For the first time this preseason, Seahawks coach Jim Mora acknowledged that his team has to prepare as if it could start season without left tackle Walter Jones and cornerback Marcus Trufant.
Jones, who had microfracture surgery on his left knee in the offseason, left Monday’s practice early, and it turns out that was because that knee was bothering him. Mora said Jones had an MRI and will have his knee scoped tomorrow morning.
“He felt weird in his knee after about five or six snaps, so he went in,” Mora said of Jones’ early departure Monday. “We got an MRI on it to be safe, and they’re going to do a scope on it tomorrow morning and just check it out. It is the knee he had the surgery on, and there might be some loose bodies in there, we don’t know. We don’t think that it’s anything significant, but we just want to be sure.”
Trufant, who has been on the physically unable to perform list and missed all of camp, had an MRI on his back, and it showed what Mora called a “Disc issue.” Mora said Trufant will not need surgery, but that it is unsure if he will be able to be back in time for the start of the season.
“He’s making good recovery, has been doing really well, but because of the history that we have with backs here, we’re very careful, so we sent him for an MRI, and there is a little disc issue,” Mora said. “Not to be alarming, he’s actually doing very well. It’s not anything that will need surgery. If you want to be a glass-is-half-full guy, which I am, it’s good that we found this out now rather than in the middle of the season… He’s been running inside in the pool and making significant strides, but it there is a disc issue, not unlike Matt’s other than the fact that it’s the start of the season so we have a chance to take our time and be patient with his recovery.”
If Trufant isn’t taken off the PUP list before the first game, he cannot play for the first six weeks, and does not count as one of Seattle’s 53 roster spots. After those six weeks, there is then a three-week window where he can be activated, and if that time passes and Trufant still isn’t able to return to the team, he is out for the season.
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