Potentially catastrophic news has come in on the young Seahawks sensation.
Is unwanted history already repeating for the Seattle Seahawks?
A largely encouraging Seahawks injury report following Wednesday’s practice for Super Bowl 60 against the New England Patriots included a limited participant designation for rookie defensive back Nick Emmanwori. The severity was unknown and he wasn’t on last week’s injury report before the team flew out to San Jose.
Unfortunately, Emmanwori’s injury occurred during the non-padded portion of practice. Practices are closed off to the media, with general summaries provided by pool reporters. Seahawks pool reporter Kalyn Kahler had the following summary:
The rookie safety injured his ankle while defending a pass late in practice. He walked off the field on his own shortly before 4 p.m. Several players and coaches went over to comfort him before he left.
“He had an ankle today, we brought him in to look at it, and we’ll kind of go from here and figure out what are the next steps?” Macdonald said.
This is eerily reminiscent to when Seahawks legend Kam Chancellor tore his MCL in practice two days before Seattle’s Super Bowl 49 defeat to the Patriots.
Emmanwori has had a few ankle issues this season, including a sprain a few plays into his NFL debut against the San Francisco 49ers that resulted in missing the ensuing four games.
It is arguably not an exaggeration to say the Seahawks wouldn’t be in the Super Bowl without Nick’s outstanding play in the NFC Championship Game. His two passes defensed before halftime allowed Seattle to get the ball back and score a go-ahead touchdown, from which they would never relinquish the lead again.
Seattle returns to the practice field on Tuesday at 2:15 pm PT, but there will undoubtedly be more questions for Macdonald—not that he’s obligated to answer in great detail, never mind he may not even have the pertinent information by then—on one of the most important players on the Seahawks defense. His presence allows the Seahawks to stay in nickel defense as a default base formation, and without him that means things will have to change.
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