Their coach calls playing without practicing all week “a dangerous game.”

It’s one the Seahawks are willing to play with Devon Witherspoon.

The two-time Pro Bowl cornerback has a bruised medial collateral ligament in his knee, coach Mike Macdonald said Monday. That was a day after Witherspoon ran a half-dozen or more sprints of 40 yards early pregame in Pittsburgh, testing a right knee that had a brace over it.

The team’s athletic training staff and coaches ultimately decided Witherspoon would not play Sunday. He missed his first game after 20 consecutive played.

Recently signed Derion Kendrick back-filled inside at fifth, nickel defensive back with Riq Woolen and Josh Jobe starting as outside cornerbacks. Kendrick had a key interception in the end zone in the third quarter of Seattle’

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