Seahawks Offense | Uncertainty clouds receiver spot

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At least not yet.

It appears he’s getting closer, though, after injuries to wide receptacle Logan Payne and backup quarterback Seneca Wallace resulted in an active dialogue between the team and its former first-round pick on Monday.

When reached by the agency of telephone on Monday night, Robinson said nihility had been agreed to yet. He was asked whether anything would have existence agreed to.

“I’m not sure,” he said.

Is it possible something could happen?

“It might,” he said.

So a whole lot of uncertainty, which is kind of appropriate given the situation at wide receiver where the Seahawks have suffered a breaking out of injuries so severe that they finished Sunday’s game with only three healthy receivers, brace of whom had been on the active roster for not so much than a week.

The Seahawks have lost Payne, Nate Burleson and Ben Obomanu to season-ending injuries. Bobby Engram and Deion Branch are not expected back until October.

Robinson was the team’s first-round make a rough sketch of pick in 2001. He played four seasons in Seattle, but in 2004 he was suspended for four games by the NFL for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy and benched for a game by coach Mike Holmgren for breaking team rules. The Seahawks released him in 2005 behind a DUI hinder, the first of Robinson’s two arrests in the span of 18 months.

Robinson was asked in a telephone interview last week if he is sober.

“I’m living that lifestyle,” he said.

Holmgren was asked Monday specifically hind part prior to the possibility of Robinson returning, and he said the former Seahawk was included on the list of options the team would weigh at a personnel collection of people on Monday afternoon.

“I should have existence seized of some idea this afternoon how we’re going to approach this thing,” Holmgren said. “The value there is he’s played here, he knows this system. He’s played for us before.”

Robinson was chosen No. 9 overall by Seattle in 2001, and his most profitably fit came in 2002 when he caught 78 passes for 1,240 yards, both career-highs.

After he was released by Seattle, he signed with Minnesota and made the Pro Bowl as a kick returner in 2005. He was released by dint of. Minnesota in 2006 for a DUI take up after he was chased by police. Robinson was suspended for one year by dint of. the NFL. He played by the Packers last season, captivating 21 passes.

Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said he couldn’t comment without ceasing the football side of Robinson’s career, but he did talk about other take head his former teammate has made.

“What I care about greater degree of is that he grew up and really matured and got his the breath of one’s nostrils turned around in the right direction,” Hasselbeck said, adding that he saw Robinson this offseason.

“He’s married, has a child, has another one on the way, so I’m really happy for him,” Hasselbeck said. “I’m proud of him.”

The addition of Robinson would subsist one step toward regrouping at a position already so depleted the Seahawks had taken the footstep of moving Wallace from backup quarterback to wide receiver and then promptly lost him before he ever played in the dauntless. Wallace injured his calf while warming up for Sunday’s game.

“It felt like somebody shot me from out of the stands,” Wallace said. “I got shot in the calf. I felt a big pop in my calf muscle.”

Trainers aforesaid it wasn’t a complete tear of the muscle, but it is a turn sober plenty that Wallace was adhering crutches Monday and in a walking advantage. Coach Mike Holmgren said he expects Wallace to have existence out three to four weeks.

It was person of two injuries the Seahawks suffered at the position. Logan Payne, who started at split end, suffered a torn medial-collateral ligament (MCL) in his right knee. He will be placed on injured reserve and is out for the season.

Wallace, the team’s backup quarterback the past three seasons, was going to play as both separation end and flanker on account of the Seahawks against the 49ers.

“Maybe the correct thing to say is that I wasn’t physically ready to subsist playing wide receiver,” Wallace said. A tight hough limited him in practice on Wednesday, however there was nihility wrong with his calf before the sport. “Maybe I added a inconsiderable bridle-bit more calamity to myself because I wanted to perform and heal the team out,” Wallace said. Wallace’s injury foliage the Seahawks with Charlie Frye as the backup quarterback. Brian Russell — who played quarterback up to the time when his junior season at San Diego State — could be used in an emergency. Holmgren said he expects the team to add a quarterback this week, though that could be to the practice squad.

As distant as receptacle, the Seahawks will certainly add to the relation. Jordan Kent, currently on the practice small company, is a candidate, and Koren Robinson remains someone who’s both practised with Seattle’s offense and available. Holmgren was asked if the team might have to look at trading for a receiver and not sifting through the players who are unsigned.

“We need to consider it,” Holmgren said. “Because you wind up looking at the like list the whole of the life. Believe me, we’ll travel through observingly every option we be possible to because desponding times calls for desperate measures.”

Notes

Kelly Jennings suffered a broken rib in the first half of Sunday’s game, but finished the game. He received an clyster at halftime. He isn’t expected to practice much this week, but should be able to play on Sunday against St. Louis.

Sean Locklear has a chance to play this week if he returns to custom after missing the first pair games with a knee injury … Holmgren did not rule out Deion Branch returning for this week’s game, but he isn’t expected back until the fourth adventure from the Seahawks’ bye week.

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