Back in 2015, Marshawn Lynch turned Super Bowl Media Day on its head with just one line: “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.” It was peak Marshawn. But two years before that, he was also the only healthy Seahawk to skip OTAs — no excuse, no explanation. Pete Carroll tried to shrug it off, saying, “This is voluntary,” while confirming Lynch was training elsewhere.

However, Seattle, even in its Legion of Boom heyday, had a rep for skipping the spring. Michael Bennett stayed back in Hawaii. Bruce Irvin sat out. Marshawn? He’d never be caught dead at OTAs if he wasn’t required to be there. It was just part of how things were — the team would come together eventually, just not in June.

But that old dynamic? It’s dead. The 2025 Seahawks are rewriting the code. Now, every single

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