The Seahawks were back in action Sunday following a day off, beginning their week of preparation for their final preseason game, and the practice marked the return of quarterback Drew Lock, who had been out since testing positive for COVID-19 last Tuesday.
More on Lock’s return, the quarterback competition and other notes from Sunday’s practice:
1. Drew Lock was back & splitting time with Geno Smith with the No. 1 offense.
After missing most of last week, including a preseason game he was otherwise going to start, due to COVID-19, Lock was back in action Sunday and was splitting time with Geno Smith running the No. 1 offense.
“He did OK today, he seemed to bounce back,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. “He’s six, seven days into it now so he’s in good shape as far as getting back. But you never know until you get out there and start running around. He hung in there, tough, so that’s good.”
Last week it was clear from watching a practice in which Lock took all of the first-team reps that he was in line to start the upcoming game after Smith had been with the No. 1 offense throughout camp up to that point. It was less clear, however, what the plan this week will be given the way Lock and Smith split time with the starters.
Carroll for now isn’t divulging his plan at quarterback this week other than to joke with the media, “I’ll talk to you more about it later in the week, or I won’t. I’m not sure.”
Carroll did make it clear, however, that Lock will get significant playing time against Dallas, regardless of who starts.
“I still need to see him play and need to see him fit in with our guys and all that,” Carroll said. “He’s done really well through now just though the opportunity was going to be there. Even though I knew the preparation for it wasn’t great (with a Thursday game). It just wasn’t adequate for the prep of a guy that wants to start his first chance to start a game, we’ll see how he goes this week, and I plan on him playing a lot a lot this week.”
As for the timeline on deciding on a starter, Carroll maintained that he is not in a hurry to make that decision.
“I’m going to take the time it takes to figure it out and make sure we have all the information that we need,” he said. “I can’t wait to see what happens in this game. Geno’s done a good job and Geno needs a little more help from some guys—they got to be able to catch the football a little better—but he’s handled it well. You go back, Drew has had three drives and had two touchdown drives, so…
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