{"id":849447,"date":"2026-04-02T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:07:15","slug":"to-my-knowledge-hes-coming-back-mike-macdonald-on-demarcus-lawrences-seahawks-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849447\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018To my knowledge, he\u2019s coming back\u2019 &#8211; Mike Macdonald on DeMarcus Lawrence\u2019s Seahawks future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Lawrence himself hasn\u2019t spoken about his playing future, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald addressed this item at the NFL\u2019s annual league meetings in Phoenix earlier this week. Short of anything Lawrence can say to the affirmative, this is about as encouraging as it gets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTo my knowledge, he\u2019s coming back,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/news\/seahawks-stick-to-plan-retaining-as-many-players-as-possible-will-look-to-young-players-to-step-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macdonald said Monday<\/a>. \u201cHe always has the right to change his mind, but as of right now, he\u2019s coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the subject of potentially bringing in another edge rusher in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-free-agency\/164284\/nfl-news-seahawks-free-agency-2026-boye-mafe-agrees-to-3-year-deal-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boye Mafe\u2019s free agent move to the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>, Macdonald said that, \u201cIf there was a right opportunity, we probably would have done it.\u201d He did add that, should a draft or post-draft opportunity not come to fruition, \u201cwe\u2019ll roll with the guys we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, one of those guys is DeMarcus Lawrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Lawrence himself hasn\u2019t spoken about his playing future, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald addressed this item&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,718,719,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-849447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-offseason-news","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116335741993311169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849447","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=849447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}