the injury to second-round rookie Bud Clark<\/a>, which is a significant blow to Seattle\u2019s safety depth.<\/p>\nLet\u2019s get to our second Winners and Losers of preseason.<\/p>\n
Elijah Arroyo continues a strong camp and preseason<\/p>\n
A mostly unremarkable rookie season meant we didn\u2019t see as much of Arroyo has hoped last year. He\u2019s been one of the standouts in training camp, and the hope was that Brian Fleury would help unlock Arroyo\u2019s potential. On the game\u2019s opening drive, he caught a play-action pass out in the flat for a sizeable gain on 3rd and 1, then torched Tennessee\u2019s starting defense (who, admittedly, torched themselves with a blown coverage) with a 36-yard touchdown grab.<\/p>\n
Jacardia Wright comes back with a bang<\/p>\n
Having missed almost all of last season (albeit on the practice squad) with an injury, then a decent chunk of training camp with another injury, the second-year UDFA dashed through a gaping hole for a 69-yard touchdown run against Tennessee\u2019s starting defense.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t all sunshine and rainbows for Wright, who had a brutal pass pro mix-up that led to a (negated via penalty) Drew Lock interception, and he also botched a 3rd and 9 conversion by not getting up the field instead of trying to juke a tackler.<\/p>\n
Lock had some wayward accuracy last week, but he was on point against the Titans, going 12\/14 for 103 yards and a touchdown. He did have a pick taken away due to a ticky-tack penalty, and it was a poor decision, but I place the initial blame on Jacardia Wright. Given the performance of his teammate, Jalen Milroe, QB2 is safe.<\/p>\n
Connor O\u2019Toole livens up the pass rush<\/p>\n
From my camp observations, beat reporter write-ups, and the first preseason game, the pass rush depth at the bottom of the roster had mostly underwhelmed. Connor O\u2019Toole had such a good summer as a rookie that he stayed on the roster and wasn\u2019t even exposed to waivers at any point. O\u2019Toole was excellent against the Titans, recording a sack and a key third-down stop on a Will Levis keeper.<\/p>\n
Chazz Surratt, Chris Paul Jr impress in first half<\/p>\n
Tyrice Knight and Patrick O\u2019Connell are so valuable that even they got the night off. Surratt was shooting gaps and closing in on ball-carriers, notably recording a strip sack of Cam Ward. Paul, who has scarcely featured in camp or preseason, had a nice fourth-down run stuff of Tyjae Spears.<\/p>\n
Christian Haynes looks better<\/p>\n
While I found it peculiar that Haynes played into the fourth quarter (maybe a result of Bryce Cabeldue being subbed in sooner for an injured Mason Richman), he looks like he\u2019s improving a bit under John Benton. He had a key block as the pulling guard on Jacardia\u2019s touchdown run, and he had a rep where he tossed Jeffery Simmons down in pass pro. Was there a snap where Simmons got him back? Sure! But he does that to a lot of guys. Maybe Haynes is salvageable as a backup guard.<\/p>\n
The cornerbacks have bright moments<\/p>\n
I thought Michael Dansby had a solid game in pass coverage, while Nehemiah Pritchett had a brilliant tackle on a screen pass when he undercut the blocker. Andre Fuller\u2019s face mask was ugly but he had a nice sideline break-up that was, well, it was pass interference but let\u2019s say it was great coverage. Noah Igbinoghene\u2019s DPI was bogus and he looks like the most polished corner to me out of everyone who played tonight. Admittedly, Tennessee\u2019s passing game looks so bad when guys like Will Levis and Mitchell Trubisky are doing whatever on the field.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see how Trevon Diggs factors into the equation next week\u2026 and maybe Julian Neal?<\/p>\n
Montorie Foster might be making this team<\/p>\n
I forgot to put this in the original write-up, but Foster just narrowly missed out on what would\u2019ve been a diving grab touchdown (one of Lock\u2019s only two incomplete passes), had a 24-yard catch in the second half, plus a special teams tackle. If Foster is playing special teams, that helps his roster case. He did have a procedural penalty but that\u2019s par for the course for preseason. Foster had tough odds without Jake Bobo, but Bobo isn\u2019t playing this season so that changes the equation a bit.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s health is ravaged some more in Nashville<\/p>\n
As if that wasn\u2019t enough, backup lineman Mason Richman is believed to have a major injury as well after his knee buckled on the game\u2019s opening drive. His season figures to also be over.<\/p>\n
Whether through roster cuts (Andre Fuller, Emmanuel Henderson, Deven Eastern, and Michael Dansby are all on the bubble, at best) or injuries (Clark likely out long-term, Julian Neal has missed most of camp and preseason), it\u2019s looking like there will be very little impact from this year\u2019s draft. That\u2019s not some disastrous outcome but it\u2019s what would\u2019ve been ideal, and now the 2026 class is almost destined to be largely dependent on what Jadarian Price can do.<\/p>\n
