Abraham Lucas Earned It: Seahawks Veteran RT Wins Comeback Player of the Year After Brutal Injury Comeback

The Seahawks just won the Super Bowl. Yeah, that happened. And it wasn't supposed to. Everyone counted them out before the season started, wrote them off as pretenders, and then they went out and shocked the entire league. Now they're heading into 2026 as the favorite to repeat. That's the vibe in Seattle right now.

But before we look ahead, let's talk about one of the guys who made that run possible: Abraham Lucas, the right tackle who just won the team's Comeback Player of the Year award, and honestly, he earned every bit of it.

Two Years of Pain, One Year of Redemption

Lucas had it rough from 2023 into 2024. We're talking brutal here. He played in just 13 of 34 games over those two seasons because of a significant knee injury that forced him to have surgery before the 2024 campaign. When the season started, he was out for the first nine games. When he finally got back, he appeared in seven of the final eight games, but the questions were real: would he ever be the same player?

The Seahawks believed. They signed him to a three-year, $46 million extension that keeps him locked in through 2028. That's the kind of vote of confidence that either looks brilliant or disastrous. In 2025, it looked brilliant.

A Full Season, Protecting Darnold, Protecting the Championship

The 2022 third-round pick came back in 2025 and did something that seemed impossible after those injury-plagued years: he started all 17 games of the regular season. Then he held strong through the entire three-game playoff run on the way to the Super Bowl. He lined up on Sam Darnold's right side and played every snap that mattered, 1,061 total snaps at 100 percent availability.

That's durability. That's reliability. That's exactly what the Seahawks needed from their right tackle, and that's exactly what Lucas delivered. After all the doubt, after all the surgery, after all those games sitting out, he proved he could get back to form and stay healthy. The work he put in to get back on the field was massive, and it showed up when it counted most.

Uchenna Nwosu got honorable mention after his own comeback, appearing in 16 games (11 starts) with 35 tackles, seven tackles for loss, three pass deflections and 7.0 sacks. But Lucas? Lucas was the full-time guy holding down the right side of a Super Bowl winning offense.

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