The 2025 regular season is coming to a close in two weeks, but thankfully, the Seattle Seahawks’ season won’t be over after Week 18. The team still has quite a bit to play for and could be the top seed in the NFC. Even if that doesn’t happen, Seattle is playoff-bound.

Many former Seahawks players and at least one coach won’t be so lucky. They are not only not going to the postseason, but their careers could be ending at the end of the season. Various reasons exist, but they might need to start making long-term post-career plans.

Many, obviously, play for the Las Vegas Raiders. One name not listed below, however, is, oddly, Jamal Adams. His move to inside linebacker this season might have bought him a couple of more years.

These former Seattle Seahawks might be done with their NFL careersLas Vegas Raiders head coach Pete Carroll

Carroll’s tenure was probably always doomed. The roster given to him, even after so many former Seahawks players were added to it (more on that below), was not good enough to win in a very difficult AFC West. And that isn’t just for this season, but next year and beyond as well.

The Raiders should have never hired Carroll. The assumption is that he would help reset the team’s culture, and that might have been the case if the head coach were not already closer to the end of his career than the middle of it, and culture resets can take years.

Few could have seen just how bad the season would have gone for Vegas, though. The Raiders are 2-13 heading into Week 17, and not competitive in many of those games. For any coach (one as historically great as Carroll or a much younger one) to survive that mess would have been difficult.

New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson

It only took Wilson four seasons to go from potential Pro Football Hall of Famer to third-string quarterback with a bad Giants team. One can rightly wonder how things might have gone for the quarterback had he not gone to Seahawks management to try to have Carroll and general manager John Schneider fired.

Instead, he flamed out with the Denver Broncos after two seasons, the Pittsburgh Steelers after one, and the New York Giants after basically three games. The quarterback isn’t signed after this year, and there might be only a few teams that would think twice about signing the 37-year-old QB. There might also be no teams that want to sign him.

Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Geno Smith

Pete Carroll eventually brought a number of former Seattle Seahawks players with him to Las Vegas. The coach values loyalty and likes to have players he feels understand his culture around him. Most coaches like that as well, but Carroll appears to require that, and it costs him.

Smith was good for Seattle in 2022, his first season as QB1 for the Seahawks, and solid in 2023. In 2024, he threw far too many interceptions, and his volatile personality never a good mesh with head coach Mike Macdonald. Smith’s days were almost certainly numbered from the time Macdonald was hired.

Even with poor blocking in front of him, though, Smith has been awful this season. He has tossed 18 touchdown passes, but thrown 15 interceptions, too. His quarterback rating is a terrible 85.7. The Raiders hold a top-five draft pick in 2026, and releasing Smith (Vegas can do that and save $8 million) and making room for a rookie QB would make sense.

Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Tyler Lockett

Like Carroll, Lockett deserves better than to have the end of his career come with a thud. He is absolutely one of the best human beings in NFL history, and certainly one of the best receivers in Seahawks history. He has been a diminished player for two seasons now, though.

After being released this past offseason by Seattle, he signed with the Tennessee Titans. He wasn’t productive and asked for his release, and he rejoined his former head coach in Vegas. Lockett saw an uptick in his production in three of his first four games with the Raiders, but in Weeks 15 and 16 combined, he had just three catches and 16 yards receiving. He hasn’t scored at all this season.

The hope is that Lockett returns to the Seahawks and signs a one-day deal to retire with Seattle. He has earned that.

Washington Commanders linebacker Bobby Wagner

Wagner is still a productive player at age 35, and he should absolutely be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, but the Commanders have had a disappointing season and have younger linebackers ready to prove themselves without Wagner. One is Frankie Luvu and the other is Jordan Magee.

While Wagner can still be a punishing and effective tackler, he is terrible in coverage in Washington’s defensive scheme. While that has always been the weakest part of the linebacker’s incredible game, he has been more exposed in 2025.

If Bobby Wagner wants to keep playing, some team would likely offer him a deal worthy of him sticking around. That wouldn’t be with the Seahawks, though. Wagner’s skill set does not fit in Mike Macdonald’s system.