The good news? As long as the mystery surrounding Tory Horton clears up, we should see him, Rylie Mills, and Elijah Arroyo all step up in year two. It\u2019s more important the 2025 class takes that leap than ask a lot of out this year\u2019s weaker (on paper) group. Richman, sadly, is part of that 2025 group and now he joins Robbie Ouzts on the long-term injury list.<\/p>\n
All the best to Bud and Mason.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Jalen Milroe discussion time<\/p>\n
That was bad. I can\u2019t really sugarcoat it any other way. Milroe was 6\/11 for 52 yards, two terrible picks, and two sacks. Once again he got sacked on a fourth down when throwing the ball up for grabs is arguably better. His best play was probably the over the middle throw to Montorie Foster Jr for 24 yards, followed by a deep ball to Cody White that was dropped. Everything else was just basic stuff that shouldn\u2019t intrigue anyone as far as his ceiling.<\/p>\n
I get that Milroe is mobile and fast but if he can\u2019t do the quarterback stuff well then you can barely run an NFL offense with him. The good news for the Seahawks is that he was a hedge against Sam Darnold not panning out. Darnold is panning out thus far. My skepticism about Milroe before he was drafted was rooted in him not being good at a lot of regular quarterback things like throwing on time, pocket movement, decision-making, and bad turnovers. I kept an open mind when Seattle drafted him but I\u2019m not really interested in keeping this up beyond for too much longer if there is not major improvement.<\/p>\n
I could live with Russell Wilson\u2019s sacks (before he lost his elite mobility and elusiveness) because he did so many other cool things and was a super accurate QB who made a lot of great decisions. Milroe\u2019s sacks and bad decisions don\u2019t have any sort of meaningful payoff outside of scrambles.<\/p>\n
Uhhhh is Jason Myers okay?<\/p>\n
The one practice I saw Myers have a struggle was at VMAC. It was a bit of a breezy day and he was pulling all of his kicks wide right. Thus far in preseason he\u2019s missed three kicks (two field goals and a PAT), all of which sailed right. Even his first-half field goal was drifting right from the left hash.<\/p>\n
Hopefully he\u2019s getting his misses out of the way now and it\u2019s not a sign of a 2021 redux to come; especially given this is a contract year.<\/p>\n
Cody White does not help his case for a roster spot<\/p>\n
Words don\u2019t do justice for how badly Cody White misjudged this ball and gifted the Titans a field goal.<\/p>\n
He followed that up later in the game with a drop on a deep pass from Jalen Milroe, tweaking his back in the process.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been used to White oscillating between roster and practice squad. Jake Bobo\u2019s injury complicates the WR5\/6 race a bit, but Cody did not help matters with his performance.<\/p>\n
Logan Brown doesn\u2019t fare much better in Week 2<\/p>\n
While the offensive line as a whole mostly held up in pass pro, Logan Brown did not. After a penalty-laden, pressure-prone struggle against the Cowboys, Brown immediately started the Titans game with a false start. He also got run over for a sack on Jalen Milroe in the fourth quarter. It\u2019s hard to imagine any path for him onto the 53.<\/p>\n
What was up with all the face mask penalties? Both teams committed some egregious face masks that almost twisted heads off.Emmanuel Henderson Jr did some nice work as a special teams gunner, which is about the best case scenario for him as far as sneaking into the 53.Uso Seomalo is a nice story but he\u2019s just getting blown back way too much as a defensive tackle. He might not even be a practice squad stash.Ricky White\u2019s pass interference was not subtle and that\u2019s what got him flagged. It could be another round on the practice squad for him.JR Singleton is the rare defensive tackle with 10 tackles in a game. Again, not likely to make the roster, but that was notable in the box score.Brandon Pili ate up Tennessee\u2019s second unit by blowing up a run and drawing a holding penalty that wiped out a touchdown.We\u2019ve got a short week before the preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday at 5 pm PT. After that, it\u2019s a weekend of tough roster cuts and practice squad forming, and we can finally see the first-team in action. I can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks had a much better preseason game than last week\u2019s opener against the Dallas Cowboys. Well,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,50640,27772,99],"class_list":["post-823989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","tag-seattle-seahawks-preseason","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823989","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=823989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}