{"id":321224,"date":"2025-08-27T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/321224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:20","slug":"seahawks-coach-mike-macdonald-suggests-plans-for-backup-qb-jalen-milroe-to-have-packages-with-starting-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/321224\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald suggests plans for backup QB Jalen Milroe to have packages with starting offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seattle Seahawks<\/a> rookie Jalen Milroe<\/a> is entering the 2025 season as the third-string quarterback behind Sam Darnold<\/a> and Drew Lock<\/a>. However, according to coach Mike Macdonald, there appears to be a plan in place for the former Alabama star to get on the field in certain situations.<\/p>\n

The No. 92 overall pick from the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a> could see the field early during his rookie season in different packages, while offering a unique look in practice as the scout team quarterback.<\/p>\n

“We’re gonna have plays for Jalen in game plans, and he’s gonna rep those with the ones,”\u00a0Macdonald said on Monday.<\/a> “And however we build the package for him going into games, he needs those reps in walkthrough and full speed. So that’s gonna be important.”<\/p>\n

Milroe appeared in all three of Seattle’s preseason games and finished 22 of 39 for 255 yards and a touchdown. Milroe started and played the entire game in Seattle’s preseason finale against the Green Bay Packers<\/a> last weekend and finished with 148 yards passing.<\/p>\n

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“I thought there was a lot of good stuff,” Macdonald said. “He made some really good throws on time, went through his progressions. I thought the guy made some really cool plays that we can build on moving forward.”<\/p>\n

Milroe won’t be the only quarterback from his rookie class to begin the season as a backup. Other quarterbacks from the 2025 draft class set to start the season on the bench include Jaxson Dart<\/a> (New York Giants<\/a>), Tyler Shough<\/a> (New Orleans Saints<\/a>) and Dillon Gabriel<\/a> and Shedeur Sanders<\/a> (Cleveland Browns<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Seahawks open the 2025 season against the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Seattle Seahawks rookie Jalen Milroe is entering the 2025 season as the third-string quarterback behind Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[54,1033,2868,7,345,753,13,55,56,6,1878,252,238,237,261,2635,17,283],"class_list":{"0":"post-321224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-dillon-gabriel","10":"tag-drew-lock","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-jalen-milroe","14":"tag-jaxson-dart","15":"tag-new-orleans-saints","16":"tag-new-york-giants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sam-darnold","19":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","20":"tag-seahawks","21":"tag-seattle","22":"tag-seattle-seahawks","23":"tag-seattleseahawks","24":"tag-shedeur-sanders","25":"tag-tyler-shough"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115099836373064289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321224","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=321224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}