Defensive End · Seattle Seahawks

Leonard Williams

No. 99 · 12th season

Defending champions. Not the favorite. Williams says the Seahawks are fine with that.

There is a version of this that would sting. You win the whole thing, and the oddsmakers still don't believe in you the following year — not to win your own division, not to go back. For a lot of teams, that would be a quiet wound.

The Seattle Seahawks don't seem to see it that way. Leonard Williams, one of the anchors of a defense that helped bring a championship to Seattle, said recently that the lack of outside belief isn't sitting heavy in that locker room. It's doing the opposite.

That is a specific kind of team culture — the kind where a slight lands as fuel rather than doubt. The Seahawks have the banner. They also have something to prove, apparently, even to themselves.

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