Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Jarran Reed turns 33 years old on Tuesday. In 11 years, the former Alabama standout figures he’ll “probably coach my son up, probably (be) at cheerleading practice some with my daughters.”

One thing he won’t be doing at 44, Reed said, is playing football. But when the Seahawks square off against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, the Seattle defense is expecting to face quarterback Philip Rivers, a 44-year-old former Pro Bowler who has spent the past five seasons as the football coach at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope.

Rivers ended his retirement with Indianapolis experiencing quarterback injuries. He signed with the Colts on Tuesday and is in Seattle after three days of practice.

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Reed has been around long enough to own a sack of Rivers. He took down the former Athens High School star in the Seahawks’ 25-17 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Nov. 4, 2018.

“You still got to respect the game, man,” Reed said of facing a quarterback who hasn’t played in an NFL game since Jan. 9, 2021, “because overall he was a great quarterback in this league when he was playing. You know, we can’t look past it. We can’t take it for granted. Like I say all the time, we got to respect our grind. We got to respect our process. And we just got to play good football. …

“He’s a veteran quarterback. Smart. He’s seen every type of defense that you can name. He knows where to go with the ball. I don’t know what to expect, to be honest. I don’t know which quarterback we’ll see, but, you know, he’s coming off the couch after five years, so we’ll see when we get to Sunday.”

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Seattle ranks second in the NFL in scoring defense, operating with the motto M.O.B. Ties. M.O.B. stands for “Mission Over BS.”

“It’s something that we came up with as the players — the leadership group, the whole team,” Reed said. “We as guys thought that’s just the standard that we set for ourselves and for the team, something that we uphold and we hold dearly to us of how we play, how we interact with each other, our characteristics, how we carry ourselves. It’s everything — all involved.”

The Seahawks have a 10-3 record entering the 3:25 p.m. CST Sunday kickoff against the Colts at Lumen Field in Seattle. They’re tied for first in the NFC West with the Los Angeles Rams, who are the Seahawks’ opponents in their next game.

A bigger worry for the Seattle defense than Rivers might be Jonathan Taylor. The Indianapolis running back leads the NFL with 1,356 rushing yards and 18 touchdowns in the 2025 season.

“You can’t even begin to (pass) rush or nothing without stopping the run,” Reed said. “And that’s on us up front, so if we’re not stopping the run, then we have a problem up front. We take very much pride in that every week, every practice, every time we hit the field.”

Sunday’s game will be Reed’s second since he returned from injured reserve.

Reed suffered a fracture in his hand in a 27-19 victory over the Houston Texans on Oct. 20. With the Seahawks entering their bye week, Reed had surgery and was on the field when the schedule resumed on Nov. 2. But he reinjured his hand in the 38-14 victory over the Washington Commanders.

“To have surgery and then I think I played 10 days later to refracture it,” Reed said, “it was painful. But we had to make a decision that was best for us in the long haul, and we made. Now we back.”

A second surgery kept Reed sidelined for four games.