In an NFL Media story<\/a> that ran earlier in the day on Wednesday, Seahawks players raved about what the safety had meant to the defense this year. <\/p>\n\u201cIt allows you to be versatile,\u201d safety Julian Love told Kevin Patra. \u201cYou can use him as an outside linebacker. Use him as a linebacker. Use him as a nickel. Use him as a corner. Use him as a safety. Whatever. It\u2019s an incredible X-factor. And there are few.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rookie\u2019s stat line reflected that, too. Emmanwori finished his first season in Seattle with 81 tackles, 11 passes defensed, nine tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and an interception. In two playoff games, he\u2019d broken up four passes and recovered a fumble.<\/p>\n
Just four days away from Super Bowl 60 against the Patriots, Emmanwori\u2019s status has become a major storyline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 One of Seattle\u2019s best young players suffered an injury in Wednesday\u2019s practice. Rookie safety Nick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-731081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nick-emmanwori"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116018070712807977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731081","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=731081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}