When the Seattle Seahawks committed $100.5 million to Sam Darnold this spring, plenty of well-minded folks scratched their heads. Didn't the Seahawks just get done watching Darnold fizzle out with the Minnesota Vikings ? Didn't they watch the Vikings, who'd just won 14 games, say thanks but no thanks to their own reclamation project? And most puzzling of all, wasn't Darnold essentially just a discounted version of previous starter Geno Smith , who'd just been traded to the Las Vegas Raiders ?

Well, it's early in the 2025 NFL season. There is still an abundance of time for promising stories to go south. But four games in, or roughly a quarter of the way into the regular season calendar, the Seahawks are 3-1, well positioned to usurp the San Francisco 49ers as NFC West favorit

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