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Their top rookie wasn’t practicing again.
Their Super Bowl-champion threw an interception, which in his sterling training camp is semi-news.
Nick Emmanwori did the smallest bit of stretching with his teammates before he watched them practice again. Fellow safety D’Anthony Bell and their coaches joked with Emmanwori and slapped him warmly on his back. It was the next, incremental step in the dynamic safety/linebacker’s return to Mike Macdonald’s top-ranked defense from arthroscopic ankle surgery last month. Emmanwori remains what the team has thought all along: on track to play in the opener in four weeks.
And a player who had his worst football day in this event almost a year to the day showed he is all the way back.
The Seahawks’ annual fan-fest, training-camp practice at Lumen Field Saturday evening was the second straight practice rookie first-round draft choice Jadarian Price missed. He was in team sweats walking out as the champs took the field to the crowd’s cheers to begin drills. A team spokesman said the running back has “lower-body soreness,” per a team spokesman.
Coincidentally, departed (to Kansas City) Kenneth Walker, the lead back the Seahawks drafted Price 32nd overall this spring to replace, missed this fan fest last summer with what the team also called “soreness.” That was part of Macdonald’s staff pacing Walker through the summer following a high-ankle sprain from the winter of 2024.
The Seahawks were inside Lumen Field as a team for the first time since they were sipping from red Solo cups, chuggin’ Bud Lights, raising the Lombardi Trophy to roaring fans and getting on Army vehicles to parade through downtown Seattle to celebrate their Super Bowl victory in mid-February.
Macdonald uses this Fan Fest practice at Lumen Field as a dress rehearsal for how game days go in the NFL regular season. The head coach scheduled the practice to begin at 5:15 p.m., because that’s about the time of the five primetime home games Seattle has this season on national television. The first one is the league’s kick-off game, Wednesday, Sept. 9, when the Seahawks get a Super Bowl 60 rematch with New England at Lumen Field.
Macdonald had them go through a pregame timing and warmup schedule similar to in the real season.
Derick Hall would have loved to have driven there.
In his massive, beloved Dodge truck.
The Seahawks re-signed Hall this offseason to a $42 million contract to extend him in Seattle beyond his rookie deal as the team’s second-round draft choice out of Auburn in 2023.
Hall said he knew he could have played out the final season of his rookie contract and likely commanded more on the open market next spring. But he loves Seattle, loves Macdonald, loves the Seahawks’ brotherhood — and the fact he just won a Super Bowl with them.
Macdonald loves Hall’s ability to take on double-team blocks and set the edge outside against the run game, as well as to cover receivers in pass coverage and pressure quarterbacks with his pass-rushing.
So the Seahawks paid him $42 million, and let Boye Mafe leave in free agency to Cincinnati this offseason.
The News Tribune asked Hall on KJR-FM radio what if any big purchases he made with his first monster NFL contract.
“I’ve been into trucks, obviously. So I bought another truck, a sixth-gen(eration) Dodge. I’ve loved the Cummins (engines),” Hall said.
The truck is massive. Hall installed air lifts in it to raise it many feet above the road. He can raise it, lower it, even lean it. He says he does that at stop lights, to amuse himself with the looks he gets from the drivers around him.
It’s one of multiple Dodge trucks with Cummins engines Hall, 25, has and loves.
The nation got to see Hall’s 2020 Dodge Ram 2500 in the first episode of NFL Films’ Hard Knocks series on the Seahawks training camp. It aired on HBO Tuesday.
The NFL Films camera on the parking lot of the Seahawks’ Virginia Mason Athletic Center in the opening seconds of that scene? Hall ran over it. Obliterated it with his giant tires. He couldn’t see it.
“I did. I ran it over,” he said. “They were like, ‘D-Hall, did you feel something when you rolled in?’ I was like, ‘No.’ And they showed me the camera and it was just smashed.
“I was like, ‘Dang, I apologize.’ But they were like, ‘No, it’s unique. It’s authentic.’
“But I did smash a camera.”
Delivery drivers to Hall’s place in the hills above Seahawks headquarters in Renton happen onto Hall working on his truck in the driveway. All the time.
“I built that truck last offseason in my shop back in Mississippi,” the native of Gulfport, Mississippi, said. “It was brown with polish overlays. And I got up here and I tore it apart again.
