“I would say we’re optimistic,” Macdonald said Monday afternoon when asked about Witherspoon and Emmanwori. “Anytime you’re talking about possibly going into a game without practicing, that’s a dangerous game to play, not one we want to play consistently. With Spoon, he’s probably a guy that we’d be more inclined to do that with, and probably not so much with Nick. Nick probably needs more reps than Spoon right now. But we’ll see, we’ll see how it goes on Wednesday and Thursday with those two.”
Earlier in the day during his weekly appearance on Seattle Sports 710AM, Macdonald said of Witherspoon, “Hopefully he’ll practice at some point, he’s probably still a guy you could take all the way to the game, but that’s not really a great model to abide by.”
On Emmanwori, Macdonald said, “We’ll see here. We’ll see if he’s ready on Wednesday or possibly Thursday to get some reps.”
As for new injuries coming out of the game, Macdonald said the injury report Wednesday might not be as clean as they hoped after the game when it initially looked like a mostly clean game, injury wise.
“I don’t have a full update,” he said. “We had some things pop up this morning, so I’ll probably have more info for you on Wednesday or Thursday as the week plays out, but it wasn’t as clean as we initially anticipated.”
The only player who left the game due to injury was center Jalen Sundell, though Macdonald said Sunday that was due to cramps. Outside linebacker Derick Hall was also slow to get up after a low block late in the game, but Macdonald said, “D-Hall, from what I understand, he just got nicked up right there at the end, and I think he’s OK. I don’t know exactly what’s going on with him.”
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