The Seattle Seahawks’ rookie draft class includes a pair of draft picks who were coming off injuries last season. And with rookies reporting to training camp this week, there are some early hints regarding their statuses.
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Fifth-round defensive lineman Rylie Mills, who is recovering from a torn ACL that he suffered while playing for Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff last December, was placed on the non-football injury list on Tuesday. That’s no surprise, as Seahawks general manager John Schneider said in April that the team is hopeful Mills can return to the field “later” this season.
But in some apparent good news, fifth-round wide receiver Tory Horton wasn’t among the Seahawks on the NFI list.
Horton is coming off a knee injury last October that required surgery and forced him to miss the final seven games of his college career at Colorado State. He recovered in time to participate in the NFL scouting combine in late February, but was limited during spring practices with the Seahawks.
The fact that Horton isn’t on the NFI list – and that he was photographed catching a pass at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in a Seahawks social media post on Wednesday – is certainly a good sign.
“Would he come to camp and be able to hit the ground running? And that answer, the good news, is yes,” former NFL quarterback Brock Huard said during Thursday’s Blue 88 segment on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk. “He was not one of the (the Seahawks) on the non-football injury list to begin this camp. … Tory Horton was nowhere around that, so he should be full speed.”
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In the mix at WR
The 6-foot-2, 196-pound Horton could be a key part of the Seahawks’ new-look wide receiver corps. He compiled back-to-back 1,100-yard receiving seasons at Colorado State in 2022 and 2023, ranking in the top 20 of the FBS both years. And he also brings special teams value, totaling three punt return touchdowns over his three seasons with the Rams.
At the NFL combine earlier this year, Horton tied for 14th out of 39 receivers with a 4.41-second 40-yard dash. It was particularly impressive given where Horton was in his recovery process. He told reporters in his post-draft media session that he’d only resumed running two weeks prior to the combine.
Last month, The 33rd Team’s Sam Monson told Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy that he thinks Horton could push veteran Marquez Valdes-Scantling for the Seahawks’ No. 3 receiver role.
“I’d be really interested in keeping an eye on (Horton) through training camp and through preseason and seeing if he can really carve himself that role as the third receiver,” Monson said.
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