{"id":872857,"date":"2026-10-06T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872857\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:26:21","slug":"seahawks-poaching-commanders-rookie-running-back-robert-henry-jr-off-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872857\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks poaching Commanders rookie running back Robert Henry Jr off practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Seattle Seahawks are making more moves at the running back position, and this signing involves a practice squad poach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jordan Schultz reported on Monday that undrafted rookie Robert Henry Jr, who\u2019s been on the Washington Commanders practice squad all season, is joining the Seahawks active roster. We won\u2019t have any official transactions announced until Tuesday, so a corresponding move will have to be made to get Henry on the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Henry was a first-team All-American Conference back at UTSA, the same school where Riq Woolen starred, rushing for 1,045 yards and nine touchdowns on just 151 carries. He totaled over 2,300 yards and scored 30 total touchdowns between rushing and receiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At 5\u20199 and 196 pounds, Henry is on the smaller side for a running back and he\u2019s not a burner with his 4.52s 40-yard dash, but he\u2019s still a running back and Seattle only has two career RBs on the active roster. It\u2019s reasonable to think that if Henry is on the active roster, Velus Jones Jr would be cut and subsequently re-signed to the practice squad, as he does not have to clear waivers. He\u2019d also get three new elevations by returning to the PS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks are making more moves at the running back position, and this signing involves a practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,17166,24284,99],"class_list":["post-872857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-news","tag-seattle-seahawks-roster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872857","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=872857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}