The Seattle Seahawks injury concerns started days before the team’s Week-3 contest against the Dallas Cowboys, a game that saw numerous players leave the matchup and not return.
“Unfortunately, even before the game happened, Quinton Dunbar’s knee acted up and he wasn’t able to go,” coach Pete Carroll said in his post-game press conference. “Neiko’s hip didn’t make it through the week, and he couldn’t go. Lano Hill, his back situation, it just showed up yesterday. We weren’t sure what was going on with that one, but he couldn’t go either. All those guys fell out before we even started the game. We were scrambling to get our guys up on the roster.”
As far as in-game injuries, Carroll was able to provide updates on those as well.
Guard Damien Lewis suffered an ankle sprain and safety Jamal Adams a groin strain.
Four players suffered knee injuries, which is concerning, although the exact nature of each has yet to be determined.
“Chris [Carson] got his knee twisted at the end of a play. I don’t know about that, but he has a sprained knee to some extent,” Carroll continued. “Jordyn Brooks had a knee sprain, also, earlier in the game. Guys rolled up on him. [Ethan] Pocic had a knee issue that he finished the game with. I don’t know how he did that, but he did. Mike Iupati had a knee situation also that he finished the game with.”
Seattle, like so many teams around the league, is seeing an enormous amount of injuries so early in the season. Carroll said they are just trying to make sense of it all.
“That’s a lot of stuff,” Carroll said. “We’re not used to seeing all those names coming out of one game. It’s hard to say. For everybody talking
about the injuries and all that, you would think it would be muscles and strains and that kind of stuff would be more of what you’d be seeing, but we’re seeing a different variety of things.”
Fortunately for the players, they have a couple of rest days to recover before returning to the practice field on Wednesday.
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