(Editor’s note: This is a special guest column by Griff Sturgeon, better known as cmikesspinmove on social media and co-host of the Seattle Overload podcast with Field Gulls alum Matty F. Brown)

In his second entry of real NFL action, Seattle Seahawks rookie safety Nick Emmanwori found himself involved in all phases of the game, collecting nine tackles and one tackle-for-loss. He was organized exclusively as the Nickel in Mike Macdonald’s 4-2-5 packages, and mostly aligned to the field, regardless if it was the pass-strength or not. From there he was assigned in coverage the cover-3 curl-flat zone, the curl of cover-2, seam-match responsibilities in both, as well as dropping deep to a cover-2 half shell in disguised calls. Macdonald was sure to feature him heavily as a blitzer in a variet

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