The Los Angeles Rams' blockbuster trade for Myles Garrett — which sent Jared Verse to Los Angeles in return — met with a muted reaction from Seattle Seahawks supporters in a rapid fan poll published this year.
SB Nation Reacts ran a survey of Seahawks fans shortly after the move. The clear result: a majority of Seahawks respondents said the Garrett deal did not change their view of Seattle's odds of returning to the Super Bowl. Only three percent of those polled said their confidence had increased.
At the same time, the national snapshot tilted decisively toward Los Angeles: 59 percent of respondents in the broader poll picked the Rams as Super Bowl favorites after the trade. That contrast — local steadiness and national recalibration — is the sharpest single takeaway from the response data.
Field Gulls published the Seahawks reaction survey in 2026, capturing sentiment in the hours after the Rams completed the deal. The trade is plainly altering the perceived balance of the NFC West, and that shift is what prompted the quick turnaround survey of Seattle fans: how much, if at all, does adding Garrett change the division and title math?
The friction here is small but real. While most Seattle fans were not moved, a noticeable minority reported that their confidence in a Seahawks Super Bowl return took a hit after the Rams' acquisition. The poll does not quantify that subgroup beyond noting its existence, but the split underlines a momentary tremor inside a fanbase that has occupied the NFC's high ground in recent seasons.
Numbers matter: a majority of Seahawks fans holding steady matters to narratives inside the region. The national majority viewing the Rams as favorites matters to betting lines, media coverage and outsiders’ expectations. Both reactions can coexist — local loyalty and national reassessment — and the survey captured both in the same snapshot.
The poll leaves a practical gap: it does not report any planned moves by the Seahawks in response to Los Angeles’ upgrade. That is the next question fans and analysts will press. Reacts polling is expected to ramp up again closer to training camp, which means sentiment will get refreshed as rosters firm and preseason play unfolds.
For now, the clearest conclusion is procedural rather than strategic: Seattle Seahawks fans mostly shrugged. The single most consequential unanswered question is whether the club will answer that shrug with action — adjustments to the roster or coaching plans that acknowledge the Rams’ new weapon — before training camp reshapes expectations again.
