There’s no point asking whether the Seattle Seahawks’ new starting center is any good, right? If Joey Hunt was good, he wouldn’t have been drafted in the sixth round in 2016, or spent the last three years riding the bench. He wouldn’t have been sent down to the practice squad in 2017, or only made the third string this year, sitting behind both Ethan Pocic and Justin Britt.
But now Britt’s done for the season, Pocic is on IR and ineligible to return for more than a month, the trade deadline has passed, and Joey Hunt is living a real-life version of Any Given Sunday: In the reassuring words of Coach D’Amato to Willie Beamen, Hunt doesn’t have to worry about getting the hook, because we’ve got nobody left.