{"id":846041,"date":"2026-04-01T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/846041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:58:16","slug":"seahawks-2026-kickoff-opponent-patrick-mahomes-chiefs-not-expected-to-face-seattle-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/846041\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks 2026 kickoff opponent: Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs not expected to face Seattle in Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">We\u2019re less than two months away from finding out the Seattle Seahawks\u2019 2026 schedule, and it\u2019s more likely than not we\u2019ll know their Week 1 opponent well before the rest of their season. One team that is seemingly not in the running for Sept. 9 at Lumen Field is the dynastic Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Had Patrick Mahomes not torn his ACL last December, the Chiefs would\u2019ve looked like a prime opening night candidate as the NFL\u2019s longtime powerhouse going up against the reigning Super Bowl champions. However, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt looks to have poured cold water over the Chiefs-Seahawks as the NFL\u2019s curtain raiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-free-agency\/164188\/seahawks-free-agency-2026-super-bowl-mvp-kenneth-walker-kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:While Seahawks Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;While Seahawks Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker&quot;}\" class=\"link \">While Seahawks Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker<\/a> is the high profile addition to the Chiefs offense, his return to Seattle probably isn\u2019t a good enough selling point when Justin Fields would be the presumptive starting quarterback in Mahomes\u2019 absence. The Chiefs saw their run of three straight Super Bowl appearances (including two wins, one of which came over the San Francisco 49ers, who haven\u2019t won it all since 1995) come to a crashing halt with a 6-11 record. Injuries were a definite factor but their performances even prior to Mahomes\u2019 injury indicated missing the postseason was an inevitable outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With the 49ers and Los Angeles Rams set to play in Australia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48348153\/kyle-shanahan-says-niners-get-no-benefit-australia-trip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:much to the protestations of Kyle Shanahan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;much to the protestations of Kyle Shanahan&quot;}\" class=\"link \">much to the protestations of Kyle Shanahan<\/a>) and the Chiefs seemingly not an option, the Seahawks\u2019 opening night foes will be one of the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Arizona Cardinals (let\u2019s be real, it won\u2019t be them)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We\u2019ll just have to sit tight and find out who will be the Seahawks\u2019 opposition on banner raising night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re less than two months away from finding out the Seattle Seahawks\u2019 2026 schedule, and it\u2019s more likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[220,390,391,346,16628,257,7,11729,493,118,110,2438,2437,9294,262,58,27530,249,56,6,499,237,261,855],"class_list":["post-846041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-49ers","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chiefs","tag-clark-hunt","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-football","tag-jake-bobo","tag-justin-fields","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-kenneth-walker","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nazeeh-johnson","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116326741132469814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846041","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=846041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}