What's most sobering about this news is how truly tenuous this roster has become. The linebacking corps was supposed to be the one reliable aspect to this overhauled defense. Now, even that has become suspect.
Based on the tone, it was as though K.J. Wright was merely getting treatment for a paper cut. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll gave the subject so little gravity that it could have floated up into the clouds.
But hold on a second … knee surgery? For the Pro Bowl linebacker? For one of the few remaining staples after a franchise-defining exodus?
Might not be anything much, but it certainly isn’t anything good.