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Seattle Wants JSN a Sidekick Before the 1 P.M. Deadline
The NFL trade deadline hits at 1 p.m. Pacific today, and Seattle is shopping for a wide receiver. Per NFL insider Jordan Schultz, the Seahawks want another receiver to complement Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and John Schneider has until lunch to find one.
Sunday showed why. Rookie running back Jadarian Price led the team in receiving against Arizona with 54 yards on four catches, and Seahawks.com notes it was the first time all season anyone other than JSN led the team. A running back. Nice for Price, and a little alarming for everyone else.
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Games this season in which someone other than JSN led Seattle in receiving yards. It was Sunday, and it was running back Jadarian Price.
Rashid Shaheed, last year’s answer to this exact question, has 16 catches for 163 yards and a knee that has kept him off the field, per Seahawks Wire. Cooper Kupp is 33. Behind JSN, the passing game is a group project where one person does all the work.
The name getting circled is Colts receiver Josh Downs. Seahawks Wire points out that his 33 catches for 354 yards would make him Seattle’s second-leading receiver the moment he landed, and the Colts reportedly already have an offer of at least a fourth-round pick for him. Seattle already bought Quenton Nelson at the Indianapolis clearance sale, so Schneider knows where the register is.
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Behind JSN, the passing game is a group project where one person does all the work.
The catch is money. Seattle has about $3.9 million in cap space, per Over the Cap, which buys a complementary piece, not a savior. My take: get Downs or someone like him for a Day 3 pick and walk away from anything pricier. JSN doesn’t need a co-star. He needs one guy defenses have to glance at before they double him.
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Injuries
Darnold Sits Again, So Lock Gets Las Vegas
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Darnold is still mending the quad and the cracked rib from the Bears game, and the bye comes right after Vegas, so his target looks like the 49ers in Santa Clara. Quenton Nelson is out this week too, and Macdonald said “it’s possible” he’s back for San Francisco, per the Spokesman-Review.
Lock has started twice this season, both against Arizona, and Seattle won both. Now he gets a 4-5 Raiders team that just lost 38-17 to the 49ers. His elbow allowed exactly one throwing day last week and he still went 19 of 28 with no turnovers. Two wins over the Cardinals isn’t a résumé, but I’ll take a third win over anybody and keep Jalen Milroe stretching.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Tory Horton played 41 snaps against Arizona, 61% of the offense, after getting 15 at Washington in Week 3. Seattle is shopping for a receiver today and may already own half of one. SI
Arizona scored 10 points in two games against Seattle this season, tied for the fewest by any team in a division season series in the last five years, per NFL Research. Sunday’s three came against a defense missing Leonard Williams and Uchenna Nwosu, which is just rude. Seahawks.com
Two of the 10 biggest deadline mistakes of the last decade were teams sending players to Seattle: Houston dealing Duane Brown (No. 6) and the Giants dealing Leonard Williams (No. 5). Other GMs should let Schneider’s calls go to voicemail today. Bleacher Report
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Puka Nacua has sprains of his MCL and PCL plus turf toe, and Sean McVay expects to put him on injured reserve, which means at least four games. Sunday he caught 14 of 19 targets for 150 yards. McVay says the Rams will “explore all avenues,” and he’s doing it on deadline day, when every GM he calls knows exactly how badly he needs a receiver. Seattle and Los Angeles are both in the receiver aisle today. Only one of us is shopping with the wallet on fire.
NINERS
San Francisco reunited Nick Bosa and DeForest Buckner for the first time since Super Bowl LIV and got zero sacks on Kirk Cousins’ 32 dropbacks, per the San Francisco Chronicle. The only time Bosa touched Cousins, he was blocking him on a pick-six. Bosa’s review: “Sacks will come.” That’s $170 million of patience. Cousins and that same Raiders line get Seattle on Sunday, and I’d love to see our guys give the 49ers a demonstration.
CARDINALS
Gardner Minshew is feared to have a torn UCL in his throwing arm, hurt on the last play of the first half in Seattle, and could miss the rest of the season, per SI. That makes rookie Carson Beck the guy. Arizona traded Jacoby Brissett to Baltimore last week, which bumped Beck to backup, and the promotions kept coming. Mike LaFleur says Beck is “prepared.” That’s a lot to ask of a rookie promoted twice in about a week. Arizona’s depth chart is moving faster than its offense did here Sunday.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
At the 2020 trade deadline, Seattle sent offensive lineman B.J. Finney and a seventh-round pick to Cincinnati for this defensive end, the Bengals’ career sack leader. Who is he?
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Carlos Dunlap. He gave Seattle five sacks in his first eight games as a Seahawk, which is about as good as a deadline rental gets.
THIS DAY IN SEAHAWKS HISTORY
2013
November 10, 2013
Seattle Hits 9-1 for the First Time Ever
The Seahawks went into Atlanta and won 33-10, moving to 9-1 for the first time in franchise history. That season ended with a parade, so for once the good omen was telling the truth.
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Phones on until 1 p.m. Pacific. — The Rooster