Larry Tripplett is out with a knee injury.

Chris Cooper is out with a leg injury.

There were no specifics on either injury. They are hopeful both are back within a week. Neither will play in tomorrow's scrimage.

We met with the officials at 1:30, and they went over some of the rules changes for the upcoming season. The most prominent is the force-out rule, and if a player does not get his feet down and is forced out of bounds it is now an incomplete pass. The caveat to that is if he is clearly going to come down but a player carries him out. The force-out happens far less often than you would guess, the referee who sat with us, Pete Morelli, saying about 14 times last season.

Other rules changes:

* There are no 5-yard facemasks any more. Only 15-yard intentional facemask penalties.

* A direct snap from center to QB that is not touched is now a live ball. It used to be dead if it was not touched.

* All muffed handoffs are now live balls.

* An offensive player (Marion Barber) can no longer grab a defensive player's facemask or it is a 15-yard penalty.

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This was an interesting practice, which ended with a two-minute drill in which both the first team and second team offenses scored game-winning touchdowns. Both offenses were bailed out by nice catches by their tight ends right up the middle of the field, John Carlson for the first team and Joe Newton for the second team.

The first team was facing a third and 5 when Matt Hasselbeck made a perfect pass over Carlson shoulder for the first down. Three plays later, Hasselbeck found Leonard Weaver on the left side for an eight-yard TD.

The second team seemed to be stymied, facing a fourth and 9 after Mansfield Wrotto failed to snap the ball for an illegal procedure penalty. (It was his third snapping miscue of the day.) But Seneca Wallace found Newton sprinting down the middle of the field for a first down. One play later, Wallace hit Joel Filani in the back of the end zone for a touchdown.

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I have to head out to practice, but defensive tackle Red Bryant needs to have arthroscopic surgery to repair the knee injury that we wrote about yesterday. He will miss the rest of training camp. This now makes things more interesting for Chris Cooper and Larry Tripplett, who should get more reps with Bryant out. I'll get more details at practice.

We take a spin around the NFC West this morning, starting, of course, with the Seahawks.

Seattle Seahawks

Jason Cole of Yahoo Sports checks in with the Seahawks, focusing on the relationship between quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and his receivers.

Wondering how some of the Seahawks rank as fantasy drafts loom? Check this link.

The Everett Herald’s Scott Johnson has a profile on fullback Leonard Weaver, who seems to have cemented himself as the starter.

Gregg Bell of the Associated Press has a similar story on Weaver.

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Former Seahawks defensive back Ken Lucas got into a scrape this morning with receiver Steve Smith and it sounds like he got pummeled. Here is the link.