The Seahawks will have one of their key defensive players, but will not have two offensive contributors.
Via multiple reporters, head coach Mike Macdonald told reporters in his Friday press conference that linebacker Ernest Jones is set to play against the Rams on Sunday.
Jones was listed as limited on Wednesday and Thursday with a knee injury.
But center Jalen Sundell (knee) and receiver Tory Horton (shin) have been ruled out for the contest.
In his second season, Sundell has started all nine games for the Seahawks in 2025. Horton — a fifth-round pick in this year’s draft — hasn’t played since the Nov. 2 victory over Washington. He has 13 catches for 161 yards with five touchdowns this season.
Macdonald noted Sundell and Horton are both potential candidates for injured reserve.
All other players on Seattle’s 53-man roster are set to play.
The Rams will list a couple of key players on their final injury report, but they should be OK to play on Sunday.
Via multiple reporters, head coach Sean McVay said in his Friday press conference that receiver Davante Adams (oblique) and defensive end Kobie Turner (back) will be questionable for the Week 11 matchup vs. Seattle. But McVay is expecting both Adams and Turner to play.
Adams suffered his oblique injury during last week’s victory over the 49ers. He did not practice on Wednesday but returned in a limited capacity on Thursday.
In nine games this season, Adams has 42 receptions for 568 yards with a league-leading nine touchdowns.
Turner has recorded 1.5 sacks with two tackles for loss, six QB hits, and one pass defensed this year.
For two seasons, Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp played alongside one another on the Rams.
Kupp was a clear mentor for Nacua in 2023 and 2024, helping the young receiver acclimate to the league and become one of its most productive receivers.
The two will meet on opposite sidelines for the first time on Sunday when the Seahawks play the Rams in Los Angeles.
In his Thursday press conference, Nacua told reporters that it will be “a foreign feeling for sure” to play against Kupp.
“I know I’m excited to see him,” Nacua said, via transcript from the team. “We’ve exchanged some texts. You have some games that you remember the dates, and this has been one that I’m excited for. It’s the next one for us. It’s a big one and it’s the one we’re preparing for, but I’ll be excited to see ‘No. 10’ for sure.”
What did Nacua learn from Kupp?
“The attention to detail and the preparation of from the board work, to how he took notes, to watching the tape, but then to the weight room and to the field work,” Nacua said. “You saw it in everything he did.
“I guess that it’s the level of comfort from the first moment he came in,” Nacua added of his relationship with Kupp. “When I first joined the team, he had just had his third son. There was some time he wasn’t there and it was just Cooper Kupp from the Zoom call. I was like ‘Man, this guy has to be 6’5, 275 pounds.’ He came in and he had the big beard. I was like ‘Oh man, this guy, yeah, he is a big human being.’ Just the level of comfort that I was able to feel with him and the build of communication that we started from Day 1 to where we are now.”
Nacua said he’s expecting to exchange jerseys with Kupp at some point after the game, whether that’s on the field or they send them to one another later. Even though Kupp is no longer with the Rams, there’s a friendship between the two men that remains.
“I guess that was the best way I could describe it like, ‘I know this is not the last time I’ll see you,’” Nacua said. “I saw something on social media. He was like, ‘I’m not dead.’ I’ve never thought of it like that.
“He’s just not in California, but he’s always been a phone call and a text away. I’m grateful for the relationship that we have and it’ll be fun to see him over there.”
The stakes for Sunday’s game between the Seahawks and Rams are clear, but Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald doesn’t want them to be the main thing on his team’s mind.
Both teams are 7-2 and at the top of the NFC West heading into the matchup in Los Angeles. The winner will get a leg up in the race for the divisional crown and will likely spark more conversation about being a Super Bowl contender, but Macdonald wants the Seahawks to keep their eyes on the ball rather than what might happen if they win.
“It’s just noise,” Macdonald said, via the team’s website. “We’ve got to keep our eye on the process and focus, I say it every week, let’s just focus on us and focus on us being the best football team we possibly can be every time we walk out on the field. I think our guys have been doing that.”
The Seahawks are in the position they’re in right now because they have been taking things one game at a time. Whatever happens on Sunday, continuing that will be their best path to making the kind of playoff run they have in mind this year.
In August 2024, the NFL suspended Rams tackle Alaric Jackson two games for violating the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy. A reason for the suspension was never disclosed, by the league, the Rams, or Jackson.
The reason emerged on Thursday, in the form a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles against Jackson.
Via Sarah Barshop of ESPN.com, a Philadelphia woman has sued Jackson for recording her without consent during sex. Jackson allegedly refused to delete the video and taunted her with it, per the filing.
An NFL spokesperson referred Barshop to the suspension, declining additional comment.
The suspension without pay cost Jackson $543,333 in pay, based on his 2024 base salary of $4.89 million.
In the lawsuit, the woman contends that she met Jackson on Instagram and visited him in L.A. in May 2024. She claims that he recorded them while having sex. He allegedly efused to delete it, and then allegedly sent it to her after he said that he had deleted it.
She reported the incident to the Los Angeles Police Department. The authorities told her that she would have to return to L.A., if she wanted to file a formal report. She opted to report the situation to the NFL instead.
Barshop explains that the lawsuit seeks compensation for “emotional distress, loss of privacy, and psychological harm,” and alleging violations of gender violence, revenge porn laws, invasion of privacy, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and fraud.
