{"id":33710,"date":"2025-09-12T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/seahawks-depleted-on-defense-against-steelers-witherspoon-and-emmanwori-out\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:51:15","slug":"seahawks-depleted-on-defense-against-steelers-witherspoon-and-emmanwori-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/seahawks-depleted-on-defense-against-steelers-witherspoon-and-emmanwori-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks, depleted on defense against Steelers: Witherspoon and Emmanwori out"},"content":{"rendered":"Renton, Wash. &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks are preparing for a crucial matchup against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, with a depleted secondary affected by injuries.The team will face Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf, which represents a considerable challenge for the defense.<h2>Key Departures in High School<\/h2>Devon Witherspoon, the Pro Bowl cornerback, is questionable due to a knee injury. Meanwhile, rookie safety Nick Emmanwori is ruled out with a high ankle sprain.Although Julian Love is expected to play, a groin injury kept him out of practice on Thursday and limited him during the week.<h2>Important Return in Defense<\/h2>Uchenna Nwosu, the outside linebacker, will make his debut in 2025 after missing much of the preseason and the first game due to knee surgery.However, the Seahawks&#8217; secondary will be affected by absences.<h2>Injury Details<\/h2>Witherspoon was injured in the middle of the last quarter in the loss to the San Francisco 49ers and was unable to practice during the week.Coach Mike Macdonald believes Witherspoon&#8217;s injury won&#8217;t be long-term.Emmanwori, a second-round selection, was injured on the first series of the game. The team hopes he can return within four weeks, although Macdonald isn&#8217;t sure about that.Regarding Riq Woolen, the coach did not confirm whether he will start against Pittsburgh after some setbacks in the previous game.Nwosu, who took a pay cut to stay with the Seahawks, could have a play count limit on Sunday.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We&#8217;ll see how many plays, but Chenna will make his debut. We are very excited. He has been working hard, practicing very well. I am very happy for him because of the work he has done.<\/p><cite>Mike Macdonald, Seahawks Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renton, Wash. &#8211; The Seattle Seahawks are preparing for a crucial matchup against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, with a depleted secondary affected by injuries.The team will face Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf, which represents a considerable challenge for the defense. Key Departures in High School Devon Witherspoon, the Pro Bowl cornerback, is questionable due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[355,84,1070,8650],"class_list":{"0":"post-33710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-injuries","9":"tag-seahawks","10":"tag-steelers","11":"tag-witherspoon"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}