NFL Week 6: Seattle's Tyler Lockett highlights Okies playing in primetime

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TULSA, Okla. — Sunday Night Football stops successful Pittsburgh successful Week 6 arsenic 2 of the NFL's much palmy
franchises implicit the past 2 decades collide.

The Steelers (2-3) are hosting the Seattle Seahawks (2-3) arsenic some teams woody with issues astatine the backmost position.

The Seahawks are without Russell Wilson for astatine slightest 4-6 weeks aft getting country for an injured digit earlier this week.

Geno Smith volition get the commencement for Seattle successful Pittsburgh.

The Steelers are facing a backmost contented of their ain arsenic 39-year-old Ben Roethlisberger ages arsenic astir pre-Tom Brady quarterbacks bash successful the NFL.

Roethlisberger has struggled since the extremity of the 2020 play with mobility that utilized to marque him 1 of the astir unsafe quarterbacks successful the league. He's been sacked 11 times already this play to spell on with 4 interceptions done six games.

Both teams volition beryllium looking to get backmost connected way successful primetime connected Sunday successful a crippled featuring a fistful of players Oklahomans would know.

Tyler Lockett is the biggest standout among those who've played successful the Sooner State.

Lockett, a Tulsa native, played for Booker T. Washington High School earlier playing wherever his begetter and uncle played shot astatine Kansas State.

He's disconnected to different large commencement this season, averaging supra his vocation averages successful catches per crippled and yards per game.

Kickoff is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. connected Sunday. Football sum connected KJRH-TV starts astatine 6 p.m.

Here are the different players who've played successful Oklahoma who are expected to beryllium connected the tract connected Sunday night:

Seattle Seahawks