Seattle Won Sunday. Now Comes the Part Drew Lock Has Never Been Good At.

Drew Lock got the Seahawks home in Week 1, and that's worth noting. A defending champion doesn't stumble out of the gate, and whatever Lock did to preserve that — the grounding here doesn't give me a box score, and I'm not going to invent one — the result is a win. Fine. Good, even.

The harder question arrives this week. Sam Darnold is listed as doubtful, and Jalen Milroe — the quarterback the depth chart shows as the nominal backup — is out. That leaves Lock as the guy, and Lock has spent most of his career being a quarterback who looks functional until the margin for error disappears. He has had moments. He has also had stretches that remind you why he's been a backup for years. A Week 1 win against whatever the schedule handed Seattle is one data point. Sustaining it, with this offense built around Darnold's command of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and the rest of that receiving corps, is a different ask.

The supporting cast can carry weight. Smith-Njigba is as good a No. 1 receiver as anyone in the league right now, and Kenneth Walker III gives the offense a legitimate ground game to lean on. My read is that Seattle's best path through a Darnold absence is a run-heavy, low-variance approach that doesn't ask Lock to win games — just to not lose them. That's a workable plan for a week, maybe two. It gets harder the longer this goes.

Darnold's doubtful tag is the one to watch between now and the weekend. If he's back, this is a footnote. If he's not, the next ten days will tell us something real about how deep this championship roster actually runs.