{"id":33241,"date":"2025-07-24T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33241\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:00:08","slug":"seahawks-say-lb-uchenna-nwosu-not-necessarily-close-to-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33241\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks say LB Uchenna Nwosu ‘not necessarily close’ to returning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brady HendersonJul 23, 2025, 07:56 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the Seattle Seahawks for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2017 after covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM.<\/p>\n

RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks<\/a> began training camp Wednesday without any holdouts or contract-related drama, but they are dealing with uncertainty regarding the availability of one of their best defensive players.<\/p>\n

Coach Mike Macdonald told reporters after the first practice that outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu<\/a> isn’t expected to be ready to practice anytime soon. Nwosu began camp on the physically unable to perform list as he works his way back from offseason knee surgery.<\/p>\n

When asked how close Nwosu is to being ready, Macdonald implied that he may be sidelined through Week 1.<\/p>\n

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“We’ll see,” Macdonald said. “We’re going into the season probably throughout the rest of camp and then we’ll go from there, but I think we’ll hold onto the timeline right now. But we’re not necessarily close right now.”<\/p>\n

Nwosu, 28, has been plagued by injuries — a torn pectoral in 2023 as well as an MCL sprain and a severe quad strain in 2024 — that have limited him to six games in each of the past two seasons. That was after he posted a career-high 9.5 sacks in 2022, the year he arrived in Seattle as a free agent addition from the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nwosu had knee surgery shortly after last season ended, and the team has been consistently noncommittal since then on when he’ll be ready to play. He agreed to a reworked deal early in the offseason that lowered his 2025 compensation by nearly $7 million.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks signed longtime Dallas Cowboys<\/a> defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence<\/a> in March, and they are believed to still be in the market for an edge defender with Nwosu’s availability for the start of the season in question.<\/p>\n

Macdonald also revealed Wednesday that veteran nose tackle Johnathan Hankins<\/a> is starting camp on the non-football injury list as he deals with a back issue.<\/p>\n

“Long term, I think he’s going to be fine,” Macdonald said, “but he’s working through it. Hank’s a vet. He’s a 12-year guy. We’re taking our time with it, so we’re not in a hurry.”<\/p>\n

Running back Ken Walker III<\/a>, who was slowed during spring practices because of an ankle injury, practiced Wednesday with no apparent limitation.<\/p>\n

“He looks great,” Macdonald said. “He’s in a great spot mentally. Awesome to see him do all the things that we want him to do from the get-go. I know he’s really excited about what’s going on. Great first day with Ken.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady HendersonJul 23, 2025, 07:56 PM ET CloseBrady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}