Seahawks' Drew Lock limited Wednesday but on track to start at Las Vegas

Drew Lock was a limited participant in practice Wednesday, and the Seattle Seahawks still plan to start him Sunday at Las Vegas. Sam Darnold sat out practice entirely and has already been ruled out for the Raiders game, ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports reported. Darnold is dealing with rib and quad injuries, and Seattle has its bye the following week, so his earliest realistic return is Week 12.

USA TODAY Sports also reported Lock's limited session. The team's official injury report lists him with right elbow and oblique injuries. PFT described the second injury as a quadriceps problem, but the club's report says oblique. The elbow is not new. Lock was limited for three straight weeks before last Sunday, and he hurt the oblique in that game. To spare him some work, Jalen Milroe is expected to take some first-team snaps this week, NBC Sports' Rotoworld reported.

Lock's first start went well enough. He completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown in the 17-3 win over Arizona, ran five times for 16 yards and played every offensive snap. He did it while banged up, and the injury list around him has grown since.

Seven Seahawks missed Wednesday's practice. Besides Darnold, tackle Charles Cross (ankle), guard Quenton Nelson (knee) and defensive tackles Brandon Pili (back), Jarran Reed (personal) and Leonard Williams (stinger) sat out. Wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba got a rest day. Guard Anthony Bradford and linebackers Derick Hall, Uchenna Nwosu, Patrick O'Connell and Connor O'Toole were limited, CBS Sports and PFT reported. With both Cross and Nelson out, Lock could be working behind a patched-up line while managing a sore throwing elbow.

What it means for Sunday at Las Vegas

Seattle is 5-4 and has alternated wins and losses over its last four games. It beat Kansas City 20-3, lost 34-17 to Chicago and then held Arizona to a field goal. The defense has allowed three points in two of those four games. Over the season, Seattle has scored 202 points and allowed 162, about 22.4 points per game on offense and 18.0 on defense. The road has been harder: Seattle is 1-2 away from home, with one-score losses at Denver and Washington. The game kicks off Sunday, Nov. 15, on CBS.

The market treats Lock's start as manageable. Seattle is favored by 6.5 points across the 12 venues on this site's board. On Novig, the Seahawks' moneyline is -264 and the Raiders' is +257. The spread prices are -106 on Seattle and +104 on Las Vegas, and the total is 40.5 with both sides at -104. The bigger difference is in the margins. Novig's two moneyline prices together imply a margin of about half a percentage point. The sportsbooks' moneyline hold runs from 3.4% to 4.9%, and their spread hold runs from 2.9% to 4.8%. Live prices are on the game page, and more coverage is on our Seahawks page.

Thursday's report will show whether Lock's workload goes up. Either way, Seattle is preparing for him to make a second straight start.