Seahawks safety Nick Emmanwori required arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle earlier this month. Emmanwori injured the ankle during practice four days before Super Bowl LX.
He played 70 of 72 defensive snaps against the Patriots, but the ankle never bounced back in the offseason.
“It’s the ankle from the Super Bowl,” coach Mike Macdonald said Saturday, via Gregg Bell of The News Tribune. “I guess the best way to describe it is, it’s something he’s been dealing with since the Super Bowl. He was able to perform, was able to train and do some things in the offseason program. But [he] just got to the point where it was the best for him, really just best for him in the long term, just go get it fixed. So that’s what he all decided to do. “Really, [it’s] the best for him for now and the foreseeable future, the rest of his career.”
Macdonald was noncommittal about Emmanwori’s return. He was asked multiple times whether he expects Emmanwori to play in the season opener without a definitive answer.
“I don’t know,” Macdonald said. “I mean, could he play in the opener? Sure.”
Emmanwori is expected back before the start of the season, Bell reports, but Macdonald wants to avoid a timeline so as not to pressure Emmanwori to rush back.
Emmanwori is on the active/physically unable to perform list.
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