Seahawks Reminisce On Season During Locker Room Clean Out Day

The Seahawks were back in Renton after their Super Bowl LX win, to clean their lockers, exchange autographs, and reflect on the season they just finished on Sunday.

Feb 10, 2026 at 04:33 PM

Ari Horton

Seahawks.com Writer

The Seahawks cleaned out the locker room following the end of the 2026 and brought out the championship belt to celebrate their Super Bowl LX victory.

Players were scattered around the Seahawks' locker room on Tuesday morning, with empty boxes of various sizes. There was no music blasting because they weren't getting ready for practice, but instead getting ready for one of their final team meetings as this version of the Seahawks. Some of them were relaxing on the couches that now sit in the middle of the locker room, which were previously occupied by oversized recliners. Those recliners were shipped down to the team hotel in San Jose last week ahead of Super Bowl LX to create as much of a "home" feel as possible. Some of the players were emptying out their lockers full of old cleats and gloves, tossing them into large boxes labeled "cleat donation" and "glove donation." Some lucky high schools in the area will receive those donations for their football programs. Then there were some players who were somewhere in between cleaning out their lockers and reminiscing on the season. Defensive tackle Leonard Williams showed off jerseys he was gifted throughout the season through jersey swaps. His collections included Panthers Derrick Brown, Colts DeForest Buckner, Rams Kobie Turner, Jaguars Erik Armstead, Saints Cam Jordan, 49ers Trent Williams, and Cardinals Calais Campbell.

"The man, the myth, the legend," Williams said about Campbell. "Been playing for a long time. Looked up to his game for a long time. Hopefully I can play as long as him. I don't know if I want to or not. A legend right here."

Linebacker Ernest Jones IV had an assortment of game balls wrapped in plastic that littered the floor around his locker.

"Defensive player of the game for this one," Jones said as he pointed to a game ball with his name on it, from the Seahawks 41-6 divisional round win over the 49ers. Jones pointed to a couple more game balls he received. One of them was for a Defensive Player of the Game in the Week 13, 26-0 win over the Vikings. And in Week 18, there was a game ball that was given to the entire team for setting the single-season record for wins (14). Jones was also holding a ball that he was given by head coach Mike Macdonald for a game where he had an interception. He couldn't remember which game, though. Jones had five interceptions during the regular season and one in the playoffs.

All Jones knows is that it was "One of these guys' favorite quarterbacks out there."

This season, Jones picked off Brock Purdy twice, Kyler Murray, C.J. Stroud, and Max Brosmer twice.

Halfway across the other side of the locker room, Uchenna Nwosu, holding his pick-six ball, stood surrounded by reporters and cameras in what looked like a postgame media scrum.

As he was fielding questions, Williams walked by, heading to the equipment room, and yelled, "Sleep with it, sleep with it. Go to sleep with it."

Nwosu said, "This ain't never leaving my side."

There were also duos of players around the locker room shadow boxing, something that is of the norm for them. A game between linebacker Derick Hall and nose tackle Jarran Reed broke out in the locker room following the Super Bowl win, which paints the picture of how a game can really happen anywhere. Receiver Jake Bobo, in his Duke hoodie, walked past one of the duos and mocked them.

A few steps outside of the locker room, on the equipment room counter, were jerseys set up for players to sign, somewhat like how you'd sign a classmate's yearbook at the end of the school year, marking the closing of one chapter. This was a chapter that ended in a goal that everyone knew and felt was possible from the very beginning.

"It's hard to kind of take it all in without getting emotional about my dad," Jones said. "But once I kind of break through those barriers, I'm just in shock, and, oh, man, I knew all along this could be a result of coming here and being a part of this team. To see it happening now, to see these guys, champions, it's everything."

Now the very interconnected, defensively dominant, and Super Bowl winning Seahawks will celebrate one final time as an entire team on Wednesday as the city of Seattle waits for them in the streets of downtown for their parade.

"We'll have some great times tomorrow," Jones said with a smile.