{"id":649512,"date":"2026-01-03T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649512\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:43:13","slug":"mike-macdonald-tory-horton-wont-be-back-for-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649512\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Macdonald: Tory Horton won\u2019t be back for postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seattle Seahawks have a crucial Week 18 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday evening in a winner take all battle that will decide both first place in the NFC West and the top seed in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the wake of the Seahawks offense struggling at times and failing to perform at the level it did during the first half of the season, some fans have hypothesized that a postseason return from injured reserve for rookie fifth-round pick wide receiver Tory Horton could give the offense the spark and juice it has been lacking at times in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, according to Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald, Horton won\u2019t be back this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The fact that the Seahawks traded a pair of Day 3 picks to the New Orleans Saints for Rashid Shaheed less than 48 hours after Horton got banged up against the Washington Commanders in Week 9 may have been a clue that Horton wouldn\u2019t be back in action quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In any case, it\u2019s on to the San Francisco 49ers for Week 18 for the Seahawks, and for Horton it\u2019s on to the offseason with fellow wide receiver Cody White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks have a crucial Week 18 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday evening in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,52088,718,5580],"class_list":{"0":"post-649512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-injuries","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks-roster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115828634821297806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649512","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=649512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}