Joe Mixon may not be joining the Seahawks, but the club is still adding a running back.
Seattle announced on Tuesday that Robert Henry has joined the 53-man roster off of Washington’s practice squad.
An undrafted rookie out of UTSA, Henry has not yet appeared in a regular season game.
As a corresponding move, the Seahawks have waived safety AJ Finley.
Additionally, Seattle announced running back Jacardia Wright has been placed on practice squad injured reserve.
The Seahawks needed some more depth at running back with rookie Jadarian Price going on injured reserve.
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The Commanders’ loss in London to the Colts had nothing to do with a lack of fan support.
Via Nathan Brown of the Indianapolis Star, the neutral-site game for which the Commanders were the designated home team was dominated by Commanders fans.
“I think out of all the teams I’ve played overseas, [the Commanders] is the fanbase that traveled the best that I’ve seen,” Colts safety Camryn Bynum said. “Maybe that’s because they’re on the east coast, and so it’s a closer flight?
“But it is still six hours for them, so I don’t know. They did travel really well.”
Usually, international games feature an eclectic mix of NFL jerseys and colors. As explained by Brown, the crowd in excess of 60,000 consisted largely of maroon.
It didn’t make a difference for the Commanders, who lost the game 30-13. But that may have had something to do with the loss of backup quarterback Marcus Mariota to a knee injury, which pressed seventh-round rookie Athan Kaliakmanis into extended duty.
If Jayden Daniels is not ready to play in Week 5, rookie Athan Kaliakmanis may get more playing time.
According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, quarterback Marcus Mariota suffered an MCL sprain during Sunday’s loss to the Colts.
Mariota previously suffered an MCL sprain during the preseason.
Mariota went down during the first quarter of Sunday’s game in London and was not able to return. That came after Mariota was able to beat the defending-champion Seahawks in Week 3. In his three appearances with two starts this season, Mariota has completed 64.7 percent of his passes for 340 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions.
Kaliakmanis completed 15-of-33 passes for 186 yards with a touchdown and an interception on Sunday.
As PFT reported on Sunday night, the Commanders are hopeful that Daniels will be able to play in Sunday’s game against the Giants. But practice participation will be a key factor in Daniels’ return from a dislocated left elbow. Daniels was limited in practice on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last week.
The ankle injury that knocked Commanders wide receiver Jaylin Lane out of Sunday’s loss to the Colts in Europe is reportedly just as severe as it appeared to be on the field.
Lane was carted off the field and ruled out almost immediately after being injured while returning a punt in the third quarter. Lane remained in London on Sunday night for further evaluation and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that he sustained both a fracture and a dislocation.
Those injuries have been stabilized and Lane is having more tests done before he will return to the United States. The injury is likely a season-ending one for the 2025 fourth-round pick.
Lane had two catches for 25 yards, but was playing a bigger role in the return game. He returned a pair of punts for touchdowns as a rookie, but it looks like he will have to wait until 2027 for a shot at adding to that total.
Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota is believed to have an MCL sprain. That increases the urgency to get starter Jayden Daniels back from a dislocated elbow.
The Commanders are hopeful, we’re told, that Daniels will be able to play next weekend against the Giants.
One key factor will be Daniels’s ability to fully participate in practice. He got some team reps this week, when he was limited in practice on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
If neither Daniels nor Mariota can go, seventh-round rookie Athan Kaliakmanis will get his first career start. It was a little rough at first, but a 47-yard touchdown pass to receiver Treylon Burks cut the score to 17-13 in the third quarter.
It was all Colts after that, dropping the Commanders to 1-3. Sunday’s game against the 3-1 Giants becomes critical to any effort by the Commanders to turn things around.
The Commanders were down to their third-string quarterback today in London, and although rookie Athan Kaliakmanis showed some arm strength, it was the Colts’ running game that controlled the game.
Jonathan Taylor ran for two touchdowns, Daniel Jones ran for another, and the Colts beat the Commanders 30-13.
