Coming off their 30-13 win over the St. Louis Rams on Monday Night Football the Seahawks are a weighted down with injuries heading into their week 14 match up against Chicago. Already without 60 percent of their starting offensive line left guard Robert Gallery sat out practice Wednesday with a hip injury.
Here are some more news and notes on the Seattle Seahawks for Wednesday, December 14th:
Richardo Lockette Promoted:
The Seahawks promoted rookie wide receiver to the active 53-man roster Wednesday from the practice squad. Lockette, an undrafted rookie out of fort Valley State was released on September 3rd but re-signed to the practice squad the next day.
Lockette, a track star at the Division II level is arguably the fastest wide receiver the Seahawks have now on their active roster. Whether or not Lockette will make an impact or even see the field is to be determined but he’s slowly made the progression from rookie to practice squad to the active roster.
Robert Gallery, Doug Baldwin, Raheem Brock and David Hawthorne sit out practice:
Much like Chicago the Seahawks injury report is littered with players week in and week out. Russell Okung (left tackle), John Moffitt (right guard) and James Carpenter (right tackle) are all out for the season. Today Robert Gallery (left guard) sat out practice with a hip injury not thought to be serious.
Doug Baldwin (wide receiver) is out with an ankle injury, Raheem Brock (defensive end) is out with a calf injury and David Hawthorne (middle linebacker) is out with a knee injury.
None of the injuries are season threatening however Pete Carroll didn’t comment on their availability for Sunday.
Pete Carroll: “I don’t know if there’s anything worse than a Bear with a bad tooth.”
The quote of the day comes from Pete Carroll when he talked about the Bears injury situation. The quote above is pertaining to Carroll being caustics about facing a Bears team with a sour taste in their mouth and without Jay Cutler and possibly Matt Forte.
Chicago Bears injury report:
Did not practice: QB–Jay Cutler (thumb), RB–Matt Forte (knee),DT–Henry Melton (shin), CB–Charles Tillman (knee) and LB–Lance Briggs (non-injury related).
Limited: S–Major Wright (shoulder) and G–Edwin Williams (calf).
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