The Seattle Seahawks were supposed to be practicing on Monday as part of voluntary Organized Team Activities (OTAs), but instead they can cool down in the warm weather ahead of their rescheduled start of mandatory minicamp.
Initially, the plan was for nine OTA workouts starting on May 27 and ending on June 12, with minicamp running from June 17-19. Last week, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald opted to boot the last few OTA sessions to the curb and move minicamp up.
Coach Mike Macdonald has done the players’ favorite offseason thing: bagged the final week of voluntary OTAs and moved up the one mandatory minicamp up a week. It will now be next week. Then the #Seahawks will be off from it ending June 12 until training camp begins late July. pic.twitter.com/SVy7nR5f2I
— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) June 3, 2025
It should be noted that the Seahawks could choose to hold those remaining voluntary OTAs (slated for June 9th and 11th-12th) after minicamp. If those OTAs aren’t used then it’s summer vacation time following the 12th. Seattle already had perfect attendance last week, so that’s encouraging.
Michael Bennett, Bruce Irvin skipped them. Marshawn Lynch wasn’t here. ‘Cuz he couldn’t get fined.
Yet I saw every 1 of 90 #Seahawks at OTAs this week.
Shows Mike Macdonald has what every young coach must: Buy-in.
Ernest Jones knows it could be huge https://t.co/qoGu79bNnN
— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) June 6, 2025
This doesn’t really affect any Seahawks fans since you’re not allowed at any of these practices until training camp, but it does mean there’s a potentially longer gap between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp, of which we’ll find out the dates for those public practices very soon.