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Albert Breer

How Drew Lock and Geno Smith Powered Seahawks Past QB Unknowns

On to Week 16 …

• There was a lot of drama before Monday Night Football in Seattle, and the hard truth is, a couple of hours before kickoff, even the Seahawks themselves didn’t know what they were going to do at quarterback.

At the walkthrough the night before the game, I’m told, Drew Lock and Geno Smith split the reps right down the middle. And while Sean Mannion was elevated from the practice squad, the decision on Smith’s status wasn’t set in stone until when the team turned its inactive list 90 minutes before kickoff.

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