{"id":507905,"date":"2026-02-05T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507905"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:38:06","slug":"seattle-expects-emmanwori-to-play-in-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/seattle-expects-emmanwori-to-play-in-super-bowl-lx\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle expects Emmanwori to play in Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks boss Mike Macdonald revealed today that he &#8220;fully expects&#8221; rookie nickelback Nick Emmanwori to be on the field in Super Bowl LX despite problems with his ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Mike shared that Nick sustained a low ankle sprain when he rolled it late during training yesterday. The manager wasn&#8217;t sure how much, if at all, the rookie would train today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he will be ready for Sunday,\u201d the Seahawks head coach claimed. \u201cWe just want to be careful so he can be at his best when he needs him the most in the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seattle will face the Patriots at the end of the weekend at Levi&#8217;s Stadium for the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just surprised that this happened,\u201d Emmanwori revealed about his injury scare. \u201cThe training wasn\u2019t intense, but I rolled. I will be alright to be on the field in the SB and can\u2019t wait for the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nick, a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round draft selection out of South Carolina, injured the same ankle on 1<sup>st<\/sup> series of Seattle\u2019s campaign opener, sidelining him for the rest of that match and the next 3. After his return, Emmanwori is a key player in his team\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video of Nick Emmanwori going to his media availability after suffering an ankle injury in practice yesterday (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldGulls?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FieldGulls<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SuperBowl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYqA5RlnLE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IYqA5RlnLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TDT Media (@ThirdDownThurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThirdDownThurs\/status\/2019516219704111429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks boss Mike Macdonald revealed today that he &#8220;fully expects&#8221; rookie nickelback Nick Emmanwori to be on the field in Super Bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507906,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27039,16751],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[27040,20656],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Seahawks fully expect that Nick will be available on Sunday.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507907,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507905\/revisions\/507907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507905"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507905"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}