The Seahawks could part with nine regulars in the offseason, but Richard Sherman says he expects to be in the middle of the Super Bowl hunt in 2016.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Richard Sherman probably wouldn’t have been expected to say anything else.
But in the haze of a postgame locker room while trying to make sense of Sunday’s 31-24 divisional playoff loss to Carolina, the Seahawks cornerback said there was one thing he knew — that the Seahawks will be right back in the middle of the Super Bowl hunt in 2016.
“One hundred percent,’’ he said when asked if the thinks the Seahawks are still a team on the rise.