George Holani Camp Update — August 23: The Opening Above Him Is Closing

George Holani spent the week as he spent the last one: healthy, available, and absent from the reporting. No Holani entry appeared in the accessed coverage of Monday's practice or Friday's joint practice with the Titans in Nashville — no charted carries, no coach mention, nothing. In a backfield this thin, being the healthy back nobody writes about is itself a data point.

The movement all happened above him. Jadarian Price, the first-round rookie, returned to full-speed practice Monday with the first-team offense and took team-period reps in Nashville on Friday, drawing "he's a really special player" from Sam Darnold, per Bob Condotta at The Seattle Times and the team's website. Jacardia Wright returned Monday, and the team signed rookie back Anthony Hankerson, per Condotta. Emanuel Wilson stayed out and Zach Charbonnet stayed on the physically-unable-to-perform list, so the room is still shorthanded — but the specific opening June identified, real early-down work falling to Holani by process of elimination, shrinks every day Price looks more ready.

Back in June the preview called Holani's value purely a function of the depth chart above him, and the presumptive lead back running team periods again is that function moving the wrong way. Seattle plays the Titans today in Nashville after this episode is filed, and with cutdown Sunday, that game and the finale are the last auditions on the calendar. What to watch: Holani's carries and snaps in those games, and the roster call itself. We'll check after cut day.

_Data via nflverse._