The Seattle Seahawks ended the 2025 regular season with a seven-game winning streak and won three playoff contests en route to the second Super Bowl championship in franchise history. They hope to pick up right where they left off in Wednesday's rematch of that title game. Get up to $1,500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses at BetMGM with promo code CBSSPORTS when wagering on Wednesday's biggest games: Seattle begins the defense of its crown when it hosts the New England Patriots at 8:20 p.m.
ET in the 2026 NFL Kickoff Game at Lumen Field. The Seahawks set the club record with 14 wins last year and knocked off the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams in the postseason before cruising past the Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX. New England and Seattle were two of the highest-scoring teams in the NFL last season, as the former ranked second with a 28.8-point average and the latter was third at 28.4.
Both clubs were in the top 10 in rushing, but the ground attacks will have a different look in the 2026 opener. Rhamondre Stevenson will be the feature running back for the Patriots as the team's 2025 rushing leader TreVeyon Henderson is out with an injured ankle. Meanwhile, rookie Jadarian Price should have a heavy workload due to the offseason departure of Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet's knee injury.
New England (fourth, 250.5 yards per game) and Seattle (eighth, 228.1) also ranked in top 10 in passing last year and should be dangerous through the air again. The Patriots added wide receiver A.J. Brown, who has eclipsed the 1,000-yard plateau in six of his seven NFL seasons, and the Seahawks possess the duo of Jaxon Smith-Njigba (league-leading 1,793 receiving yards in 2025) and Cooper Kupp.
A total of 10 games are on MLB's Wednesday evening schedule, including the finale of the three-game series at American Family Field between the major league-best Milwaukee Brewers (90-56) and National League Central-rival Chicago Cubs (81-65) at 7:40 p.m. The Brewers, who are nine games ahead of the Cubs in the division, are looking to complete a sweep and finish at 9-4 in the season series. Chicago has lost three straight overall and is just three games in front of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the second NL wild card.
Bet on the NFL Kickoff Game and Wednesday's MLB games with the FanDuel promo code and get up to $350 in bonus bets when you bet $5 for seven days: Another team seeking a three-game sweep is the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers (88-57), who aim for their season-high seventh consecutive victory when they face the Cincinnati Reds (69-76) at 10:10 p.m. The Dodgers edged the Reds 3-2 on Tuesday to maintain their 10.5-game lead over the Diamondbacks in the NL West and move three ahead of the Atlanta Braves for the No. 2 seed in the senior circuit. One day after having their five-game winning streak halted, the Boston Red Sox (80-66) attempt to take the rubber game of their three-game series against the major league-worst Los Angeles Angels (55-90) at 6:45 p.m.
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