Seattle X-Factors: Who Could Help with Dream Super Bowl Run? - Locked On Seahawks Podcast

Reaching the Super Bowl requires good fortune, including game-changing talents rising to the occasion to lift teams over the hump to make the big game. Who fits the bill for the Seattle Seahawks entering the 2023 season?

Corbin K. Smith | Jun 17, 2023

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Coming off a Wild Card berth and brief playoff appearance, the Seattle Seahawks have their sights set on bigger goals this upcoming season, including making a deep postseason run. Which X-factors will be most crucial to the team's chances of making a run to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas?

Hosts Corbin Smith and Nick Lee discuss several candidates who fit the bill as game-changers determining Seattle's ceiling in 2023, including a star returning from injury on the defensive side of the ball.

Smith and Lee also revisit Uchenna Nwosu's breakthrough 2022 season, project what's next for the veteran pass rusher in the final year of his contract, and play "This or That" debating which individual and team statistical anomalies are most likely to happen for the Seahawks next season.

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Published Jun 17, 2023

CORBIN K. SMITH

Graduating from Manchester College in 2012, Smith began his professional career as a high school Economics teacher in Indianapolis and launched his own NFL website covering the Seahawks as a hobby. After teaching and coaching high school football for five years, he transitioned to a full-time sports reporter in 2017, writing for USA Today's Seahawks Wire while continuing to produce the Legion of 12 podcast. He joined the Arena Group in August 2018 and also currently hosts the daily Locked On Seahawks podcast with Rob Rang and Nick Lee. Away from his coverage of the Seahawks and the NFL, Smith dabbles in standup comedy, is a heavy metal enthusiast and previously performed as lead vocalist for a metal band, and enjoys distance running and weight lifting. A habitual commuter, he resides with his wife Natalia in Colorado and spends extensive time reporting from his second residence in the Pacific Northwest.