**@maxidkig asks, "Why is Nick Emmanwori so incredible?" While @sydney\_maclaurinhogg asks, "Is Emmanwori a hybrid player now?"**
A: To answer the second question first, Emmanwori has been a hybrid player since the Seahawks drafted him last year, but based on Sunday's game, it does look like they might be adding even more to his plate. And that is part of the answer to the first question about Emmanwori being so incredible. His rare combination of size and speed, combined with the ability to learn and execute multiple positions, makes him a very rare player who can unlock so many options for Seattle's defense. He's big enough and physical enough to rush off the edge or be a good run defender at the line of scrimmage, but he's also athletic enough to cover receivers and tight ends. So much of modern offense is trying to gain a personnel advantage over a defense—run the ball if a defense has a light box, or throw if they have bigger personnel on the field—but Emmanwori's skillset can cancel some of that out, which is huge for Macdonald's defense.
**@backend.k1d asks, "How will we continue to get Shaheed involved?"**
A: We saw a bit more of Rashid Shaheed in the offense last weekend, with the receiver carrying the ball twice out of the backfield, including a 28-yard touchdown. As Macdonald noted, that's something the Seahawks have been doing in practice with Shaheed for a while, and with Price, an explosive, big-play threat, not available, it makes a lot of sense to give Shaheed more looks out of the backfield.
I said this in last week's mailbag, but I feel like it's only a matter of time before Shaheed has a big game as a pass-catcher, but as Sunday's win showed, getting him a few touches as a running back can also be a fun wrinkle for the offense.
**@rudy\_duran asks, "Did the O-line room acknowledge JSN's pancake this past game?"**
A: If you missed it, this question is in reference to the block that Jaxon Smith-Njigba threw to help Shaheed get in the end zone on his 28-yard touchdown run. And while I don't know if the O-linemen will acknowledge that block, it's something everyone on the team appreciates and expects from the team's receivers, even superstars who are the reigning Offensive Player of the Year.
"Great plays," Macdonald said of blocks by Smith-Njigba and Cooper Kupp that helped lead to touchdowns. "It's how we want to play football. We need to be able to block second and third levels, that's how you get explosive plays, that's how you get runs off the ground. It's how we want to play, to be blunt about it. The guys did a great job yesterday, they really deserve a lot of credit. Coop had a tremendous game, Jax blocked well, Tory (Horton) did some good things. We've got to keep it rolling on that front so we can pop runs."