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Duane Brown Color Rush Jersey , Richard Sherman and Doug Baldwin were inseparable. College teammates at Stanford. Pros together in Seattle.The first time facing each other as opponents in the pros was going to be noteworthy, no matter how much Sherman tried to downplay the significance before and after.“It was just a regular game. It’s just unfortunate we couldn’t have played as well as we could have. Had too many turnovers, gave up too many plays. That’s football and that’s the way things have gone this season,” Sherman said.The subplot to Sunday’s 43-16 win by the Seattle Seahawks over the San Francisco 49ers was the return of Sherman to the city where he went from an overlooked fifth-round draft pick into becoming one of the elite cornerbacks in the NFL and a Super Bowl champion. He was a beloved star in Seattle, whose career with the Seahawks abruptly ended last March when he was released coming off an Achilles injury that ended his 2017 season early. He left Seattle, found a new home in San Francisco and knew doing so would mean twice a year seeing his former team.The first reunion was going to be the most awkward, but for the most part it went smoothly. Sherman tried to disassociate himself from the hype surrounding the game, while his former teammates — especially Baldwin — spoke emotionally about missing their friend and now opponent.Bobby Wagner seemed to be the only one that wanted to have a little fun with the situation, saying he was looking for Sherman on the sideline during his 98-yard interception return in the fourth quarter which led to a little trash talking postgame.“He was just telling me that I was slow. I was telling him if I’m slow then what does that say about his team? We were just talking trash,” Wagner said. “That’s my brother, it was an amazing time for us to play with each other and to see him on the opposite side in the other jersey — that he looks ugly in — was cool.”Sherman went through his normal pregame routine that included finding Baldwin and briefly throwing a ball back and forth as they did in Seattle. He spent several minutes talking with Baldwin while also giving a quick handshake and hug to Russell Wilson and speaking with several other Seahawks players and staff.When the game started, it was mostly a quiet day for the cornerback. Seattle didn’t throw much and the first time Wilson threw his way was the third quarter when Baldwin slipped free from Sherman’s tackle attempt for a 21-yard gain. He also saw Jaron Brown break free from coverage for an 18-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter when the game was already out of hand.Afterward, he made certain to exchange jerseys with Baldwin on the field.“I’m not that emotional of a person when it comes to stuff like that,” Sherman said. “We’re obviously good friends and obviously we don’t see each other during the season. We’re going to see each other during the offseason. So it was good seeing him, good seeing his face and get to have a conversation.”Sherman said he wasn’t paying attention when Seattle’s wide receivers recreated his famous tip play from the 2013 NFC championship game when he deflected an end zone pass by Colin Kaepernick late in the fourth quarter into the arms of Malcolm Smith. The recreation was part of Seattle’s ongoing touchdown celebrations by its wide receivers and was the one Baldwin specifically wanted to do. It just happened to come in the same end zone as the original play — just this time with Baldwin in the role of Sherman in the reenactment.“He didn’t even know. I wanted it to be a surprise,” Baldwin said. “He knows it’s a tribute and he knows how the guys on this side of the ball feel. He knows how much we love him and how much we miss him.” J.D. McKissic has returned to practice for the Seattle Seahawks K.J. Wright Color Rush Jersey , three months after breaking a bone in his foot in the preseason. The Seahawks now have three weeks to either activate McKissic, meaning they’ll need to make a corresponding transaction, or be forced to put him back on injured reserve for the rest of the year. The good news is that Seattle does not seem to need McKissic right now, so they could wait and see if an injury makes the decision that much more obvious, but what will they do if Chris Carson, Mike Davis, and Rashaad Penny all remain healthy?The most obvious player people are pointing at is running back C.J. Prosise, but he’s not the only option.McKissic carried it 46 times for 187 yards and caught 34 passes for 266 yards in 13 games last season. He’s never been used as a regularly-featured back however, putting up a career-high seven rush attempts in a game against his former team, the Atlanta Falcons, last season. McKissic’s role if and when he does return seems to be as both a third-option back and receiver (he had the same number of targets (46) as he did rush attempts), as well as a player to consider using on kick returns. That being said, McKissic one career kickoff return, which came back in 2016.If Pete Carroll does believe that McKissic could do a better job on returns than Tyler Lockett (23.7 yards per), or at least a comparable job that spells Lockett from those duties, then his addition to the roster does become that much more valuable. Still Bobby Wagner Color Rush Jersey , both McKissic and Prosise seem to do one thing better than most backs:Catch the ball. That’s because both are former receivers.McKissic caught 289 passes at Arkansas State, a conference record in the Sun Belt. Prosise played receiver during his first two seasons at Notre Dame. Taking that into consideration, note that Seattle has had issues over the last three years with staying healthy at running back and it may behoove them to not lose Prosise, a player who seems quite likely to be picked up off waivers should the Seahawks decide to part ways. (My prediction is that the New England Patriots would not let Prosise pass through.) So what else could they do?Well, the team could release Prosise and keep themselves at four backs plus Tre Madden, or they could view both McKissic and Prosise as options at receiver and turn to the newest member of the active roster: Malik Turner.An undrafted free agent, Turner is currently the number five option at receiver. He’s received zero targets during his two games and has only two snaps on special teams. He was inactive against the LA Rams. If the team opted to stay with four receivers and six backs, they’d basically be able to call McKissic their number five receiver anyway, plus Prosise, while Turner almost certainly reverts back to the practice squad. I know some fans are anxious to see Prosise go because he’s been a disappointment, but it seems pretty simple when you look at it: Prosise is more valuable than Turner and if the team believes that McKissic and Prosise serve as viable emergency options at receiver, then there’s maybe no good reason to not keep both. That’s only if there are no injuries at running back between now and next month, which is a whole other consideration.