{"id":119794,"date":"2025-06-10T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119794\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:34:13","slug":"first-look-at-cooper-kupp-in-a-seahawks-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119794\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Cooper Kupp in a Seahawks uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a graduate of Eastern Washington University who got to see Cooper Kupp play college football at the same time I was a student in Cheney, I will fully admit my bias is on display when I say Kupp is arguably the most exciting acquisition the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> made in free agency. However, I do not believe I am alone when it comes to this level of excitement. It does not matter if you&#8217;re an Eagle, a Husky, a Cougar or Wildcat, seeing one of the greatest football players the state of Washington return &#8220;home&#8221; to play for Seattle is something 12&#8217;s across the Pacific Northwest can truly rejoice with.<\/p>\n<p>Week 1 of the regular season is still several months away, but fans got their first glimpse of Kupp in a Seahawks uniform during Seattle&#8217;s media day. I must say, I agree with the team&#8217;s official Twitter account by stating the College Navy and Action Green of the Seahawks&#8217; home uniform looks great on the MVP of Super Bowl LVI.<\/p>\n<p>Kupp signed a three-year deal this offseason worth up to <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/03\/26\/details-emerge-about-seahawks-wide-receiver-cooper-kupps-contract\/82672402007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$45 million dollars<\/a>. Health and durability have become considerable concerns for the former receiving Triple Crown winner, but when he&#8217;s on the field he is still as productive as ever. In 12 games for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rams<\/a> in 2024, Kupp still managed to haul in 67 receptions for 710 yards and six touchdowns. If he can find a way to replicating that kind of output in 2025 it will be a tremendous success for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks will begin the 2025 campaign at home against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a graduate of Eastern Washington University who got to see Cooper Kupp play college football at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[220,247,265,240,318,339,1060,1081,7,219,1061,239,58,88,6,245,537,530,424,218,252,238,237,261,2635,9,266,10374],"class_list":{"0":"post-119794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-college","13":"tag-college-sports","14":"tag-cooper","15":"tag-cooper-kupp","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-francisco","18":"tag-kupp","19":"tag-los","20":"tag-los-angeles-rams","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-rams","27":"tag-san","28":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","29":"tag-seahawks","30":"tag-seattle","31":"tag-seattle-seahawks","32":"tag-seattleseahawks","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-wa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114661455627895891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}