The 2025 NFL season is set to begin next week with teams reporting for training camp. However, Seattle Seahawks linebacker Uchenna Nwosu will have to start his season watching from the sidelines.
Nwosu was placed on the physically unable to perform or “PUP” list after undergoing offseason knee surgery. Another roadblock in a string of ailments that have plagued Nwosu.
According to Seahawks team website writer John Boyle, Nwosu underwent knee surgery. In Boyle’s article, general manager and president of football operations John Schneider referred to the Seahawks LB’s surgery as “a cleanup of some sort.” Adding, “It was nothing major, but he had to get some stuff cleaned up.”
Nwosu, unfortunately, is no stranger to rehabbing injuries over the last few seasons.
Rollercoaster Career
Starts and stops have marred Seahawks LB Uchenna Nwosu’s career from almost the beginning. Nwosu went in the second round of the 2018 draft out of USC to the Los Angeles Chargers. The first instance of injury misfortune occurred for Nwosu in 2020, when he was having a career year up to that point, with 4.5 sacks in 13 games, before being placed on injured reserve in late December.
Nwosu signed with Seattle in 2022, looking for a new start, and he made a grand impression right away. In a Week 1 win over the Denver Broncos, Nwosu had seven tackles, one sack, and a forced fumble on his way to being named NFC Defensive Player of the Week. He would go on to finish the season with 9.5 sacks and earn himself a three-year $45 million contract extension with the Seahawks.
Since signing the extension, Nwosu has not been able to stay healthy for an extended period. In 2023, Nwosu missed 11 games with a torn pectoral muscle. In 2024, the trajectory of his season was altered in a preseason game by a “dirty” block.
Chop Block Injured Nwosu
Seahawks LB Uchenna Nwosu was injured in the final game of the preseason against the Cleveland Browns, when Browns right guard Wyatt Teller chop-blocked Nwosu in the knee. Teller was penalized, but Nwosu left the game with a sprained MCL. Nwosu still harbors hard feelings over how the play unfolded.
Speaking with ESPN’s Brady Henderson, Nwosu spoke about what he thought of the play. “I thought it was dirty, straight up,” Nwosu said. “I didn’t like it. It’s preseason. We’re going to be in there like two drives, but it’s football,” Nwosu continued with Henderson. “I get it, it’s football at the end of the day, but it was definitely a dirty play.”
The MCL sprain was only the beginning of a frustrating 2024 season for Nwosu. A thigh injury that turned out to be a torn quad in his first game back sidelined him once again. Nwosu spoke about his injury frustration to Henderson and ESPN.
“It’s been tough,” Nwosu said to Henderson, noting that he had dealt with only minor injuries over his first five seasons before he tore his pectoral muscle. Nwosu continued. “I feel like it’s really things that have kind of been out of my control, especially with the knee injury I had.”
Nwosu will likely miss all of training camp and the preseason. However, he is hoping that getting his knee cleaned up will enable him to play a full season for the first time in three years.
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