John Schneider, the general manager who helped make the Seahawks one of the best NFL franchises in the past decade, is doing well in the current one.
Schneider, who is in his 11th season as general manager of Seahawks, has signed a contract extension that will keep him in Seattle until the 2027 draft.
“I am pleased to announce that we have extended General Manager John Schneider’s contract until the 2027 project,” said Jody Allen, president of Seattle Seahawks. “In the past decade, John and coach Pete Carroll have formed a tremendous partnership and the Seahawks have established a successful, unique and truly winning culture, respected in all sports. I know we are all looking forward to seeing this continue.”
Schneider’s extension comes just a few months after Seahawks coach Pete Carroll signed an extension until the 2025 season, meaning the pair that guided the Seahawks to the most successful era in the franchise’s history will remain united for at least five seasons.
Under the leadership of Schneider and Carroll, the Seahawks have reached the postseason nine times in 11 seasons since signing in 2010, and in eight of the past nine seasons. The Seahawks won five NFC West titles, including in 2020, when they went 12-4, and reached two Super Bowls, winning the team’s first title in Super Bowl XLVIII. Upon returning to the Super Bowl the following season, the Seahawks became the only team other than New England to play in consecutive Super Bowls this century. The Seahawks have also compiled nine consecutive winning seasons, the NFL’s longest current streak.
Schneider and his scouting department acquired some of the best players in the franchise’s history and some of the most talented players of the past decade, acquiring 24 players who won Pro-Bowl honors like Seahawks – 11 draft choices, six commercial acquisitions, six free agent hires and a novice free agent not hired. Of these players, 12 also won All-Pro first or second team prizes like Seahawks. And four of those players, along with Carroll, were nominated for the 2010 team selected by the NFL and the Professional Football Hall of Fame: Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and Marshawn Lynch.
And over the past decade, the partnership that Schneider and Carroll formed, one that started in January 2010 with the two of them practically living together at VMAC for several months before their families joined them in Seattle, has been at the center of sustained success that the Seahawks have enjoyed what is so rare in the NFL today.
The goal of those first few months together was, as Schneider explained last year, it was “to get to know each other the best we can so that we can make this the best marriage, the best marriage between coach and general manager of NFL history.”
And 11 years later, Schneider and Carroll did indeed make their mark as one of the best GM / coach pairs in the business.