With safety Jamal Adams and cornerback Quinton Dunbar eliminated of Sundays video game due to injuries, and with 3 other protective backs noted as questionable, the Seahawks included depth to their secondary a day ahead of their Week 4 game at Miami, elevating security Damarious Randall and cornerback Gavin Heslop off of the practice team.
In addition to having Adams out with a groin injury, security Lano Hill is questionable with a back injury that kept him out of last weeks video game, and he did not practice Friday. Ryan Neal, who was just recently promoted from the practice squad, is the likely starter at strong safety provided Hills unpredictable status, and if Hill isnt able to play, that would make Randall the only readily available backup security behind Quandre Diggs and Neal other than Ugo Amadi, who is Seattles top nickel defensive back with Marquise Blair on injured reserve.
Heslop signed with the Seahawks as an undrafted totally free agent out of Stony Brook following the draft, and after being waived as part of the cutdown to 53 players, he was signed to the practice team.
” Hes a truly smart football player, played a lot of ball,” Carroll said after Fridays practice. “He could help us if we require him.”
Randall, a 2015 first-round pick, has actually started 56 profession games for the Packers and Browns, playing both safety and cornerback. Randall, who has 14 interceptions, 47 passes defensed and 290 tackles in his career, only signed up with Seattles practice team on Wednesday, but Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said the veteran protective back is prepared to play if called upon.
At cornerback, Dunbar is out due to a knee injury, while Shaquill Griffin and Neiko Thorpe are both doubtful, though Carroll said Griffin ought to be excellent to go. If Thorpe is not able to play Heslop would offer depth at cornerback together with Linden Stephens, who was promoted from the practice squad earlier this month.
As a pointer, a new 2020 rule allows 2 gamers to be raised from the practice squad without a matching relocation, meaning the Seahawks have for the weekend a 55-player lineup from which to pick their 48 active gamers Sunday. Randall and Heslop will go back to the practice squad on Monday.
