The Seattle Seahawks were forced to go deep into their secondary\u2019s depth in their stunning win over the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday.<\/p>\n
With injuries to Nick Emmanwori, Coby Bryant and Riq Woolen, Seattle leaned on key depth pieces like safety Ty Okada and cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett late in the game. However, early reports suggest the Seahawks avoided a worst-case scenario of all three missing time.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported on Friday that only Bryant is expected to miss \u201csome time\u201d due to a knee injury. While it\u2019s a significant blow to the secondary, which Bryant has anchored, Okada was excellent in relief of Julian Love during the first half of the season.<\/p>\n
Fowler also reported Woolen\u2019s knee injury, which kept him out of the second half on Thursday, is \u201cnot considered serious,\u201d echoing Woolen\u2019s sentiment postgame.<\/p>\n
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said post-game that Bryant\u2019s injury wasn\u2019t \u201cautomatically season-ending,\u201d but did not put a timeframe on his return. On Friday, he told reporters that both Woolen and Bryant were getting imaging done that morning, which should provide more clarity moving forward.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks should be able to keep rookie standout safety Nick Emmanwori on the field after he cleared concussion protocol toward the end of the Rams game. Macdonald suggested post-game that if the Seahawks\u2019 defense went back on the field in overtime, Emmanwori would have been out there.<\/p>\n
Emmanwori has come alive in the second half of the season, totaling 11 tackles against the Rams before leaving. If he needs more time to recover, the Seahawks only have one backup safety, Okada, on the active roster. Seattle\u2019s other two backup safeties, D\u2019Anthony Bell and Quandre Diggs, are both on the practice squad.<\/p>\n
Luckily for the Seahawks, they\u2019ll get a couple of extra days of rest following their Thursday night thriller, as they turn their attention to winning out and locking up the No. 1 seed in the NFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks were forced to go deep into their secondary\u2019s depth in their stunning win over the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":459285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,131913,4840,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-459284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-seattle-seahawks-injuries","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115750054368240885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}