"Wide receiver Sidney Rice has undergone surgery to repair a shoulder injury that kept him out the first two games of this season.

Rice was placed on injured reserve on Nov. 30 after suffering two concussions in the span of three games.

At the time he went on injured reserve, there was no indication he would be undergoing surgery.

Coach Pete Carroll said Rice didn't suffer a setback per se, but there was a decision made to undergo surgery.

"Some time ago, we knew he was going to have surgery," Carroll said. "We just put it off to this date. I don't know exactly why it was put it off to this date, but there has been a few weeks we could have put it off earlier.""