“You can go on YouTube and watch it on Derick Hall Truck Productions.
“I was still hands-on. When we tore that truck apart, one of the first few trucks had that two-tone powder coat. So you have that base color, which is the teal. That process is pretty unique because you spray the whole thing teal, and then you let that bake. You take it out of the oven, and then you spray everything white, and then whatever you want to stay teal, you have to wipe that off. It’s a lot of detail going into that.”
But wait, Hall wants to tell you more about his truck.
“As far as driving, I drive it every day. I drive it over everything else. I drive every day. I love it,” he said. “I enjoy it. It’s just truly who I am. I have tons of these things. I love the trucks. I love the trucking lifestyle, so it’s truly who I am and I like to show people what I do outside of ball, and that’s just my life.
“Being hands-on with it, I do it myself. I think that’s pretty unique.”
A year ago at the same event, AJ Finley’s season was already over.
The then-third-year safety tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in the team’s 2025 fan-fest practice. He missed all of last season, missed out of possibly being on the field in Super Bowl 60 in February.
Saturday, Finley showed he’s all the way back. He intercepted Sam Darnold to end the first series of a simulated overtime session. It was off an out route by Jaxon Smith-Njigba, when the NFL offensive player of the year fell down coming out of his break.
As is their custom, Finley’s defensive teammates ran with him to the end zone to complete the play. The crowd got a kick out of that, more than Darnold did.
A day after Cooper Kupp got the better of Devon Witherspoon one-on-one with a slant route and catch that left the Pro Bowl cornerback angry, Witherspoon got back at him.
Kupp tried a similar, head fake then sharp slant move across Witherspoon in a goal-line, one-on-one drill Saturday. This time, Witherspoon denied Kupp’s cut. He broke up Darnold’s pass in the end zone.
Ohio high-school substitute teacher and real-estate agent Montorie Foster Jr. continued his excellent week at wide receiver. Again this summer it is one of Seattle’s most competitive and crowded position groups for roster spots.
He’s been so good, Foster is starting to get some reps with the first-team offense.
Later in Saturday’s goal-line, one-on-one scrimmage, Foster dived Superman-like at the back, right corner of the end zone to reach a pass long from Darnold. Foster tapped the ball to himself with his right arm extended, then kept both feet inside the back line of the end zone for a wowing touchdown.
In the middle of the field in an 11-on-11 scrimmage, Foster made a double move with a head-and-shoulder fake. It left rookie cornerback Andre Fuller falling down 5 yards behind him as Foster made the catch and run in open field.
Foster later scored a touchdown by ripping a pass by Drew Lock away from the defensive back along the left sideline.
Zach Charbonnet on the physically-unable-to-perform list following reconstructive knee surgery in February, Price out, plus an injury that’s sidelined Jacardia Wright all week and Robbie Ouzts ongoing absence and uncertain status have thinned the Seahawks’ running-back depth.
Saturday the team signed Justin Jones, an undrafted rookie out of Auburn. Jones was in Seattle’s rookie minicamp in May as a tryout player. Jones only had 16 carries over four seasons at Auburn, 11 of those last college season. He excelled at special teams.
The running backs with the first-team offense Saturday evening: George Holani, Emanuel Wilson and Velus Jones Jr.
The Seahawks waived linebacker Power Echols, whom they’d signed only days ago.
*Smith-Njigba’s daily brilliant play was in the one-on-one drill. He ran past starting cornerback Josh Jobe then used his unique body control to keep Jobe away from Darnold’s incoming pass for a touchdown in the back, left corner of the end zone.
*Jobe answered with a breakup of Darnold’s pass into the same area of the end zone to Kupp. Jobe bodied Kupp into the left sideline boundary and forced the 33-year-old wide receiver to juggle the ball for an incompletion out of bounds.
*Tight end Elijah Arroyo, the team’s second-round pick last year, continued his standout camp. In the one-on-one drill at the goal line he bulled into the chest of rookie safety Bud Clark, then deftly drifted away from the second-round pick to the left side of the end zone for a touchdown catch. Arroyo later beat Clark with a smooth cut on a deep in route for another catch.
Arroyo’s best play was when he made a cut and move past Pro Bowl veteran safety Julian Love for a touchdown catch from Darnold in 11 on 11.
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Their Super Bowl-champion threw an interception, which in his sterling training camp is semi-news.
