Sao Viet

The Patriots will make their first-ever appearance on Hard Knocks at their 2027 preseason training camp.

—

by

Binh
in

Seahawks to feature on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks,’ Patriots slated for 2027

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will be among the players featured on Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will be among the players featured on Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

– The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks will be featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks, HBO and NFL Films announced Tuesday.

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks will debut at 9 p.m. EDT Aug. 11. Additional episodes will premiere every Tuesday through Sept. 8.

HBO and NFL Films also announced that the New England Patriots, who lost to the Seahawks in Super Bowl LX, will be featured on Hard Knocks in 2027.

The Seahawks will be the first Super Bowl champions featured on the show since the Baltimore Ravens in 2001. HBO said its all-access coverage from Seahawks training camp in Renton, Wash. will feature coach Mike MacDonald, quarterback Sam Darnold, wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba and defenders Devon Witherspoon and Byron Murphy II, among others.

Actor Liev Schreiber will return as narrator for Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks. The Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Chargers were among the teams recently featured in the series.

Head coach Mike Macdonald's Seattle Seahawks will be the first Super Bowl champions featured on HBO's Hard Knocks since 2001. File Photo by David Tulis/UPI
Head coach Mike Macdonald’s Seattle Seahawks will be the first Super Bowl champions featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks since 2001. File Photo by David Tulis/UPI

The NFL announced Wednesday that the Seahawks will open the 2026 regular-season with a Wednesday, Sept. 9 matchup in Seattle. The Seahawks’ opponent for the 8:20 p.m. EDT meeting at Lumen Field will be announced later this spring. The game will air on NBC and Peacock.

Wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba will be among the Seattle Seahawks stars featured this summer on HBO's Hard Knocks. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI.
Wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba will be among the Seattle Seahawks stars featured this summer on HBO’s Hard Knocks. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI.

Seahawks, Patriots will serve as next two Hard Knocks teams

Video Player Cover

The NFL has picked the 2026 Hard Knocks team. It also has picked the 2027 Hard Knocks team.

For the first time ever, the NFL has announced the subjects of the long-running HBO docuseries for the next two installments. Via Adam Schefter of ESPN, it will be the Seahawks in 2026 and the Patriots in 2027.

Neither team has ever served as the subject of the show. And both, obviously, made it to Super Bowl LX.

Once upon a time, the NFL exempted from Hard Knocks consideration any team that had made it to the playoffs within the past two seasons. That factor is obviously now long gone.

The NFL also started in-season Hard Knocks several years ago. In recent seasons, it has focused on an entire division. Presumably, the 2026 installment won’t focus on the NFC West — and the 2027 version won’t center on the AFC East.

The league had a one-year run of offseason Hard Knocks. It was so revealing (in a bad way) for the Giants that the experiment ended after one year.