RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks activated security Jamal Adams off the bodily unable to carry out listing Thursday, a major step in his return from surgical procedure to restore a torn quad tendon.
Adams will not be able to apply but, however coming off PUP permits him to take part within the slower paced morning walk-throughs. The Seahawks progressively introduced again cornerback Riq Woolen and linebacker Jordyn Brooks in comparable trend this summer time.
“It is a good step for him … as he is getting ready to get again,” coach Pete Carroll stated of Adams. “We take a look at these weeks, they go by rapidly now, and if he would proceed to remain on PUP, he would not be capable to get any of our soccer work. So, he’ll soar into the routine like we have been doing with our guys like walk-throughs and issues like that, so he can begin to break the huddle with the fellas and make the calls and get aligned and make the changes and all that and get his thoughts rolling in that path.”
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Woolen and Brooks are each anticipated to be prepared by the Seahawks’ Sept. 10 season opener in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams, however Adams’ standing for that sport remains to be in query. Carroll stated there isn’t any sense of strain to get him again by then. With Adams coming off his damage on the heels of a down season in 2021, the Seahawks signed former New York Giants starter Julian Like to a two-year, $12 million deal in March as a short-term fill-in possibility and a possible long-term alternative.
“We’re working with him and the docs and the trainers and all that,” Carroll stated of Adams. “That is what’s vital to me. I do not care when it’s. It is simply when he will get again. I need him to really feel proper and assured and imagine within the course of that bought him there, and we’re not going to hurry him in any respect.”
Adams, acquired in a blockbuster commerce with the New York Jets in 2020, set a single season report for a defensive again with 9.5 sacks in 12 video games that 12 months. He did not report a sack in 2021 earlier than his season resulted in December due to a torn shoulder labrum. He missed virtually all of final season after taking place within the first half of the opener.
“He is labored actually exhausting,” Carroll stated. “Once more, I let you know guys, in case you watched him work out you’d by no means know there was something unsuitable. However he is nonetheless making an attempt to make his strengths and get every little thing as much as max. We will do it completely. We will wait it out and ensure that we actually handle him.”
Carroll didn’t present any additional readability on whether or not extensive receivers Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Dareke Younger will probably be prepared by Week 1. Smith-Njigba, the twentieth general decide this 12 months, had surgical procedure earlier this week to restore a wrist fracture.
“I have not heard any phrase for the reason that surgical procedure aside from that what they initially stated that every little thing went nice,” Carroll stated of Smith-Njigba on Thursday. “They confirmed us the photographs and all that type of stuff, so we noticed that. It is an elaborate surgical procedure for such a small crack … however it’ll be so protected. We’re actually happy with it and so is he.”
Younger left city earlier this week to see a specialist who would decide whether or not he wants surgical procedure for a groin damage. Carroll stated Younger has not returned to the group and that he hadn’t heard again on whether or not the receiver was having surgical procedure.
Cody Thompson, who’s combating for one of many ultimate receiver spots, stays out with a shoulder damage and is not anticipated to play within the Seahawks’ preseason finale in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers, per Carroll.
Cornerback Devon Witherspoon is on observe to get again to apply subsequent week, per Carroll. Witherspoon, the group’s 2023 fifth general decide, re-injured his hamstring Aug. 7 and returned to walk-throughs earlier this week.