With first-string quarterback Jayden Daniels out because of an elbow injury, backup Marcus Mariota started for the Commanders. But Mariota had to leave in the first quarter with a knee injury, and that left it to Kaliakmanis to run the show the rest of the way.
Kaliakmanis did make some big plays, with completions of 48 and 47 yards as well as an 87-yard touchdown called back by a penalty, but he couldn’t do enough and the Colts controlled the game throughout.
Mariota wasn’t the only Commanders player lost to injury. Commanders wide receiver Jaylin Lane had to be carted off the field after suffering an ankle injury on a kickoff return and was quickly ruled out for the rest of the game.
The Colts improve to 2-2 with the win, but questions remain about Jones, who was not impressive throwing the ball. Jones went 19-for-34 for 143 yards, with no touchdown passes, an interception and a lost fumble.
The Commanders fall to 1-3, and they’re in a tough place, with no word yet on who their starting quarterback will be when they face the Giants next week. If Daniels can’t return to the field and return to the level of play he showed as a rookie two years ago, the Commanders’ season could spiral in a hurry.
The Commanders are struggling, and quarterback Marcus Mariota isn’t coming back to save them.
Mariota was confirmed out for the rest of today’s game against the Colts after suffering a knee injury early in the game.
According to the NFL Network broadcast, Commanders head coach Dan Quinn said Mariota re-injured the MCL in his right knee, which previously had to be surgically repaired in 2022.
It’s not clear how serious the injury is, but Quinn said the team is “gutted” for Mariota.
Seventh-round rookie Athan Kaliakmanis is now in at quarterback for the Commanders, and he’s playing about the way you’d expect a third-string seventh-round rookie to play. He’s currently 6-for-14 for 33 yards with an interception that set up Jonathan Taylor’s second touchdown of the game in the third quarter.
It’s 17-6 Colts in the third quarter, and this one could get ugly for the Commanders.
The Commanders’ offense is down to its third-string quarterback, and it shows.
Rookie Athan Kaliakmanis is now running Washington’s offense after Marcus Mariota exited today’s game with a knee injury. Starter Jayden Daniels is not active today because of an elbow injury. The Colts lead 10-6 at halftime.
The offense, which was moving the ball well with Mariota, has sputtered with Kaliakmanis. It hasn’t been all his fault; there have been major protection breakdowns that have had Kaliakmanis throwing under pressure.
The Colts’ offense hasn’t been very good, either, and doesn’t have a third-string quarterback to blame. Starter Daniel Jones has looked mostly awful today, although the Colts did score on one drive, with Jonathan Taylor running for a touchdown. That drive was aided by a highly questionable unnecessary roughness penalty on Washington’s Amik Robertson after the Commanders appeared to have a third-down stop.
The Commanders are going to have to find a way to protect Kaliakmanis, and the Colts have to hope that Jones can shake off his ugly start.
The Commanders are down to their third-string quarterback.
Second-string quarterback Marcus Mariota started today against the Colts in London because Jayden Daniels has an elbow injury, but in the first quarter Mariota was injured and walked to the locker room, replaced by third-stringer Athan Kaliakmanis.
The Commanders said Mariota is questionable to return with a right knee injury, which he suffered when Colts defensive lineman Laiatu Latu landed on Mariota’s lower right leg and bent it awkwardly.
Kaliakmanis is a seventh-round rookie who played his college football at Rutgers and Minnesota.
Colts quarterback Daniel Jones has had an ugly start in London today.
On the Colts’ first play, Jones threw a pass that was batted down at the line of scrimmage. On the Colts’ second play, Jones was sacked by Washington’s Odafe Oweh, forcing a fumble that Oweh recovered.
The Commanders took over in great field position at the 21-yard line but couldn’t gain a first down and settled for a 31-yard field Drew Stevens goal.
It’s 3-0 Commanders, just two minutes into the game.
