Brock: The Seahawks player who needs a big game vs Raiders

The Seattle Seahawks’ meeting with the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday will be a big test for a player that Brock Huard wants to see show up with his biggest game of the season.

That player is Abraham Lucas, the homegrown right guard from Everett who starred at Archbishop Murphy in high school and the WSU Cougars in college.

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When healthy, the 28-year-old Lucas has been a stalwart for the Seahawks. He started all 16 of the games he played for the Seahawks in his rookie season after being drafted in the third round in 2022,  and after missing more than half of the games in each of 2023 and 2024 due to injury, he has played all of Seattle’s 29 games since last season (including the playoffs).

Huard pointed out that Lucas is expected to see a lot of time Sunday against star Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby, a perennial Pro Bowler who leads Las Vegas with four sacks this season.

“Obviously Maxx Crosby is a guy you’ve got to deal with,” said Huard, a former NFL quarterback and longtime FOX football broadcaster. “He’s a leading sacker. (Crosby’s sack total is) not prodigious as they’ve been in the past with his numbers, he’s not on pace for a double-digit sack season. But he’s still an unbelievably high effort guy that you’ve got to account for on the edge.”

While Lucas hasn’t appeared on the injury report once this season for Seattle, Huard had a word to describe what he’s seen out of the 6-foot-6, 322-pound lineman.

“I would use the word lumbering. It just feels lumbering,” Huard said. “… There’s nobody we watch more in the offseason, at least me, with all of his videos that he posts than Abe Lucas. He loves to train. He loves to lift heavy. He loves to do all that stuff. But between the long journey of last season, some of that heavy lifting, he looks a little lumbering.”

Following the game in Vegas, the Seahawks will have the next week off. Huard is hoping this is a chance for Lucas to get some positive momentum for the stretch run.

“It’s time for big Abe to get going. … I’d like to see the Abe Lucas that we got to see through a lot of the last three or four years, especially as he got healthy. … So I would like to see Abe Lucas play his best game before the bye, play a little cleaner, play a little faster, and be the impactful force that we have seen for years there at right tackle.”

Brock Huard answers three football questions during the Blue 88 segment, which airs at 7:45 a.m. weekdays on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk.

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