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Week 2
Jadarian Price Gets His Reunion, and Jeremiyah Love Already Talked
Seattle’s rookie running back walks into State Farm Stadium on Sunday and lines up across from the guy who used to take his carries. Jeremiyah Love went third overall to Arizona in April. Jadarian Price went 32nd to us. Before that they split one backfield in South Bend, and the two of them are the reason the 2026 draft is in the record book at all.
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Love at No. 3 and Price at No. 32 marked the first time in the modern draft era, which began in 1967, that the top two running backs selected came from the same school.
Price has been openly looking forward to this all week. He told the team’s own site that he and Love used to make bets with each other before Notre Dame games, and the wager was never subtle: “We said, ‘OK, going into this game, who’s going to have more touchdowns?’” He also made clear the competition was never poisonous, because what would be the point. “I wanted to prove to myself that I’m just as good or better.”
They have plans for afterward, too. “It’ll be special,” Price told Seahawks.com about facing Love’s Cardinals, adding that the two have discussed swapping jerseys and will “definitely get a picture” for the Notre Dame people. Lovely. Sweet, even. Then Love stood at a podium Thursday and calmly told the entire Arizona defense how to handle his friend.
“You gotta get him early before he starts rolling,” Love said, per ClutchPoints, before explaining that Price is hard to stop, real fast, and not somebody you can beat up in pass protection. Read that back. The best intelligence Arizona has on our first-round pick is a list of things he is excellent at.
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That is not a scouting report. That is a reference letter.
The catch is whether Price gets enough football to make the photo worth framing. He ran 10 times for 52 yards in his debut and played 24 snaps, exactly one more than George Holani. If Sunday is supposed to be a moment, somebody on the coaching staff has to actually hand him the ball.
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Injuries
Ty Okada Didn’t Practice Wednesday. He Didn’t Practice Thursday Either.
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Nick Emmanwori was out there both days, and both days he was limited, carrying an ankle and a hip on the same injury line. The ankle is the July surgery everyone has tracked since camp. The hip showed up this week uninvited. Macdonald said Wednesday that Okada still has a chance to play Sunday, which is the kind of thing a head coach says in front of a microphone on a Wednesday.
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Safeties on Seattle’s 53-man roster. Two of the three have spent this entire week on the injury report.
The actual good news came at receiver, where Tory Horton was a full participant again and is set to make his season debut, and at cornerback, where Josh Jobe was full with a wrist. Game designations land today and practice squad elevations come Saturday.
So Seattle is probably going back to the same solution it used in Week 1: promote a safety nobody outside Renton had a strong opinion about and let him start. It worked once. That is not the same thing as a plan.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Week 4 is now the likely target for Sam Darnold’s return, per Ian Rapoport, from the soft-tissue glute injury that ended his season opener after five plays. On Monday nobody would name a week. Now there is a week, which in soft-tissue terms means precisely nothing until he throws on a Wednesday. Yahoo Sports
Cooper Kupp opened the week limited with a back injury and was a full participant Thursday, which clears him for Sunday. He is 33 years old and catching passes one-handed from a quarterback who had no practice reps. Any sentence about Kupp that contains the word “back” costs me a year of life. RotoWire
Seattle signed rookie guard Evan Beerntsen to the practice squad on Monday. He was one of the six offensive players who worked out at the VMAC on Sept. 4 and didn’t sign. Two weeks later, with Mason Richman on injured reserve, the phone rang again. The front office keeps its old missed-call list and I respect it. Seahawks.com
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Sean McVay reported that Myles Garrett’s knee surgery went well, then described the recovery like this: crutches one day, walking without them the next, “He’s like Wolverine, healing fast.” He also said they will not rush him back. To my knowledge Wolverine has never required arthroscopic surgery, a stay on injured reserve, or a head coach doing comic book publicity at a Friday morning presser.
NINERS
San Francisco’s big Friday event is a party. The 49ers Foundation is throwing an evening celebrating 80 years of franchise history at a distillery on Treasure Island, with Jerry Rice and Bryant Young on the guest list and a Grammy-winning artist performing. An entire night devoted to the portion of the story that already happened. Bring the photo albums.
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CARDINALS
Arizona defensive coordinator Nick Rallis was asked whether he would pick Jeremiyah Love’s brain about how to stop Jadarian Price and said they will use whatever information they can get on an opponent. So the Cardinals’ plan for a first-round running back is to debrief their other first-round running back about spring practices in Indiana. Best of luck with the Fighting Irish film library, fellas.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This defensive end signed with Seattle as a free agent in 2007 after eight seasons in Atlanta, then led the NFC with a career-high 14.5 sacks and was named NFC Defensive Player of the Year in his first season here. Who is he?
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Patrick Kerney. He was also first-team All-Pro that year, and when he retired in 2010 after 11 seasons he had started all 16 games seven different times.
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