RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks will get safety Julian Love and defensive tackle Jarran Reed back for their Week 14 game against the Atlanta Falcons, with both starters in line to return off injured reserve.<\/p>\n
Reed has missed the last four games following a second surgery to repair a fracture in his right hand. Love missed nine of the past 10 games with a hamstring injury, and while it sounds like he may not play every down Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, that will mark the first time all season that Seattle\u2019s defense will have its preferred starting 11 available.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks (9-3) are relatively healthy as a team, as only two players — wide receiver Dareke Young and defensive lineman Rylie Mills, both ruled out — have game designations.<\/p>\n
Reed was a full participant in practice all week. Love progressed to a full participant Friday after two limited practices.<\/p>\n
\u201cJ-Reed should be good to go, which is exciting,\u201d coach Mike Macdonald said Friday. \u201cJulian is planning on playing and we\u2019re going to play it accordingly. We have a plan and we\u2019ll see how the game goes, but we\u2019re excited to have those guys back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Macdonald declined to elaborate when asked if Love may be on a pitch count or part of a rotation. Love, a 2023 Pro Bowl selection, hurt his hamstring in Week 2 while playing through a groin injury, missed the following game then re-injured his hamstring when he returned in Week 4. He was on track to get back for the Seahawks\u2019 post-bye game against the Washington Commanders in Week 9, but he suffered a setback in practice in Week 7.<\/p>\n
Having never missed a game due to injury in high school, college or the NFL, Love called that setback \u201ca killer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bye week\u2019s supposed to be a week of relaxation, de-stressing, and that was not the case for me,\u201d he said Thursday. \u201cI was pretty fired up. It was unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Seahawks\u2019 defense has allowed 17 points per game this season — third-fewest in the NFL — despite a number of injury absences. Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon (knee) missed five games. Reed spent four games on IR. Rookie nickelback Nick Emmanwori (ankle), Seattle\u2019s second-round pick, missed three games and most of a fourth. Middle linebacker Ernest Jones IV (knee) missed two games, as did rotational outside linebacker Derick Hall (oblique).<\/p>\n
Love is back after being sidelined for over two months. On the same day he returned to practice, the Seahawks informed him that he\u2019s the team\u2019s nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fitting after all he\u2019s gone through, and all the stuff he\u2019s a part of in the community is incredible,\u201d Macdonald said. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously a great human being, he\u2019s a great dad, and he\u2019s a great football player. We\u2019re proud to have him be our nominee. We\u2019ve got a lot of guys that are deserving, but I\u2019m really glad that J-Love is our guy this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks will get safety Julian Love and defensive tackle Jarran Reed back for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,144856,144855,514,75841,82],"class_list":["post-328046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jarran-reed-sports-football-player-player-statscom-824539","tag-julian-love-sports-football-player-player-statscom-946103","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-sports-football-team-team-statscom-361","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}