Drew Lock's Status 'Kind Of Up In The Air' After Injuring Oblique In Seahawks' Win Over Cardinals

Quarterback Drew Lock, who came into the game dealing with an elbow injury, is now also dealing with an oblique injury coming out of Sunday's win.

Nov 08, 2026 at 06:32 PM

Seahawks.com Senior Reporter

Drew Lock made his second start of the season, playing in place of an injured Sam Darnold, and did so despite coming into the game with an injury of his own, an elbow ailment that had limited the Seahawks quarterback in practice for three straight weeks.

Despite that injury and limited reps in practice, Lock played efficient, turnover-free football to help lead the Seahawks to a 17-3 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, but he also came out of the game with a new concern, having injured his oblique in the second half.

Lock went to the injury tent after an incomplete pass on third down, but was able to return the next time the Seahawks took the field. Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said they're not sure of Lock's status for next week's game against the Raiders, nor, for that matter, do they know the status of Darnold, who missed Week 9 with a quadricep injury.

"I don't," Macdonald said when asked if he knows Darnold's status on Sunday. "I think we'll probably re-evaluate early in the week. I'm assuming we're going to probably have to make a decision on who we're going to get ready and how we're going to do that. Drew's situation, we'll have to evaluate that as well. Unfortunately, it seems like it's kind of up in the air right now."

For his part, when Lock was asked if he was confident he could play next week, he answered, "Yeah. Yeah." Lock said the injury didn't affect him while he was on the field, but that he could feel it when he was on the sideline.

"I was able to finish with it, but we'll get it looked at and go from there, but not too bad," he said, later adding, "I wouldn't say it (affected the ability to throw). I went into the tent, had it looked at, came back out… You feel it, but it was nothing that is going to keep me on the sideline."

Lock already came into the game managing an elbow injury that limited his reps in practice, and that also caused him to have an abbreviated pregame warmup. He finished the game completing 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown to AJ Barner, not the spectacular numbers he put up against Arizona in his previous start in Week 2, but more than enough to get the job done on a day Seattle's defense was dominating the Cardinals offense.

"The staff here, the training staff, the strength staff, Coach Mike, everybody handled it so great this week, Jalen Milroe, I think it was really well done," Lock said. "Just that's off to this building, to this team to be able to stick with me throughout this week and get us here to Sunday as healthy and as ready as we could be."
Said Macdonald, "He's a beast. Through not a round. He just went after it, and our medical people deserve a shout out too for putting a great plan together and treating Drew."