Most years for the Seattle Seahawks, injury news like Mychal Kendricks reported broken tibia ending his season would be devastating for the player and organization alike considering the circumstances. With Kendricks mostly aboard because regular veteran starter K.J. Wright's knee problems in 2018, past years may have presented no viable options to even come close to approximating Kendricks or Wright's presence on the field.

This season, the Seahawks have more depth than ever at the linebacker position which mixes youth and experience and they have been able to survive without Wright and Kendricks for most of the season. Wright's only appeared in three and a half games in 2018 and Kendricks season will end having only appeared in four total games. While Austin Calitro can step into the role without issue; he's not the player of Wright or Kendricks. His continually being sent back to the bench when either return proves that.

So the next question with news of Kendricks' season coming to end, after who will start in week 15, is when will Wright be able to return from a second stint on the shelf due to his knee injury? With only three weeks remaining, the Seahawks are running out of time to get him back during the regular season; although Carroll was optimistic he would return before the playoffs. Just a game from clinching their playoff spot, the Seahawks are running out of games to make it worth their while to play Wright before January.

Still, he's on track to return before the calendar flips to playoff time at the end of the month but as far as week 15 is concerned, don't expect him back to try to help the Seahawks clinch their playoff spot versus the San Francisco 49ers.

“Today was his first day of really running. I don’t know what the result was," Carroll said on Friday. "Leading up to it, all of the ramping up has been really on point. He’s felt no discomfort at all. That’s a really positive sign for him to get right. It’s going to still be a bit because we got to get him back into shape and all that because he’s missed some time.”

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The Seahawks are dealing with their second attempt to get Wright ... umm well ... right for 2018. He was initially set to return in week three or four following his knee scope in preseason week four. After he suffered a setback because his return date was set too soon, they shut him down until after the bye. He played in weeks seven, eight and nine without much issue but suffered a second setback in week 10 and didn't make it through the entire matchup versus the Los Angeles Rams that week.

Carroll and the organization vowed to shut him down until he could return and stay back and he hasn't appeared in four-straight affairs.

Now, he sounds to be through the woods of injury recovery and back into conditioning mode to seal his return. If the Seahawks win in week 15 without him, which is likely, they could be targeting week 17 as a date to return. Without much stakes, it would be a warmup game for him where he would probably play limited snaps but would get enough work to warm him up for the Wild Card game.

Stakes or not, week 17 may be the earliest he can return anyway. By Carroll's words, week 15 sounds out of the question but week 16 and 17 can't be ruled out without a definitive timeline. The Seahawks have yet to give one.

But with the loss of Kendricks, the Seahawks are one injury away from needing Wright back sooner than latter. Lucky for them, he's close enough for sooner to be a possibility. It's all conditioning now.