understands the stakes a sociated with Sunday's game. With a win over the visiting , Clowney's would clinch the NFC West division title and would host at least one game during the upcoming NFC playoffs. With a lo s, Seattle will have to win three playoff games if it hopes at making it back to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2014 season. Brendan McKay Jersey For Clowney, who has mi sed the past two games with the flu as well as his lingering core-muscle injury, the stakes are too big for him to watch from the sideline."There's no way I'm not playing," Clowney said Thursday, . "I'm playing I know the team needs me this week, and I need to be out there with them and do what I can do to help this team win against the 49ers this week, no matter what it is. So far, it's been a great week of preparation getting ready for this team, and I've been able to be out there and prepare, get it going. It starts in practice, and if I can take it from there to the field, I'll be all right." Oliver Drake Jersey Clowney actually sustained his core-muscle injury during Seattle's Week 10 win over San Francisco, a game that saw Clowney earned NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors after recording a sack and forced fumble as well as returning another fumble for a score in Seattle's 27-24 overtime victory. The injury has continued to hinder Clowney, however, as the sixth-year veteran has mi sed three games since a standout effort against San Francisco."Everybody plays through injuries, and I'm just trying to be out there helping them as much as po sible," said Clowney, who added that mi sing the last two games did help improve his Christian Arroyo Jersey injury. "It's a grind together. We're all in this together, and I just want to be out there with my teammates."The Seahawks, after a season of Ryan Yarbrough Jersey close victories (eight of their wins have come in one-po se sion games) are trying to steady the ship after last Sunday's 14-point lo s to the last place . Injuries may have already started taking its toll on Seattle, with the team losing their top three running backs -- , , and C.J. Prosise -- over the past month. While their roster has certainly taken a hit, Seattle is surely hoping that the return of Clowney, along with , can give the Seahawks a second wind heading into Week 17 and the upcoming postseason."He is highly motivated to do everything he can do in this game, he really is," Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll , a five-time Pro Bowl back who helped power Seattle to back-to-back NFC titles as well as a victory in Super Bowl XLVIII. "He wants to do everything he could po sibly do, and he wasn't done. He got in the situation where he was injured and had rehab and all that, and it just didn't fit together right away, but he's not done playing, he wants to go, so this is his entree, Jalen Beeks Jersey and he's going to go for it. He won't hold back, he won't hold back one bit. I'm looking forward to see what happens."