Context to Seahawks listing Tyler Lockett, Jamal Adams ‘questionable’ to play Browns
Officially, Tyler Lockett and Jamal Adams are questionable.
Yet to them and their coach, there is no question they are playing.
Lockett, the leading wide receiver, and Adams, the three-time Pro Bowl safety, will start Sunday when the Seahawks (4-2) host the Cleveland Browns (4-2) at Lumen Field (Sunday, 1:05 p.m., channel 13).
Adams said that. So did coach Pete Carroll, following Adams and Lockett being full go Friday.
“Both those guys practiced today,” Carroll said.
When asked if that meant both will play Sunday the coach said “yes.”
Lockett was catching passes and fully participating with teammates.
Captain Bobby Wagner, Lockett and lead running back Kenneth Walker were full participants in practice Friday. The three starters had missed practice Thursday, Wagner for a newly listed ankle issue, Lockett because of a sore hamstring he’s had for weeks and Walker with a sore calf.
Walker was dancing to Outkast’s music blaring from the sideline speakers as practice began.
Adams missed practices Wednesday and Thursday. The team’s listed reasons for Adams had been “not injury related-resting player/knee.”
In fact, they were days off Adams took as part of his ongoing, expected recovery from the torn quadriceps tendon that sidelined him for 13 months. He made his 2023 season debut Oct. 2 at the New York Giants.
But him missing practices led to him going onto the injury report for the Browns game Sunday.
DK Metcalf has no injury designation. He has been full go at practice all week. He missed a game for the first time in his five-year NFL career last weekend, against Arizona. He is coming off a hip injury.
The team declared rookie running back Kenny McIntosh and nose tackle Austin Faoliu out for Sunday’s game. That means they will remain in a 21-day window to practice after the Seahawks designated them returning to practice this week. from injured reserve and the physically-unable-to-perform-list, respectively.
Blocking Myles Garrett
Starting center Evan Brown was full go. He missed Seattle’s win over Arizona last week with a hip injury.
Yet the Seahawks’ starting offensive line will still not be intact for Sunday against the Browns’ top-ranked defense. Seattle’s O-line hasn’t been whole since its opener Sept. 10.
Right tackle Abe Lucas remains on injured reserve with a knee injury. Stone Forsythe is on track to start for Lucas for the second consecutive game.
Rookie Anthony Bradford is likely to start again at right guard, because Phil Haynes has missed another week of practices with an injured calf.
Carroll and offensive coordinator Shane Waldron said this week 41-year-old former All-Pro Jason Peters is physically ready to make his Seattle debut. He signed with the practice squad six weeks ago and has been working into playing shape.
Carroll said this week Peters was practicing to play.
Peters, a nine-time Pro Bowl left tackle and former Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles, was practicing at guard the week of the Seahawks’ game at Cincinnati Oct. 15. He may have played in that game had he not strained a quadriceps in practices then.
The team would need to elevate Peters from the practice squad Saturday for him to be available to play Sunday, apparently in a backup role at tackle and guard.
Left tackle Charles Cross will make his third start since returning from missing weeks two through four with an injured big toe. Cross will likely be the Seahawks blocker dealing most with elite Browns pass rusher Myles Garrett.
Garrett has 7 1/2 sacks in six games. That includes starts with with 3 1/2, and two last week at the Colts.
He lined up at right defensive end, the spot opposite Cross at Seahawks left tackle, on 84% of his snaps at Indianapolis last week.
Dee Eskridge’s situation
The Seahawks have a roster exemption on Dee Eskridge coming off his six-game NFL suspension. The exemption expires Saturday.
That means the team will have to make a corresponding move of someone off the 53-man active roster if it adds Eskridge. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be ready physically to play Sunday. He could be one of Seattle’s inactive players.
This story was originally published October 27, 2023 at 1:34 PM.
