following Wednesday\u2019s practice for Super Bowl 60<\/a> against the New England Patriots included a limited participant designation for rookie defensive back Nick Emmanwori. The severity was unknown and he wasn\u2019t on last week\u2019s injury report before the team flew out to San Jose.<\/p>\nUnfortunately, Emmanwori\u2019s injury occurred during the non-padded portion of practice. Practices are closed off to the media, with general summaries provided by pool reporters. Seahawks pool reporter Kalyn Kahler had the following summary:<\/p>\n
The rookie safety injured his ankle while defending a pass late in practice. He walked off the field on his own shortly before 4 p.m. Several players and coaches went over to comfort him before he left.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had an ankle today, we brought him in to look at it, and we\u2019ll kind of go from here and figure out what are the next steps?\u201d Macdonald said.<\/p>\n
It is arguably not an exaggeration to say the Seahawks wouldn\u2019t be in the Super Bowl without Nick\u2019s outstanding play in the NFC Championship Game. His two passes defensed before halftime allowed Seattle to get the ball back and score a go-ahead touchdown, from which they would never relinquish the lead again.<\/p>\n
Seattle returns to the practice field on Tuesday at 2:15 pm PT, but there will undoubtedly be more questions for Macdonald\u2014not that he\u2019s obligated to answer in great detail, never mind he may not even have the pertinent information by then\u2014on one of the most important players on the Seahawks defense. His presence allows the Seahawks to stay in nickel defense as a default base formation, and without him that means things will have to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is unwanted history already repeating for the Seattle Seahawks? A largely encouraging Seahawks injury report following Wednesday\u2019s practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,52088,103392,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-730452","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-super-bowl","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730452","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=730452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}