The Seahawks may be headed for another preseason night with the starters mostly parked on the sideline.
Seattle held out all expected offensive and defensive starters in last week’s game against the Dallas Cowboys, and there’s a strong case for doing something similar against the Tennessee Titans. The schedule is a big part of it: the Seahawks play Sunday, then turn around for their final preseason game the following Friday. With that kind of short week, it doesn’t make much sense to use both games to work the starters.
If the team is going to give its top players any preseason run, the third game looks like the better choice. That would leave more time afterward for recovery before the regular season begins, giving Seattle a cleaner runway to reset, shake off any minor bumps, and avoid piling on unnecessary wear.
There’s also the matter of what the Seahawks already got done this week. Their joint practice with the Titans gave the starters a chance to work at a much higher level of intensity than a standard practice. That kind of session carries real value, and it may count for enough that the team feels no urgency to expose its biggest names to live game reps just a couple days later.
Meanwhile, the roster battles are still very much alive in the background, and that’s where most of the action figures to be. The offensive line has at least one tight decision to make, maybe two.
The receiver room has become even more crowded after Jake Bobo’s injury, with four or five players competing for two spots. Cornerback depth remains unsettled as well, and the preseason is the perfect place to sort through it all.
So while it wouldn’t be surprising to see a little more from Seattle than it showed against Dallas, the expectation should still be for the second, third, and fourth stringers to carry most of the load against Tennessee. Jadarian Price might play, which would mean at least one more starter than last week, but the main storyline still points the same way: the Seahawks are likely to keep the headliners wrapped up again.
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