The Seattle Seahawks’ trip to face the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday puts a spotlight on Abraham Lucas, and Brock Huard thinks the right side of Seattle’s line needs its best version of him.
Lucas, the Everett native who starred at Archbishop Murphy and then at Washington State, has become a familiar name for Seahawks fans when he’s been available. The 28-year-old was a steady presence as a rookie after Seattle took him in the third round in 2022, starting all 16 games he played that season.
Injuries then cut into his next two years, with Lucas missing more than half of the games in both 2023 and 2024. Since last season, though, he has been on the field for all 29 Seahawks games, playoffs included.
That run will be tested Sunday by Maxx Crosby, the Raiders’ edge rusher and a perennial Pro Bowler who leads Las Vegas with four sacks this season. Huard expects Crosby to be a major part of the matchup.
“Obviously Maxx Crosby is a guy you’ve got to deal with,” said Huard, a former NFL quarterback and longtime FOX football broadcaster. “He’s a leading sacker.
(Crosby’s sack total is) not prodigious as they’ve been in the past with his numbers, he’s not on pace for a double-digit sack season. But he’s still an unbelievably high effort guy that you’ve got to account for on the edge.”
Lucas has stayed off Seattle’s injury report all season, but Huard said the lineman still looks a little different to him this year.
“I would use the word lumbering. It just feels lumbering,” Huard said.
“… There’s nobody we watch more in the offseason, at least me, with all of his videos that he posts than Abe Lucas. He loves to train.
He loves to lift heavy. He loves to do all that stuff.
But between the long journey of last season, some of that heavy lifting, he looks a little lumbering.”
With the Seahawks headed into their bye after the game in Vegas, Huard sees Sunday as a chance for Lucas to build some momentum.
“It’s time for big Abe to get going. … I’d like to see the Abe Lucas that we got to see through a lot of the last three or four years, especially as he got healthy. … So I would like to see Abe Lucas play his best game before the bye, play a little cleaner, play a little faster, and be the impactful force that we have seen for years there at right tackle.”
Brock Huard answers three football questions during the Blue 88 segment, which airs at 7:45 a.m. weekdays on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk.
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