{"id":1001063,"date":"2026-09-15T01:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1001063\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T01:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:51:18","slug":"seahawks-sam-darnold-has-soft-tissue-injury-return-timeline-unclear-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1001063\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks\u2019 Sam Darnold has soft tissue injury, return timeline unclear \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold has a \u201cvery unique, soft tissue\u201d glute injury with no set timeline for his return, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is believed to be short-term and Darnold&#8217;s hip joint was unaffected, the team said. He has not been placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>It appears unlikely that Darnold will be able to play Sunday at the Arizona Cardinals. He did not practice on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Darnold was injured on Seattle\u2019s first series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/tag\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New England Patriots<\/a> last week. He was sacked by Dre\u2019Mont Jones and limped off the field.<\/p>\n<p>Backup Drew Lock replaced him and went 16 of 22 for 187 yards and a touchdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks-patriots-score-week-1\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11492454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">as the Seahawks rallied for a 13-10 victory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darnold, 29, did not miss a game last season as he led the Seahawks to a Super Bowl title. He threw for 4,048 yards with 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions as Seattle won a franchise-record 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. Which others games are going to be appointment viewing?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold has a \u201cvery unique, soft tissue\u201d glute injury with no set timeline for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":["post-1001063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-seahawks","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-seattleseahawks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117272555261808808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}