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Uchenna Nwosu activated from injured reserve by Seattle Seahawks
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – OCTOBER 06: Uchenna Nwosu #10 of the Seattle Seahawks looks on before the game against the New York Giants at Lumen Field on October 06, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. The New York Giants won 29-20. (Alika Jenner / Getty Images)
RENTON, Wash. – The Seattle Seahawks activated pass rusher Uchenna Nwosu from injured reserve on Thursday after a seven-game absence with a torn left thigh.
Nwosu has appeared in just one game this season for Seattle. A knee injury sustained in the team’s final preseason game against the Cleveland Browns on a questionable block from guard Wyatt Teller sidelined Nwosu for the first four games of the season. Upon returning to action against the New York Giants in Week 5, Nwosu played just 20 snaps before the thigh injury again took him out of the lineup.
“It’s been tough,” Nwosu said. “Pretty much my whole career I’ve dealt with little injuries there, but nothing that’s kept me out for this long.
“I feel like it’s really things that has kind of been out of my control, especially with the knee injury that I had. And then one thing leads to another, so who knows? Kind of just refiguring myself out and just trusting my process and knowing that I know my career is going to be great. I’m going to still be the same player I am and just continue to trust myself.”
Nwosu was critical of the play Teller made that injured his knee back in August.
“I thought it was dirty, straight up,” he said. “I didn’t like it. It’s preseason. We were going to be there like two drives. But, it’s football. I get it, it’s football at the end of the day. But, it was definitely a dirty play.”
Nwosu said that he’d have a problem with the block even if it wasn’t preseason, too.
“I know you’re allowed to cut, but the way you cut you can’t do it going back towards your own end zone, and that’s what he did to me, so that’s what made it dirty,” Nwosu said.
After he tore his thigh in October, doctors said the injury wouldn’t require surgery. It just meant he had a lengthy wait before he’d be able to return to action. Nwosu said he believes he’ll be ready to play as much as needed for the Seahawks in Arizona on Sunday.
“That’s what I’m preparing for. That’s a coach’s decision at the end of the day. That’s out of my control, but I’m preparing to be able to play,” he said.
Nwosu was also announced to be the Seahawks’ Walker Payton Man of the Year Award nominee on Thursday for excellence on the field and in the community.
“It means a lot. To be able to be recognized for everything that I’m doing is great, but still a lot of work to be done and just want to keep it going. But, definitely thankful, grateful, and just keep it going,” Nwosu said.
Roster Moves:
The Seahawks claimed wide receiver/kick returner Jaelon Darden off waivers from the Cleveland Browns on Thursday and waived cornerback/kick returner Dee Williams to open a roster spot.
Darden has spent four years in the NFL with stops with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Browns prior to his arrival in Seattle. He’s appeared in 31 career games with just a lone start this year with Cleveland. He has nine receptions for 75 yards as receiver, but most of his time has come as a returner.
He has 78 career punt returns for 760 yards, and 27 kickoff returns for 565 yards. He doesn’t have a fumble, which was the issue last Sunday in New York for the Seahawks with three total fumbles, two of which were lost, between Williams and Laviska Shenault Jr.
Shenault signed with the Los Angeles Chargers practice squad on Thursday after being waived by Seattle on Monday.
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We survived it last year, barely, but now we’re in for several “months of Hell” as closures of northbound I-5 across the Ship Canal Bridge return.
You deserve a pat on the back if you survived the “month of Hell” between July and August last summer.
You might need therapy to survive what’s about to happen.
Four ‘months of hell’ inbound
Four “months of Hell” will start this weekend with a full closure of northbound I-5 from downtown Seattle to University District. The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) needs the weekend to set up a work zone across the Ship Canal Bridge.
Come next Monday, the two left lanes of the northbound Ship Canal Bridge will be closed 24/7, and this is going to last for four months.
I spoke with Tom Pearce, a communications specialist for WSDOT, about the upcoming work last year.
“We will work for about four months, and then we will pause and pick everything up when the World Cup comes to town,” Pearce said. “When the World Cup ends, we will have another weekend-long closure, reset the work zone, and then we’ll start to work on the right lanes of the northbound Ship Canal Bridge.”
And that will come with a second four-month chunk of lane closures.
I’m not sure if you remember just how bad these similar closures were for that one month last summer, but it was absolutely brutal.
To help with the traffic flow, WSDOT kept the I-5 express lanes open in the northbound direction the entire time. The rationale is that it is the direction of travel of the closures.
What that created was a daily one-hour delay, or more, for southbound I-5 drivers. Tens of thousands of southbound drivers use those express lanes every morning, and with that option gone, they had to stay in the main line, creating a daily five-mile backup to the Edmonds exit down to Northgate.
“We know that it was difficult for travelers, particularly for southbound in the morning on I-5,” Pearce said. “People did well at adapting and using other transportation methods and adjusting their schedules. It went relatively well.”
WSDOT is using all the data it collected during that month of closures and is using to help with congestion this time around.
Here’s the setup going forward
Northbound I-5 will be closed through the downtown corridor all weekend. When it reopens on Monday, only the right two lanes will be open until June 5. That weekend, the entire northbound freeway will be closed to remove the work zone.
The work will take a break during the World Cup until July 10. Then, northbound I-5 will be reduced to just two left lanes until the end of the year. The end date hasn’t been released. It was originally scheduled to wrap up in November.
This is going to cause significant delays around Seattle. My best advice is to alter your schedule and get on the road at least an hour earlier than normal.
And if you think you’ll just jump on the light rail out of Lynnwood to avoid the backup, you’re going to need a plan. That parking lot is full by 7 a.m. most mornings. It will likely be filled earlier than that going forward.
Chris Sullivan is a traffic reporter for KIRO Newsradio. Read more of his stories here. Follow KIRO Newsradio traffic on X.
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