The Seattle Seahawks are considering following Colin Kaepernick and making a protest of their own before their NFL opener against Miami on Sunday.

A number of Seahawks players said they had been discussing their options, and suggested they might be prepared to take a team-wide stand before the weekend’s game.

Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane, who sat for the national anthem during the pre-season game against the Raiders last Thursday, said he will continue not to stand, while receiver Doug Baldwin and linebacker Bobby Wagner said they had discussed a protest in the locker room.

Wagner insisted nothing had yet been decided, but said: “Anything we want to do, it’s not going to be individual. It’s going to be a team thing. That’s what the world needs to see. The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals.”

He added: “Whatever we decide to do will be a big surprise.”

Baldwin said: “Our locker room has discussed it. So we’ll see.”

Kaepernick, the back-up 49ers quarterback, has drawn criticism and praise since he opted not to stand for the pre-game rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner in protest at police brutality and oppression of minorities.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said he has talked to Lane, who confirmed he will be “standing behind Kaepernick”, and that the team has no problem with whatever he decides to do. “He’s pretty clear on what he did and what he was trying to express and I think it is very simple and so we’ll leave that up to him,” Carroll said. “But he understands the responsibility of it, I think, and shouldering it.’’

The Seahawks kick off their regular season at CenturyLink Field against the Dolphins, on the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

“I think that anybody should be thinking about that,” Baldwin said. “Even if it wasn’t September 11, the point of the protest is to get people to think. I think it’s ironic that 15 years ago is one of the most devastating times in US history, and after that day we were probably the most unified that we’ve ever been. And today you struggle to see the unity.”