KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks safety Ken Hamlin keeps
progressing in his recovery from being assaulted two weeks ago.
Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said Monday that Hamlin is "doing better" while recuperating at his home one week after doctors
released Hamlin from Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. He
entered intensive care there Oct. 16 with a fractured skull, a
blood clot near the brain and bruised brain tissue.
"The encouraging thing to me is the word that I got today ... the headaches are not as intense," Holmgren said. "They've backed
off on some of his medications. That's all encouraging."
Encouraging enough for Holmgren to say the team has yet to determine whether Hamlin will miss the final nine games. The Seahawks (5-2) resume after a bye Sunday at Arizona. Holmgren did say the team is "closer to making that decision" on whether to place Hamlin on the season-ending injured reserve list.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Seattle police department said over the weekend the city's homicide investigation division is
searching for a possible link between Hamlin's assault by two men
and the subsequent homicide of a 31-year-old Seattle man. A jogger
found the man, Terrell Milam, a few hours later outside a park, 5½
miles away from Hamlin's beating. Milam's brother has said Milam
was one of the two who beat Hamlin.
The spokesman said detectives are continuing to interview
witnesses of the 2 a.m. fight outside a Pioneer Square nightclub.
Officers still believe others with firsthand knowledge of the
incident have yet to come forward to offer information.