RENTON, Wash. – With injuries piling up in the secondary, the Seattle Seahawks will be without starters Riq Woolen and Tre Brown when they square off with the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, leaving the team incredibly short-handed on the road against one of the top offenses in the NFL.
But while the Seahawks will have to weather the storm without Woolen, Brown, and Artie Burns, who landed on injured reserve on Tuesday with a toe injury, coach Mike Macdonald thinks highly of the team’s depth at the cornerback position, which will be put to the ultimate test dealing with an explosive Falcons attack featuring Kirk Cousins and a stable of talented receivers in Drake London, Darnell Mooney, and Kyle Pitts.
With injuries comes opportunity in the NFL, and among those who will be called upon to help pick up the slack with Seattle down three veteran corners, rookie Nehemiah Pritchett will make his first career start and Josh Jobe and Faion Hicks will make their team debuts as practice squad elevations, providing the chance to impress in a tough road environment.
“We’ll make a couple of moves tomorrow,” Macdonald said on Friday, offering more clarity than usual on practice squad call ups on a travel day. “Faion [Hicks] will come up. Josh Jobe will come up and play. The other guys on the roster will get a great opportunity to go out there and show what they can do. I’m excited to see them play.”…