Seahawks win 2026 Tremendous Bowl. Listed here are the highlights from the large recreation.

What to know because the Seahawks declare their second Tremendous Bowl title

It took greater than a decade, however the Seattle Seahawks and their followers lastly obtained their revenge Sunday for the well-known Malcolm Butler play, defeating the New England Patriots 29-13 in Tremendous Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, to earn their second title in franchise historical past. Within the course of, they denied the Patriots what would have been a league-leading seventh Tremendous Bowl win.

In a Tremendous Bowl rematch that was a defensive battle from the outset, Seahawks kicker Jason Myers transformed 5 subject objectives, a Tremendous Bowl document, and quarterback Sam Darnold threw for 202 yards and one landing. Working again Kenneth Walker III rumbled for 135 yards on the bottom, incomes himself Tremendous Bowl MVP honors, the primary working again to take action for the reason that Denver Broncos’ Terrell Davis in 1998.

“We went by way of a number of adversity this season, however we got here collectively and we caught collectively,” Walker stated after the sport. 

In a recreation devoid of drama, the Patriots by no means appeared to pose a menace to the Seahawks, and the one uncertainty gave the impression to be which shock company Unhealthy Bunny would function in his highly-acclaimed halftime present.

Darnold, who resurrected his profession, has capped one of many best redemption arcs ever seen in soccer with a Lombardi Trophy after he was thought of by many to have been a draft bust. After throwing 14 interceptions within the common season, third-worst within the league, he did not throw a single choose within the playoffs. 

“It is unbelievable, , simply every thing that is occurred in my profession, however to do it with this crew, I would not need it some other approach,” Darnold stated. “…Our protection, I am unable to say sufficient nice issues about our protection, our particular groups.”   

And possibly nobody was extra vindicated than former Tremendous Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp, who led the Seahawks in receiving with 61 yards on six catches. The Los Angeles Rams, pondering Kupp’s greatest days had been behind him, launched him final offseason, solely to see him signal with their division rival Seahawks.   

The Seahawks defensive entrance was stifling, sacking Patriots second-year quarterback Drake Maye six instances. He completed with 295 yards passing, with two touchdowns and two interceptions, together with a choose six. All his scoring, nonetheless, got here late, when the sport was out of attain. 

His fumble early within the fourth quarter led to the Seahawks’ solely offensive landing of the sport, a 16-yard seize by tight finish AJ Barner. Then, with underneath 5 minutes to play, Seahawks nook Devon Witherspoon knocked the ball out of Maye’s hand on a blitz, and linebacker Uchenna Nwosu scooped it within the air and ran 45 yards for the rating, setting off a celebration in Seattle.    

The 2 groups mixed for a staggering 15 punts within the recreation.

Since 2015, Seattle followers have carried the bitter style of Tremendous Bowl XLIX, when the Patriots edged the Seahawks 28-24 because of Butler’s beautiful purpose line interception of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson within the recreation’s waning seconds, some of the well-known performs in NFL historical past.

It was a distinct solid of characters Sunday to that 2015 recreation, and a wholly totally different consequence.

The Seahawks and Patriots weren’t thought of severe contenders heading into the season, and this marked the primary time since 1989 that two groups with preseason title odds of 60-to-1 or worse made the Tremendous Bowl, in keeping with Professional Soccer Reference and The Athletic’s Mike Sando. 

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald proved to have met the problem of changing beloved longtime coach Pete Carroll in 2024, who sarcastically parted methods with the Seahawks in the future earlier than the Patriots did the identical with the legendary coach Invoice Belichick.

And Macdonald outdueled Patriots coach Mike Vrabel Sunday, who had no solutions for Seattle’s dominant protection.

“We imagine in one another, we love one another, and now we’re world champions,” Macdonald stated on the rostrum as he hoisted the Lombardi trophy. 

Enjoying within the hardest division in soccer, one which produced three playoff groups with a mixed document of 38-13, the Seahawks have been wonderful all season. They defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Week 18 to complete with a 14-3 document and clinch the No. 1 seed within the NFC and a first-round bye. 

Within the divisional spherical, they crushed the injury-plagued 49ers 41-6, after which in a back-and-forth thriller, defeated the Los Angeles Rams 31-27 within the NFC title recreation.