Seahawks Rookie RG Sataoa Laumea performs each snap with Anthony Bradford sidelined

The Seattle Seahawks and New York Jets took to the sector at MetLife Stadium Sunday afternoon in Week 13 motion, and the Hawks emerged from one thing that resembling a soccer sport with a 7-5 file and a one sport lead within the NFC West.

That units Seattle up properly for a possible run on the playoffs over the ultimate 5 video games of the season, although the Hawks may have their work reduce out as they navigate a schedule that features 4 different NFC playoff contenders. Nonetheless, that’s what’s to come back, and that is about who performed for the Seahawks towards the Jets Sunday, so shifting proper to that, listed below are the snaps performed by the offense.

Maybe the most important factor that jumps out of the snap counts on the offensive aspect of the ball is that rookie third spherical decide Christian Haynes didn’t see the sector on offense, whereas sixth spherical choice Sataoa Laumea performed each snap. The 64 snaps Laumea logged Sunday are greater than Haynes has performed in any single sport, together with his season excessive of 60 snaps coming in Week 12 after starter Anthony Bradford went down with an ankle harm early within the sport.

It’s clearly nonetheless early in Haynes’ profession, so there’s nonetheless loads of time earlier than the bust label will get utilized, however it’s fascinating to see that the Hawks seem completely happy to present nearly anybody snaps moreover Haynes. Regardless of the motivation behind the teaching employees not giving Haynes extra enjoying time, the fact is that Bradford and Laumea are the 2 youngest offensive linemen on the Seahawks roster, with left deal with Charles Cross the third youngest. The implication of that’s that that ought to the teaching employees be capable to unlock the potential of these three, they might type a core to anchor the offensive line for a decade to come back.

In fact, that’s a massively big ‘if’ relating to whether or not the teaching employees is as much as the duty, but it surely’s a gaggle and technique that may make Tom Cable proud.

In the meantime, the defensive aspect of the ball has the potential makings of its personal core group that might carry the staff for years to come back within the likes of Julian Love (26), Riq Woolen (25), Riq Woolen (25) and Devon Witherspoon (23) who performed each snap towards New York.

On particular groups, there have been no actual surprises. As has been the case for a lot of the season, Drake Thomas, Brady Russell and Josh Ross paced the staff with 17 particular groups snaps. Proper behind them had been Jake Bobo, Pharaoh Brown and Laviska Shenault with 15.