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Anthony Bradford Is Back at Practice, and the Line Needs Him Badly
Anthony Bradford practiced Monday. Seattle designated its starting right guard to return from injured reserve, and Mike Macdonald said that if the week goes well, Bradford gets activated and plays Sunday night against Kansas City. He’s missed five games with knee and hip injuries, and the line has spent all five of them looking for him.
Here’s how much. Seattle has allowed 16 sacks in six games, per Seattle Sports. Last season it allowed 27 in seventeen, the franchise’s lowest mark since 2005. Opponents are pressuring Seattle’s quarterback on 46.4% of dropbacks, the fourth-highest rate in the league. Bradford isn’t a pass-blocking savant, but he allowed pressure just 5.6% of the time last year, and Christian Haynes and Beau Stephens have been splitting his job. “AB has played really good football for us, he’s a physical presence for us at right guard, both in run and pass,” Macdonald said. I’d settle for physical presence. Any presence.
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The pressure rate Seattle has allowed this season, fourth-highest in the NFL, per Sumer Sports via Seattle Sports.
Zach Charbonnet is also getting “a full week’s worth of reps,” Macdonald said, with “a possibility that you could see him on Sunday in some capacity.” He tore his ACL in January’s playoff win over the 49ers, and his 21-day window is about to close, so Seattle has to activate him this week or he stays on PUP for the season. The timing is very on the nose, since the Chiefs bring Kenneth Walker to town.
And one goes out. Elijah Arroyo hurt his shoulder in Denver and is headed to injured reserve, per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, which costs him at least four games. That same morning Seattle signed 29-year-old tight end Josiah Deguara, who has 78 career games, to the practice squad. Arroyo has one catch this season. The breakout is on hold again. Two players back and one out. For this team in October, that counts as a good Monday.
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I’d settle for physical presence. Any presence.
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Analysis
History Says 3-3 Is Survivable. The Schedule Has Other Ideas.
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You know one of the seven. The 2014 Seahawks were 3-3 and needed a last-minute Russell Wilson touchdown pass to Luke Willson to beat Carolina 13-9, then went to Super Bowl XLIX. I won’t be discussing how that one ended.
The schedule is the problem. ESPN’s FPI gives Seattle the third-toughest remaining schedule: the unbeaten Chiefs on Sunday, the unbeaten 49ers again, and the Rams twice. Lose to Kansas City and Seattle is 3-4 for the first time since 2022, per SI. That team won nine games.
“Three losses is definitely not going to take us out of a run for the championship, but it’s definitely time to really hone in and focus on what’s stopping us from winning these games,” Leonard Williams said. One thing is still working: SI notes Seattle hasn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher in 35 games, the longest active streak in the league. Walker is averaging 133 a game. Something gives on Sunday.
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Straight games without allowing a 100-yard rusher, the NFL’s longest active streak, per SI.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Thursday’s overtime loss in Denver drew 16.26 million viewers on Prime Video, up on last year’s Week 6 game. That’s 16 million people who saw Seattle outgain the Broncos by 185 yards and still lose. Sixteen million witnesses, and none of them can explain it. NBC Sports
Drew Lock missed Monday’s practice with an illness, though Macdonald said he was at the VMAC. With the way Seattle’s starter has been getting hit, the backup quarterback’s sinuses are now a matter of public interest. Spokesman-Review
Dontae McMillan, the West Seattle kid out of Chief Sealth, was released from the practice squad to make room for fullback Jackson Acker. Brady Russell finally has another fullback in the building. Too bad it cost the hometown story his locker. Seattle Sports
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Kyren Williams was asked why the Rams’ energy kept coming and going in Sunday’s 18-16 loss to Arizona. His answer: “Probably because I’m not out there.” He played 40 snaps. This season he’s played 70% of the offense, the third-most of any running back in the league, per ESPN. So the cure is more of the guy who’s already out there most of the time. Arizona closed as a 13.5-point underdog, which made it the biggest upset of the season by the spread. At 2-4, the Rams’ running back is filing his complaints through the locker-room microphones.
NINERS
Eddy Pineiro missed another extra point in Monday night’s win over Washington. That makes three missed extra points and three missed field goals this season, per PFT. Kyle Shanahan’s diagnosis: “Yeah, he’s got to make them.” Groundbreaking work, coach. Seattle lost to this team by three points earlier this month, and their kicker treats a 33-yard extra point like a coin flip. I’ll be chewing on that in I-5 traffic for a while.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
Seattle took this Texas A&M defensive tackle eighth overall in 1994, and after six seasons here he won a Super Bowl ring with the 2000 Ravens. Who is he?
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Sam Adams. He played in Seattle from 1994 to 1999, won Super Bowl XXXV with Baltimore, and made first-team All-Pro there in 2001. The best stuff happened after he left town.
THIS DAY IN SEAHAWKS HISTORY
2025
October 20, 2025
Four Turnovers, Still a Win: Seattle Beats Houston on Monday Night
A year ago tonight, Seattle’s offense turned it over four times and the Seahawks still beat the Texans 27-19 at Lumen Field on Monday Night Football to go 5-2. Ty Okada sacked C.J. Stroud, DeMarcus Lawrence stuffed a fourth-down try, and the defense refused to let the giveaways matter. This year’s version lost the turnover battle 3-0 in Denver behind a defense just as stubborn. Same trick, different ending.
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Pass protection, Charbonnet’s snap count, whether 3-3 is a crisis or a vibe. Send it in and I’ll answer like someone who’s watched this team since the Kingdome and has strong opinions about guards.
Five days to Kansas City. Somebody block somebody. — The Rooster