Hitting the road for the first time in the 2025 season, the New Orleans Saints will play at the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The Saints come into this game with a record of 0-2 after close losses to the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers. Seattle enters with a 1-1 mark, rebounding to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers after losing their opener to San Francisco.

Sunday will mark just the 19th all-time meeting between the Saints and Seahawks, which include two playoff showdowns. These teams were actually once division rivals in the NFC West for one season in 1976, Seattle’s first year in the NFL. The Seahawks were then relocated to the AFC West in 1977, where they remained until 2002 NFL realignment moved them back into the NFC West.

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New Orleans faces their third straight NFC West opponent to start this season. Here’s a look back at their results against Seattle.

Saints vs. Seahawks Series History

Longest winning streak: 4 (Saints, 2016-current)

Last meeting (2022): Saints (39-32)

Last meeting at Seattle (2021): Saints (13-10)

New Orleans has had more success than most when traveling to Seattle, winning their last two trips there and owning a winning road record against the Seahawks during the regular season. Of course, the two postseason matchups between these franchises live in Saints postseason infamy.

On Jan. 8, 2011, the Saints came into the playoffs as defending Super Bowl champions and with an 11-5 record. However, they entered as a wild-card team due to their second place finish in the NFC South. As a result, they had to play the first round on the road at NFC West champ Seattle, despite the Seahawks 7-9 record. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was incredible, throwing for 404 yards and 2 scores, but a New Orleans running game decimated by injuries could only muster 77 yards on the ground. A New Orleans defense that ranked 4th during the regular season also could not stop the Seahawks, who rolled up 415 yards of offense and 150 on the ground. Particularly unstoppable was Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch, who rumbled for 131 yards. Late in the fourth quarter, Lynch would ricochet through the entire Saints defense on a 67-yard touchdown run that put the game out of reach on a play that became known as ‘Beast Quake’. Seattle took the upset win by a score of 41-36.

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Late in the 2013 season, the Saints were routed by a 34-7 score on a Monday night in Seattle. New Orleans would still finish 11-5 that year and would return to Seattle in the Divisional Playoffs Round after winning their first-round playoff game. Seattle, who went on to win the Super Bowl that year, would get 140 yards rushing from Lynch and held a 16-0 halftime lead. The Saints rallied behind 309 passing yards from Brees and 144 receiving yards on 11 catches from Marques Colston had a chance to tie the game late. Unfortunately, an illegal forward pass by Colston after an onside kick recovery would be the final play in a 23-16 loss.

That would be the last loss New Orleans had against the Seahawks. They’ve won four straight against them since, including two matchups in Seattle. On the last of those road wins in 2021, New Orleans held the Seahawks to just 219 yards of total offense during a 13-10 victory on a Monday night. The script was flipped during the last matchup between these teams in 2022 in the Superdome. Seattle and New Orleans combined for 834 total yards and 71 points, with Taysom Hill scoring the last of his four touchdowns late in a 39-32 victory.

Hill is on the PUP list and unavailable for this matchup, as each team has different head coaches, quarterbacks, and vastly different personnel from when they last played. Under second-year head coach Mike MacDonald, the Seahawks had a 10-7 record last year but went just 3-6 at home. New Orleans is looking for their first win under first-year head coach Kellen Moore, while Spencer Rattler enters with an 0-8 record as a starting quarterback.

Notable Numbers

Saints running back Alvin Kamara has faced the Seahawks three times. In those matchups, he has 223 rushing yards with 25 receptions and 311 yards with 3 total touchdowns.

In six career meetings against Seattle, Cameron Jordan has 4 sacks and 8 tackles for loss

Spencer Rattler will be the fifth different starting quarterback in their last five meetings against the Seahawks (Brees, Teddy Bridgewater, Jameis Winston, Andy Dalton, Rattler)

Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold started three games against the Saints while with the Carolina Panthers, with his statistics declining in each outing. Darnold’s overall numbers against New Orleans are 480 passing yards, 2 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, 11 sacks, and a 60.8% completion percentage

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This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: Saints at Seahawks: Series history, records, and notable stats