quarterback Sam Darnold suffered in his team's Week 1 win over the New England Patriots.
Darnold hasn't played since he suffered a glute injury that has been called a "very unique soft-tissue" problem on the Seahawks' opening offensive drive of the season.