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Brady HendersonFeb 4, 2026, 03:55 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the Seattle Seahawks for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2017 after covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM.<\/p>\n Multiple Authors<\/p>\n SAN JOSE, Calif. — With four days to go before Super Bowl LX, neither Seattle Seahawks<\/a> coach Mike Macdonald nor Sam Darnold<\/a> seems concerned about the quarterback’s oblique injury.<\/p>\n “It feels really good,” Darnold said Wednesday. “Definitely the time off has helped a little bit. I’m always just going to take it one step at a time, do my rehab and do everything I need to do to make sure it feels great going into practice and going into the game … on Sunday.”<\/p>\n Macdonald, meanwhile, said his quarterback is “in a great spot” and progressing by the day.<\/p>\n There has never been a doubt about Darnold’s availability for the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots<\/a>. He played through his left oblique injury in both of Seattle’s playoff games and threw three touchdown passes in the win over the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in the NFC Championship Game on Jan. 25. He did not have an initial game designation when both teams were required to release those last Friday.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n But there has been a question of how much Darnold will do in practice this week. The Seahawks have listed him as a limited participant on all seven injury reports they’ve released since he hurt his oblique Jan. 15. After Darnold’s performance against the Rams, Macdonald said his quarterback “barely” practiced that week.<\/p>\n The Seahawks arrived in the Bay Area on Sunday evening. Players worked out Monday before a day off Tuesday, as Macdonald kept his team in its normal weekly cadence. They’re set to practice the rest of the week at San Jose State University.<\/p>\n “We’ll see today,” Macdonald said Wednesday of how much work Darnold will get in practice. “It’s definitely gradually increasing by the day. So, some days more than others. But he’s in a great spot. I know he’s really confident. We’ll see how today plays out. I’m not entirely sure how many throws or what percentage of throws. I can’t really give you right now.”<\/p>\n Each team will release its first injury report of the week later Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady HendersonFeb 4, 2026, 03:55 PM ET CloseBrady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-729745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116014587733758671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729745","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=729745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}