It may be the biggest holiday of the year, but the Seattle Seahawks are still on a short week. On Thursday night they’ll be visiting the Chicago Bears in their second appearance on Thursday Night Football of the season, which is just wonderful. Injuries are always a problem this time of season, but on a short week it’s a heightened concern.
The Seahawks were relatively healthy going into Sunday’s excruciating yet also encouraging but also maddening loss to the Minnesota Vikings – and they came out relatively unscathed – with one big exception. In the fourth quarter starting running back Ken Walker left the game with an ankle injury and was listed as doubtful to return.
After the game head coach Mike Macdonald didn’t have much to say about Walker’s ankle. Now, we have our first unofficial status update for Walker. As today’s practice was a walk-through the team’s injury report for Monday is only an estimation, but here’s what we know about Walker and a few other key injuries going into Week 17.
RB Ken Walker
Walker was one of five players listed as non-participants for today’s practice. That doesn’t give us much to go on and Seattle will only have one real practice this week, so whatever his status is tomorrow is probably our best indicator for if he’ll play or not. In any case, the Seahawks aren’t really bothering to run the ball anymore, anyway. In Sunday’s loss offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb had barely called any designed runs going into the fourth. For what it’s worth, Kenny McIntosh did look good in the limited action he got at the end of the game, totaling 29 yards from scrimmage on four touches. Maybe McIntosh will get the ball instead of Zach Charbonnet this week.
Abe Lucas, Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones
Tight end Brady Russell was the only other player who was listed as a DNP due to an actual injury. The rest, consisting of right tackle Abe Lucas, defensive end Leonard Williams and middle linebacker Ernest Jones were estimated as rest days. Lucas is still apparently getting pain in his right knee, Williams has a lingering foot thing and Jones has a knee issue. None are serious except for the long-term Lucas concern.
Five players were listed as limited, including running back Zach Charbonnet (elbow), tight end Noah Fant (knee), outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu (wrist), center Olu Oluwatimi (knee) and edge rusher Derick Hall (shoulder).
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