Nick Emmanwori did the smallest bit of stretching with his teammates before he watched them practice again. Fellow safety D’Anthony Bell and their coaches joked with Emmanwori and slapped him warmly on his back. It was the next, incremental step in the dynamic safety/linebacker’s return to Mike Macdonald’s top-ranked defense from arthroscopic ankle surgery last month. Emmanwori remains what the team has thought all along: on track to play in the opener in four weeks.
And a player who had his worst football day in this event almost a year to the day showed he is all the way back.
The Seahawks’ annual fan-fest, training-camp practice at Lumen Field Saturday evening was the second straight practice rookie first-round draft choice Jadarian Price missed. He was in team sweats walking out as the champs took the field to the crowd’s cheers to begin drills. A team spokesman said the running back has “lower-body soreness,” per a team spokesman.
Coincidentally, departed (to Kansas City) Kenneth Walker, the lead back the Seahawks drafted Price 32nd overall this spring to replace, missed this fan fest last summer with what the team also called “soreness.” That was part of Macdonald’s staff pacing Walker through the summer following a high-ankle sprain from the winter of 2024.
The Seahawks were inside Lumen Field as a team for the first time since they were sipping from red Solo cups, chuggin’ Bud Lights, raising the Lombardi Trophy to roaring fans and getting on Army vehicles to parade through downtown Seattle to celebrate their Super Bowl victory in mid-February.
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Macdonald uses this Fan Fest practice at Lumen Field as a dress rehearsal for how game days go in the NFL regular season. The head coach scheduled the practice to begin at 5:15 p.m., because that’s about the time of the five primetime home games Seattle has this season on national television. The first one is the league’s kick-off game, Wednesday, Sept. 9, when the Seahawks get a Super Bowl 60 rematch with New England at Lumen Field.
Macdonald had them go through a pregame timing and warmup schedule similar to in the real season.
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Derick Hall and his truck
Derick Hall would have loved to have driven there.
In his massive, beloved Dodge truck.
The Seahawks re-signed Hall this offseason to a $42 million contract to extend him in Seattle beyond his rookie deal as the team’s second-round draft choice out of Auburn in 2023.
Hall said he knew he could have played out the final season of his rookie contract and likely commanded more on the open market next spring. But he loves Seattle, loves Macdonald, loves the Seahawks’ brotherhood — and the fact he just won a Super Bowl with them.
Macdonald loves Hall’s ability to take on double-team blocks and set the edge outside against the run game, as well as to cover receivers in pass coverage and pressure quarterbacks with his pass-rushing.
So the Seahawks paid him $42 million, and let Boye Mafe leave in free agency to Cincinnati this offseason.
The News Tribune asked Hall on KJR-FM radio what if any big purchases he made with his first monster NFL contract.
“I’ve been into trucks, obviously. So I bought another truck, a sixth-gen(eration) Dodge. I’ve loved the Cummins (engines),” Hall said.
The truck is massive. Hall installed air lifts in it to raise it many feet above the road. He can raise it, lower it, even lean it. He says he does that at stop lights, to amuse himself with the looks he gets from the drivers around him.
It’s one of multiple Dodge trucks with Cummins engines Hall, 25, has and loves.
The nation got to see Hall’s 2020 Dodge Ram 2500 in the first episode of NFL Films’ Hard Knocks series on the Seahawks training camp. It aired on HBO Tuesday.
The NFL Films camera on the parking lot of the Seahawks’ Virginia Mason Athletic Center in the opening seconds of that scene? Hall ran over it. Obliterated it with his giant tires. He couldn’t see it.
“I did. I ran it over,” he said. “They were like, ‘D-Hall, did you feel something when you rolled in?’ I was like, ‘No.’ And they showed me the camera and it was just smashed.
“I was like, ‘Dang, I apologize.’ But they were like, ‘No, it’s unique. It’s authentic.’
“But I did smash a camera.”
Delivery drivers to Hall’s place in the hills above Seahawks headquarters in Renton happen onto Hall working on his truck in the driveway. All the time.
“I built that truck last offseason in my shop back in Mississippi,” the native of Gulfport, Mississippi, said. “It was brown with polish overlays. And I got up here and I tore it apart again.
“You can go on YouTube and watch it on Derick Hall Truck Productions.
