The Seattle Seahawks are just days away from a playoff date with the San Francisco 49ers, and things are looking a little dicey on the injury front. As expected, DeeJay Dallas, Xavier Crawford, Shelby Harris and Phil Haynes ended up non-participating in Wednesday’s practice. Al Woods was also demoted to DNP after previously being listed as a restricted entrant. Fortunately, however, Noah Fant and Ryan Neal were both listed as limited participants.
One area of note here is that Kenneth Walker was demoted to a DNP from a full participant in Tuesday’s walk-thru today with an ankle injury. Rotowire reps report that this is likely a maintenance/rest day to give him some extra recovery time ahead of this weekend’s game;
“His absence a day later is likely due to maintenance due to the ankle problem he has been struggling with since early December.”
The fact that Tariq Woolen remains a full competitor after a daunting injury last weekend bodes well. Bruce Irvin was also upgraded to a full participant, which is good after seeing what he did in that Rams game last week. Here’s a bit more clarity on some of the players.
#Seahawks Injury report: DNP:
CB Xavier Crawford (hamstring), RB DeeJay Dallas (ankle, quadriceps), DE Shelby Harris (knee), G Phil Haynes (ankle), G Gabe Jackson (non-injury – resting player), RB Kenneth Walker (ankle), DT Al Woods (Achilles, non-injury-rest)— James Palmer (@JamesPalmerTV) January 12, 2023
Dee Eskridge returned to training this week and as previously reported, that doesn’t mean he’s likely to play this weekend, but it does open his 21-day window to return from IR. Hopefully he gets that opportunity if the Hawks can pick up a win this weekend.