RENTON — Tight end Jimmy Graham missed practice Thursday and had a new hip injury listed on the Seattle Seahawks’ daily practice-participation report.
Strong safety Kam Chancellor missed his third straight practice dating to last week with a pulled groin. Chancellor sat out last weekend’s game and could be a game-time decision to play Sunday at Arizona.
Graham ruptured the patellar tendon in his knee Nov. 29. He played all but three of Seattle’s offensive snaps in last weekend’s win over Atlanta, catching six passes for 89 yards.
Graham has 18 catches for 302 yards and a touchdown in the last three games.
“It’s a battle for me every day,” Graham said after Sunday’s game, about his recovery from knee surgery.
A couple weeks ago Graham was on the injury report for back spasms during the practice week. This hip injury listed Thursday is new.
The team does not make head coach Pete Carroll, its lone voice on injury status, available to the media from before practice Wednesday until after practice Friday. So there was no other word on Graham’s situation for Sunday’s game.
Outside linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis was a new addition to the report with an ankle injury that kept him from practicing.
Rookie defensive lineman Quinton Jefferson was limited one day after practicing fully. He’s been trying to come back from a broken thumb for which he recently had surgery.
In Arizona, the Cardinals listed quarterback Carson Palmer as limited with a hamstring injury, one day after he did not practice. Palmer left Monday night’s win over the Jets with what the team said was a strained hamstring. The quarterback said after the game he was dehydrated and had cramps.
Kicker with a stage name
Hauschka made news in Seattle earlier this week when he told KCPQ television the teams for which he’s played have all gotten his given name wrong. That’s more than a few: Seattle, Denver, Baltimore in the NFL, and North Carolina State and Middlebury College before that.
He told Q13 his given name is actually Stephen — and “I just like to go by Steve.” He cited a “mix up” in college with a sports information department that just carried “Steven” forward throughout his football career.
Even his driver’s license reads “Stephen Hauschka.”
So as he headed out to practice Hauschka was asked if we all should now write Stephen or Steve for his name.
“Ah, just keep doing what you’ve been doing,” he said breezily. “Just go with Steven, with a ‘v.’
“That’s my stage name.”
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