The No. 5 overall pick had no restrictions in his first NFL game.
Having missed all of preseason and Week 1 of the regular season with a hamstring injury, Devon Witherspoon was ready to go in his debut. He was one of only four Seahawks defensive players to play all 66 snaps on Sunday, alongside Bobby Wagner, Quandre Diggs, and Julian Love. Witherspoon had 5 tackles, a pass defensed on 4th down, and some ups and downs that you should expect from a debutant who didn’t really have a training camp.
Derick Hall had another 24 snaps on defense and 12 on special teams, while nose tackle Cameron Young saw his snap count increase to 17 in Mike Morris’ absence. With no Devin Bush, the Seahawks opted not to have anyone other than Brooks or Wagner at inside linebacker, so Drake Thomas and Jon Rhattigan were only special teams players.
On offense, Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 40 of 72 snaps, so it’s just about in line with the snap count rate he had in his debut against the. He saw a little more involvement in the form of 5 catches for 34 yards, including an important 3rd down conversion on a scramble drill. But I also want to draw attention to the fact that due to an Evan Brown knee tweak, we saw rookie center Olu Oluwatimi get his first NFL action. He played six snaps in Brown’s absence, and one of those snaps was the 1st quarter touchdown run by Kenneth Walker. It was all hat-on-hat blocking and Oluwatimi won his matchup.
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