The Seahawks defense is set to receive some reinforcements with the team announcing that safety Julian Love, DT Jarran Reed, and wide receiver Dareke Young have all been designated to return to practice. Love and Young missed the last five games. Love had an ankle issue, while a quadricep injury sidelined Young.
Reed has missed the last four games due to a hand injury. Now that they are designated to practice from Injured Reserve, the team has 21 days to place each player on the active roster, waive them, or sign them to the 53-man roster.
“It’s great. I know those guys have been working really hard. J-Reed (Jarran) was really just more of a function of letting it heal. I know Julian’s (Love) working his tail off, I believe Dareke Young is a part of that crew as well,’ said Mike Macdonald .” It’d be great to have them out there, we’ll see how it goes. I know we only have a certain amount of time to activate them and we’ll either do it this week or we’ll do it another week.”
A WELCOME BOOST TO THE BACK END
The return of Love will be a welcome boost to the Seahawks’ backline, which is playing good pass defense but now has a chance to improve on its no.11 league ranking. Ty Okada has been the steady replacement for Love, having started the last eight games. Okada has recorded 38 tackles, one quarterback hit, a fumble recovery, and one pass defense. The return of Love would bring a former Pro Bowler ( 2023), an efficient tackler, and communicator. As for when Love would return to the line-up, Macdonald was clear that the team would methodically follow its man.
“We have a plan for him this week in terms of how we’re going to practice him every day, but we feel great about where he’s at. I know he’s really excited and we’ll go from there on how we want to go into the weekend with how he’s going to go. Let’s say everything went perfectly to plan anytime you’re coming off a stretch where you’re not playing, you’ve got to have some sort of ramp back in, so that’s how we’re operating”, said Macdonald.
MORE DEFENSIVE LINE DEPT
While the Seahawks’ defensive line is among the league leaders, the return of Reed will provide competitive depth and talent. The Seahawks’ run defense ranks second in the league. Before the Injury, Reed started two of eight games and recorded 17 tackles, 1.5 sacks and one quarterback hit.
“Another great leader. This team is built on leaders. We just have him in every position group at this point, and just having his presence back is going to mean a lot. Having him in the rotation is going to help a lot as well,’ said Leonard Williams
SPECIAL TEAMS CONTRIBUTOR
Before his injury, Young, a special-teams contributor, set career highs in receiving and kickoff returns. In the New Orleans Saints game, Young had a career-long 60-yard kickoff return. In week five against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Young had a career high 154 return yards on five returns and one reception for 36 yards, which was a career high.
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