“I was still hands-on. When we tore that truck apart, one of the first few trucks had that two-tone powder coat. So you have that base color, which is the teal. That process is pretty unique because you spray the whole thing teal, and then you let that bake. You take it out of the oven, and then you spray everything white, and then whatever you want to stay teal, you have to wipe that off. It’s a lot of detail going into that.”
But wait, Hall wants to tell you more about his truck.
“As far as driving, I drive it every day. I drive it over everything else. I drive every day. I love it,” he said. “I enjoy it. It’s just truly who I am. I have tons of these things. I love the trucks. I love the trucking lifestyle, so it’s truly who I am and I like to show people what I do outside of ball, and that’s just my life.
“Being hands-on with it, I do it myself. I think that’s pretty unique.”
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AJ Finley is back
A year ago at the same event, AJ Finley’s season was already over.
The then-third-year safety tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in the team’s 2025 fan-fest practice. He missed all of last season, missed out of possibly being on the field in Super Bowl 60 in February.
Saturday, Finley showed he’s all the way back. He intercepted Sam Darnold to end the first series of a simulated overtime session. It was off an out route by Jaxon Smith-Njigba, when the NFL offensive player of the year fell down coming out of his break.
As is their custom, Finley’s defensive teammates ran with him to the end zone to complete the play. The crowd got a kick out of that, more than Darnold did.
Devon Witherspoon vs Cooper Kupp, continued
A day after Cooper Kupp got the better of Devon Witherspoon one-on-one with a slant route and catch that left the Pro Bowl cornerback angry, Witherspoon got back at him.
Kupp tried a similar, head fake then sharp slant move across Witherspoon in a goal-line, one-on-one drill Saturday. This time, Witherspoon denied Kupp’s cut. He broke up Darnold’s pass in the end zone.
Montorie Foster Jr. shining
Ohio high-school substitute teacher and real-estate agent Montorie Foster Jr. continued his excellent week at wide receiver. Again this summer it is one of Seattle’s most competitive and crowded position groups for roster spots.
He’s been so good, Foster is starting to get some reps with the first-team offense.
Later in Saturday’s goal-line, one-on-one scrimmage, Foster dived Superman-like at the back, right corner of the end zone to reach a pass long from Darnold. Foster tapped the ball to himself with his right arm extended, then kept both feet inside the back line of the end zone for a wowing touchdown.
In the middle of the field in an 11-on-11 scrimmage, Foster made a double move with a head-and-shoulder fake. It left rookie cornerback Andre Fuller falling down 5 yards behind him as Foster made the catch and run in open field.
Foster later scored a touchdown by ripping a pass by Drew Lock away from the defensive back along the left sideline.
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Running back signed
Zach Charbonnet on the physically-unable-to-perform list following reconstructive knee surgery in February, Price out, plus an injury that’s sidelined Jacardia Wright all week and Robbie Ouzts ongoing absence and uncertain status have thinned the Seahawks’ running-back depth.
Saturday the team signed Justin Jones, an undrafted rookie out of Auburn. Jones was in Seattle’s rookie minicamp in May as a tryout player. Jones only had 16 carries over four seasons at Auburn, 11 of those last college season. He excelled at special teams.
The running backs with the first-team offense Saturday evening: George Holani, Emanuel Wilson and Velus Jones Jr.
The Seahawks waived linebacker Power Echols, whom they’d signed only days ago.
Extra points
*Smith-Njigba’s daily brilliant play was in the one-on-one drill. He ran past starting cornerback Josh Jobe then used his unique body control to keep Jobe away from Darnold’s incoming pass for a touchdown in the back, left corner of the end zone.
*Jobe answered with a breakup of Darnold’s pass into the same area of the end zone to Kupp. Jobe bodied Kupp into the left sideline boundary and forced the 33-year-old wide receiver to juggle the ball for an incompletion out of bounds.
*Tight end Elijah Arroyo, the team’s second-round pick last year, continued his standout camp. In the one-on-one drill at the goal line he bulled into the chest of rookie safety Bud Clark, then deftly drifted away from the second-round pick to the left side of the end zone for a touchdown catch. Arroyo later beat Clark with a smooth cut on a deep in route for another catch.
Arroyo’s best play was when he made a cut and move past Pro Bowl veteran safety Julian Love for a touchdown catch from Darnold in 11 on 11.
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