With little under four minutes remaining in the first quarter near midfield, starting right tackle George Fant of the Seattle Seahawks suffered an apparent leg injury five plays into their fourth offensive drive against the Denver Broncos on Sunday. The nine-year veteran, who stands six feet five and weighs 316 pounds,
was able to carefully exit the field, but he suffered a knee injury shortly after and was unable to return for the rest of the season’s opening game. First-year coach Mike Macdonald was down to his third-choice right tackle,
Stone Forsythe, less than a quarter into the 2024 season, with anticipated starter Abraham Lucas remaining on the physically unable to perform list following offseason knee surgery. Asking for an update on the starting right tackle, Macdonald responded, “Yeah-same thing with K9 [running back Kenneth Walker III]-best I could put it is day by day right now,”
on Monday afternoon. The 6-foot-8, 307-pound Forsythe played the last 54 snaps of the game at right tackle, while Fant played a total of 13 snaps before exiting the game late in the first quarter. The Seahawks won 26–20, which is what matters most to Macdonald, despite the former 2021 sixth-round pick out of the University of Florida struggling to find his footing over the final three quarters,
giving up a sack and being called for a false start on the first drive of the second half. After watching the footage from Week 1, Macdonald said of the former Gators’ product, “Stone did a solid job [and] we ended up winning the football game.” “He gave up on a few pass rushes on the edge, and they will be resolved. However, once [he] entered, we won the match.”
