Seahawks LB out for season

The Seahawks might be with out considered one of their prime move rushers for the remainder of the season. Whereas Pete Carroll stated earlier on Monday (through the Seattle Instances’ Bob Condotta) that Uchenna Nwosu suffered a pectoral pressure and would miss time, a later replace confirmed an extended restoration timetable.

Nwosu will want season-ending surgical procedure to restore the difficulty, ESPN’s Adam Schefter stories. This information comes practically three months after Nwosu signed a three-year, $45M extension to remain in Seattle by 2026.

Final season rewarded the Seahawks for a midlevel funding on the sting; Nwsou posted 9.5 sacks and notched 26 quarterback hits. The Seahawks had given the ex-Joey Bosa Chargers sidekick a two-year, $19.1M deal in free company. Regardless of by no means ending a season with greater than 5 sacks in Los Angeles, Nwosu hit the bottom working in Seattle, making a giant distinction within the workforce securing a wild-card berth regardless of the Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner departures.

Nwosu ended up passing on the possibility to make use of this season as a platform for a 2024 free company audition, opting to signal an early extension that locks him down all through the mid-2020s. That now seems like a wise transfer. The Seahawks assured Nwosu, 26, $16.6M at signing, in line with OverTheCap. Nwosu will see an extra $6M assured, with cash transferring from an damage assure to a full assure, in February 2024. That represents a part of his 2025 wage ($14.48M).

Though the Bolts selected Nwosu within the 2018 second spherical, they stored their Bosa-Melvin Ingrampair in place for a lot of the USC alum’s rookie contract. Ingram didn’t transfer on till 2021, and the Chargers bumped Nwosu into their beginning lineup. Nwosu notched 17 QB hits that season, displaying some upside through the five-sack contract yr. That was sufficient for the Seahawks, who had been within the course of of reworking their protection to a 3-4 look below then-new DC Clint Hurtt.

Hurtt’s unit struggled in his first season, rating twenty fifth in factors allowed. The Seahawks operated extra aggressively this offseason, including Dre’Mont Jones and bringing again Wagner to exchange the departed Cody Barton. The workforce has additionally used second-round picks on edge gamers in every of the previous two years, drafting Boye Mafe in 2022 and Derick Corridor this yr. This gave Seattle a uncommon four-second-rounder OLB corps. Each Mafe and Corridor arrived through picks obtained within the Wilson commerce, and every will turn out to be a extra distinguished determine within the wake of Nwosu’s damage.

This yr, Hurtt’s protection ranks twelfth in scoring and yards allowed; Mafe has taken a step ahead, together with his 4 sacks tied for the workforce lead. The workforce additionally rosters Darrell Taylor, a 2020 second-round choose who fared effectively final season (9.5 sacks). Taylor has solely began one sport this yr, working in a rotational function behind Nwosu and Mafe, however ought to now have an opportunity to log extra enjoying time in a pivotal stretch for his incomes potential.