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Shohei Ohtani sat out Thursday's matchup against Seattle as the Dodgers held their superstar back with lingering soreness in his left knee. Los Angeles is calling it precautionary, but any time Ohtani's name shows up on the injury report, the baseball world pays attention. The Dodgers can't afford to push it.
Meanwhile, the NFL's free agent market just got a little smaller and the forty-niners just got a whole lot more interesting. Deebo Samuel is heading back to San Francisco on a one-year deal worth up to seven million dollars. After a season in Washington with the Commanders, the versatile playmaker is reuniting with Kyle Shanahan's offense at exactly the right moment, with injuries already mounting at wide receiver for the forty-niners.
And up in Renton, the Seattle Seahawks strapped on the pads for the first time this training camp on Thursday, marking day five of their two thousand twenty-six preseason work. The first padded practice is always a turning point in camp, the point where the physicality ramps up, competition gets real, and the depth chart starts taking shape in ways that film sessions simply cannot replicate.
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