{"id":633953,"date":"2025-12-28T01:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/633953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:26:29","slug":"seahawks-elevate-rb-cam-akers-t-amari-kight-from-practice-squad-for-week-17-game-at-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/633953\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks Elevate RB Cam Akers &#038; T Amari Kight From Practice Squad For Week 17 Game at Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE\u2014The Seahawks elevated running back Cam Akers and tackle Amari Kight ahead of their Week 17 game against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second straight elevation for both players, and third overall this season for Kight.<\/p>\n<p>Akers, who signed with Seattle in November, made his Seahawks debut last week, playing four snaps on special teams. A 2020 second-round pick of the Rams, he has appeared in 57 career games with 17 starts, rushing for 2,044 yards and 13 touchdowns on 507 carries. He gives the Seahawks a third running back behind Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet with usual No. 3 back George Holani currently on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Kight, an undrafted rookie out of UCF, gives the Seahawks added depth at tackle with starting left tackle Charles Cross out due to a hamstring injury. Josh Jones, who is usually the swing tackle behind Cross and Abraham Lucas, is expected to make his second straight start in place of Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE\u2014The Seahawks elevated running back Cam Akers and tackle Amari Kight ahead of their Week 17 game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[10261,8761,235,260,2567,7,509,507,6399,506,6,236,88857],"class_list":{"0":"post-633953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-amari-kight","9":"tag-cam-akers","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-homepage-hero","15":"tag-news-national-feature","16":"tag-news-roster-moves","17":"tag-news-stories","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-panthers","20":"tag-seattle-seahawks-at-carolina-panthers-2025-reg-17"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115794594256703004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633953","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=633953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}