When he was a fairly unknown rookie quarterback in 2012, Seattle's Russell Wilson lost the team's lone Thursday night game of that season, 13-6 at San Francisco. Wilson has won nine straight Thursday night games since and that streak is the line tonight with the Seahawks as 2.5-point home underdogs against the Rams and potentially without No. 1 running back Chris Carson, top tight end Gerald Everett and starting defensive end Benson Mayowa. Click here for model picks on game.
Carson played in Sunday's 28-21 upset at the 49ers and rushed 13 times for 30 yards with one catch but suffered a neck injury and has not practiced this week. He's a game-time call Thursday. Alex Collins would become the primary back if Carson sits and Collins carried 10 times for 44 yards and a TD on Sunday with two catches for 34 yards.
Everett missed Week 3 on the COVID list but is vaccinated. Players must have two negative PCR tests more than 24 hours apart to be cleared to play, and so far he has one. If Everett gets another negative result, he can play (he has had two negatives from a different test but that's not official). Everett is a huge part of first-year offensive coordinator Shane Waldron's plans because he also lines up in the backfield and as a receiver. Everett, the former Ram, has eight catches for 77 yards and a TD.
As for Mayowa, he is listed as questionable but Pete Carroll said "things are looking up" and that it "looks like he has a real shot to play." Mayowa has one sack this year. Fellow end Carlos Dunlap looked iffy early in the week with a turf toe – on Monday, Carroll said Dunlap was unlikely to play. But now Dunlap has no injury designation.
The Rams appear quite healthy. There are some crazy prime-time trends for this one. Los Angeles is 10-2 against the spread in prime-time games since 2019 and has won and covered four in a row. Sean McVay is 3-1 SU on Thursday nights with that one loss in Seattle two years ago, 30-29, on a Greg Zuerlein missed 44-yard field goal in the final seconds.
Wilson is 7-2-1 ATS all-time on Thursday nights with those nine straight SU wins (longest by any QB since TNF began in 2006) – in them, he is completing a combined 71 percent of his passes with 20 TDs, three picks and a rating of 118.6. In all prime-time games at home, Wilson is 21-3 SU and 17-6-1 ATS in his Hall of Fame career with a rating of 111.6.
This is Seattle's first game as a home dog since Week 17 of 2019 vs. 49ers – the Seahawks are 9-1 ATS in their past 10 overall as home dogs.
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