Seahawks Accused of ‘Soft Benching’ Sam Darnold After Poor Displays

The Seattle Seahawks announced via head coach Mike McDonald that quarterback Sam Darnold would miss Week 9's game hosting the Arizona Cardinals with a quad injury suffered on Monday night against the Chicago Bears. https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/2118053014779187595 "Seahawks QB Sam Darnold will be out Sunday vs. Arizona due to quad injury, per HC Mike Macdonald." Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday. However, according to certain figures online and in and around the Seahawks media coverage, this could just be an excuse to enact a "soft benching" on the QB.