{"id":855428,"date":"2026-04-05T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855428\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:11:18","slug":"philip-rivers-drake-thomas-was-the-guy-who-stood-out-on-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855428\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers: Drake Thomas was &#8220;the guy who stood out&#8221; on Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were so many players to appreciate on this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Seattle Seahawks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> team that we still haven\u2019t spent enough time doing so for a lot of them. One of those names is linebacker Drake Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>While media members, myself included, haven\u2019t appreciated Thomas nearly as much as we\u2019d like, those closer to the game have. According to Corbin K. Smith, he\u2019s one of head coach Mike Macdonald\u2019s favorite players.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, when Thomas had only been starting for a little over a month, Daniel Jeremiah said he was becoming one of his favorite players. This was when he was even more unknown around the league than he is now. From the moment he took over, he was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Philip Rivers said he was the one Seahawk who stood out in particular when playing against the historic 2026 defense.<\/p>\n<p>While Thomas might not even be a top-10 household name on the 2026 Seahawks, he must be remembered. Without him emerging as an excellent starter after coming in off the bench in Week 3, this team might\u2019ve had a completely different result. Mike Macdonald, Daniel Jeremiah, and Philip Rivers acknowledged that. Seahawks media should as well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While he\u2019ll make more money this season, he doesn&#8217;t need to be any bigger of a piece of the puzzle as he was last year. He\u2019ll continue to be a darling to tape-watchers and league insiders if he can keep up anything close to that level of violence.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2026\/04\/05\/philip-rivers-on-seahawks-drake-thomas-was-the-guy-who-stood-out\/89460943007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philip Rivers on Seahawks: Drake Thomas was &quot;the guy who stood out&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philip Rivers on Seahawks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Philip Rivers on Seahawks: Drake Thomas was &#8220;the guy who stood out&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were so many players to appreciate on this year\u2019s Seattle Seahawks team that we still haven\u2019t spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[2873,116830,2856,34598,7,8488,2860,6,3725,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-855428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-coby-bryant","9":"tag-corbin-k-smith","10":"tag-daniel-jeremiah","11":"tag-drake-thomas","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-josh-jobe","14":"tag-mike-macdonald","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-philip-rivers","17":"tag-seahawks","18":"tag-seattle","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks","20":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116353216472138465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855428","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=855428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}