Seattle escaped Week 15 with a win, but it could have been a lot easier if they hadn’t made poor choices on the inactives.
So far in the 2025 season the Seattle Seahawks have won five games by 20 or more points, with rookie offensive lineman Bryce Cabeldue playing a key role in each of those victories.
Specifically, Cabeldue has logged offensive snaps in exactly five contests this year, with those five games being:
- Week 3 vs the New Orleans Saints (44-13)
- Week 9 vs the Washington Commanders (38-14)
- Week 10 vs the Arizona Cardinals (44-22)
- Week 13 vs the Minnesota Vikings (26-0)
- Week 14 vs the Atlanta Falcons (37-9)
Cabeldue’s absence on offense has been glaring in the other nine games the Seahawks have played, with the team failing to win any of those games by 20 or more points, and even losing three of those matchups.
Thus, whether or not the showdown Sunday with the Indianapolis Colts in Week 15 action was destined to be a close game as soon as the Seahawks announced their inactives for the game.
In any case, if Mike Macdonald wants to play the game on All Madden mode by keeping Cabeldue on the sideline, as head coach that’s his right to do so, even if it makes the lives of fans more stressful on Sunday afternoons.
As for the Seahawks who did play, it was Jalen Sundell reprising his role as the starting center after returning from injured reserve, with Olu Oluwatimi not even seeing the field on special teams after having started the last four games. Sundell at center meant those fans who had hoped that he could come back and play right guard and send Anthony Bradford to the bench were disappointed to once again watch Bradford play every offensive snap for the Seahawks.
Also notable as the end of the season rapidly approaches is that in the wake of Eric Saubert’s recent contract extension, Brady Russell handled the fullback duties with Robbie Ouzts a healthy scratch and A.J. Barner and Nick Kallerup taking the tight end snaps in Elijah Arroyo’s absence.
On the defensive side, Julian Love continued to work his way back into a starting workload, playing 49 of 60 defensive snaps, while Ty Okada saw his playing time reduced to just 11 snaps. In addition, after coming off the nonfootball injury list, rookie defensive lineman Rylie Mills saw the field for the first seven snaps of his NFL career, though he did not record any box score stats.
On special teams it was, as it is every Sunday, the Brady Russell and Mike Morris show, with D’Anthony Bell, Velus Jones and Patrick O’Connell also logging 20 or more special teams snaps.
Also, perhaps worthy of note is the fact that three members that make up the middle of the 2024 Seahawks draft class, third rounder Christian Haynes, fourth rounder Tyrice Knight and fifth rounder Nehemiah Pritchett only saw the field on special teams.
And now it’s on to the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football for all the marbles.
Category: General Sports
