{"id":696909,"date":"2026-06-11T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:01:09","slug":"mike-macdonald-says-seahawks-tackle-josh-jones-not-ready-to-practice-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696909\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Macdonald says Seahawks tackle Josh Jones \u2018not ready to practice yet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Seattle Seahawks made a somewhat interesting roster addition earlier in the week,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-news\/169391\/seahawks-sign-veteran-offensive-tackle-bobby-hart-mandatory-minicamp-nfl-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> signing veteran tackle Bobby Hart ahead of mandatory minicamp<\/a>. Recently re-signed swing tackle, Josh Jones, had not been practicing throughout OTAs. Jones had dealt with some late-season injuries while deputizing for the injured Charles Cross, but ultimately didn\u2019t have a game designation for the Super Bowl and even played 10 combined snaps between offense and special teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Why hasn\u2019t Jones practiced through OTAs and minicamp? Well, Macdonald\u2019s comments at Wednesday\u2019s press conference are very telling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBobby\u2019s a good tackle,\u201d Macdonald said. \u201cWe need a third tackle. And Josh hasn\u2019t practiced yet. So, Josh needs to practice to compete with Bobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When asked what\u2019s Jones\u2019 issue, Macdonald plainly stated, \u201cHe\u2019s not practicing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s just not ready to practice yet,\u201d Macdonald said when asked if his absence is related to last season\u2019s injuries. \u201cSo he needs to become ready to practice. That\u2019s his responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Or it could be nothing and Jones is just healing up injuries from months ago. Macdonald\u2019s response and body language suggests this isn\u2019t injury related\u2014\u201ccompete with Bobby\u201d might be the biggest line of them all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The full press conference can be seen below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks made a somewhat interesting roster addition earlier in the week, signing veteran tackle Bobby Hart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,17166,27770,99],"class_list":["post-696909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-news","tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696909","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=696909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}