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Eddie Lacy reacts to being inactive while healthy for the first time--and all the weight jokes

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RENTON Eddie Lacy was preparing to do what he’d done 57 previous times in his NFL career and 38 times in three college seasons at Alabama when healthy for a game.

Get in uniform and play in it.

Then his running back coach Chad Morton came up to Seattle’s splashiest offseason acquisition Sunday morning as the Seahawks were boarding their bus to take them from their Seattle-area hotel to CenturyLink Field for the home opener against San Francisco. Morton told Lacy, who gained 3 yards on 5 carries with no blocking the week before in the Seahawks’ opener at Green Bay, that he was inactive for the game.