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October 30th, 2013
A Seattle offense coming off its worst statistical performance in more than two years took another hit Tuesday with the news that receiver Sidney Rice will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL.
Rice suffered the injury in Monday’s 14-9 win at St. Louis, leaving after a play in the second quarter when he dived unsuccessfully to corral a Russell Wilson pass in the end zone.
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Coach Pete Carroll said after the game he didn’t know the extent of the injury. Tuesday afternoon, however, the team confirmed that Rice had torn his ACL and won’t return this season. Rice was not putting up big numbers, Seattle’s third-leading receiver with 15 catches for 231 yards. But he is the team’s tallest receiver at 6 feet 4 with no other receiver taller than 6-1.
His loss means Seattle won’t be able to field the receiving lineup it envisioned last March when it made a trade for Percy Harvin. Harvin, who at 5-11 tends to line up more on the inside compared to Rice’s outside role, has yet to play this season while recovering from hip surgery on Aug. 1. He returned to practice Tuesday, but was limited later in the week and has yet to be put on the team’s active roster. remains unclear when he will return. The loss of Rice will put more of a priority on getting Harvin onto the field to spice up a passing offense that has lagged recently. The Seahawks had a season-low 91 net passing yards in the win over the Rams and rank 28th in the NFL in passing yards at 198.8.
With the trade deadline passing Tuesday, Seattle won’t be able to get anyone from the outside other than waiver-wire pickups.
Jermaine Kearse, a second-year player from Washington who made the team last season as an undrafted free agent, played more Monday night after Rice departed, on the field for 27 of 44 offensive snaps.
Seattle’s top two receivers are Golden Tate (32 catches for 439 yards) and Doug Baldwin (23-372). Kearse has eight catches for 128 yards. The only other receiver on the active roster is Bryan Walters, who was activated off the practice squad three weeks ago but has yet to make a catch.
