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Seahawks' Plan For Drew Lock This Week, Some Positive Injury Updates & More From Mike Macdonald

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald provided a few updates on his team’s health heading into a Week 10 matchup with the Raiders.

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The Seahawks will face the Raiders on Sunday with Drew Lock at quarterback once again as Sam Darnold continues to recover from quadricep and rib injuries that also kept him out of last weekend's win over the Cardinals.

And while Lock is dealing with a pair of injuries of his own -- an elbow that has limited him in practice for the past few weeks, as well as an oblique injury that came up in Sunday's game -- he is, as head coach Mike Macdonald put it, making good progress and will be on a similar plan to last week.

"Drew's making good progress, so we have a plan, similar to last week and we'll go from there," Macdonald said prior to Wednesday's practice.

Last week, Lock split reps with second-year quarterback Jalen Milroe, and the team limited the number of throws he made to help him get to game day with the elbow feeling good.

"He's not going to take every rep, he's not going to make every throw again, but that's just trying to be as prudent as possible through the process to make sure he's feeling his best on Sunday," Macdonald said.

In addition to Darnold, the Seahawks will also be without newly-acquired guard Quenton Nelson, who had a procedure on his knee on Monday and is now back with the team. Macdonald was encouraged with how that process has gone.

"He's here, he's back in the building," Macdonald said. "He looks good, we were able to get to some things, treatment wise, that are of the chasing edges caliber, which is music to my ears. I know he's going to be back sooner than later if it's under his control, and we'll take it week by week at this point."

While the Seahawks know they will be without Darnold and Nelson this weekend, there is optimism that some of the other players who were out last week -- left tackle Charles Cross, receiver Rashid Shaheed, outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu, defensive tackle Leonard Williams and nose tackle Brandon Pili -- could make it back.

"We're not going full speed today, so a lot of those guys will have the opportunity to take reps today, then we'll see tomorrow," Macdonald said. "We haven't ruled anybody out yet, nor have we ruled anybody in yet, but good news on a lot of those guys."

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