The Seahawks listed seven players as not practicing Wednesday as they began Week 6.
Cornerback Devon Witherspoon (knee), outside linebacker DeMarcus Lawrence (quadricep) and safety Julian Love (hamstring) did not return to practice after missing Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers.
Outside linebacker Derick Hall, who left the game with an oblique injury, also sat out Wednesday’s practice.
Linebacker Ernest Jones IV (shoulder), offensive tackle Josh Jones (ankle) and defensive tackle Jarran Reed (rest) were the other Seahawks who missed Wednesday’s session.
Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald ruled out Hall and Jones for Sunday and said the team won’t know until the end of the week whether they will have Lawrence, Love and Witherspoon.
Cornerback Riq Woolen is another player whose status is uncertain, but he returned to limited participation in practice, a step in the protocol as he recovers from a concussion.
Rookie safety Nick Emmanwori (ankle) also was limited.
Jacksonville’s signature win drew a big crowd for the Disney networks televising the game.
According to ESPN, the Week 5 Monday night multicast of the Jaguars-Chiefs game generated an audience of 22.5 million, across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, and ESPN Deportes.
It was the most-watched game of the fifth weekend of the NFL season.
The shift from ESPN only to ESPN/ABC has dramatically expanded the footprint of the Monday night game, which is good for the network(s) and good for the league.
No audience number was included in the press release for the latest ManningCast. Two weeks ago, 22.8 million watching Lions-Ravens. Of that amount, only 887,000 watched the alternate broadcast on ESPN2. It was less than four percent of the total audience.
The Jaguars waived running back Cody Schrader before facing the Chiefs on Monday night, but he made a quick return to the team.
The Jags announced that they have signed Schrader to their active roster on Wednesday. No corresponding move was needed because the Jaguars placed tight end Brenton Strange on injured reserve Tuesday.
Schrader was signed off of the Rams’ practice squad ahead of Week 2. He did not appear in any games during his first stint with the team, but did play for the Rams as a temporary elevation in Week 1.
The Jaguars also announced that they have signed tight end Qadir Ismail. He is the son of former NFL wideout Qadry Ismail and the nephew of former NFL receiver Raghib Ismail.
Football, for the first time, is coming to Baltimore’s iconic baseball venue.
Via Todd Karpovich of the Baltimore Sun, the Rams will practice at Camden Yards in the days between their Week 6 game against the Ravens and their trip to London for a Week 7 game against the Jaguars.
The Rams struck a deal with the Orioles to use the facility from October 11 through 17.
Practicing at M&T Bank Stadium wasn’t an option, given the effort to preserve the quality of the grass field in the Ravens’ home venue.
As noted by Hayes Gardner of the Baltimore Banner, it will be the first time Camden Yards has ever been used for a sporting event other than a baseball game or practice since it opened 33 years ago.
In 1995, Camden Yards hosted a visit from the Pope. In recent years, concerts have been held there. Other than that, it’s been all baseball, with no football or other sports being played or practiced there.
The Rams’ practices at Camden Yards will be closed to the public.
It makes sense for the Rams, who otherwise would have had to return to L.A. and then re-cross the country before flying to London.
The Jaguars experienced something on Monday night that they had not experienced in a long time.
Their win over the Chiefs was their first on Monday Night Football since the 2011 season and it was also just their third appearance on a Monday night since that year. That speaks to how rarely the Jaguars have been in the NFL’s spotlight, at least for positive reasons, and the larger meaning of the win came up at head coach Liam Coen’s press conference on Tuesday.
Coen was asked if winning on Monday night in the manner they did against a team on the other end of the spectrum in terms of national attention represented a statement game for his team.
“The opportunity to play on primetime is definitely something that you want more of it as an organization,” Coen said. “As a team, you want to be able to play in those moments and have those stages to perform. We’re really not as concerned about the rest of the league in terms of how they view us. We obviously want respect, but that’s ours to take. You want to have pride in what you do as a team, as an individual, as a coach, as a player, as a staff member. You want to have pride in what you do. Ultimately, I think, when you go out and win those type of games, you can have pride in how you walk and how you talk and how you parent and how you father and how you do everything. Our players right now have confidence. There’s still a lot to clean up, but there’s a lot of confidence in this building right now.”
Winning leads to more national television exposure, a bigger place in conversations about the state of the league and other things that lead to the kind of respect that Coen was talking about on Tuesday. The Jaguars are doing their part so far with a 4-1 start and more of the same will ensure a higher profile than they’ve grown accustomed to in Jacksonville.
