The excellent news for the Seattle Seahawks is that exterior linebacker Uchenna Nwosu’s knee harm isn’t going to finish his season.
The unhealthy information is he’s most likely going to overlook not less than the primary month.
NFL insider Ian Rapoport wrote on Monday that Nwosu’s harm “will trigger him to overlook a number of weeks and make him a candidate to start 2024 on injured reserve.”
ESPN’s Adam Schefter says that Nwosu sprained his MCL, which may put him out for so long as six weeks.
Seattle’s high edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu suffered a sprained MCL and is now anticipated to overlook wherever between two and 6 weeks, per supply. pic.twitter.com/dZjC4giqjr
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 26, 2024
Nwosu harm his knee in Saturday’s preseason finale towards the Cleveland Browns. A reduce block from Browns beginning proper guard Wyatt Teller took out Nwosu’s standing leg, leading to a chop block penalty since Nwosu was additionally engaged with operating again Jerome Ford.
The Seahawks wouldn’t have any media availability on Monday, so we’ll get the official phrase quickly sufficient.
It is a huge blow to a Seahawks move rush that wasn’t significantly deep to start with. Nwosu missed a lot of final yr with a torn pec, which coincided with a serious downturn in Seattle’s defensive efficiency. The Seahawks traded away veteran Darrell Taylor to the Chicago Bears, however successfully changed him by buying Trevis Gipson from the Tennessee Titans earlier today.
Derick Corridor, Boye Mafe, Dre’Mont Jones, and Gipson will presumably be the quartet transferring ahead till Nwosu returns from harm. We’ll see if Seattle stashes a fifth OLB/EDGE within the type of UDFA Jamie Sheriff.
It’s price noting that in years previous, Nwosu would’ve needed to make the preliminary 53-man roster earlier than getting positioned on IR with a return designation. A 2024 rule change made it in order that as much as two gamers might be positioned on an relevant reserve listing “on the enterprise day of the ultimate roster discount to be designated for return.”
So anticipate Nwosu to be positioned on IR on Tuesday. He would then miss a minimal of 4 video games, which given this can be a 2-6 week harm, would most likely give him a shot to return in Week 6 on Thursday Evening Soccer towards the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 10. Nwosu can be eligible to return off IR earlier than Week 5 towards the New York Giants.
