Alright let’s speak operating backs.
We’ll keep on offense yet another time and take a look at any potential franchise data which are up for grabs subsequent season.
A fast look exhibits just one present NFL participant and no present Seattle Seahawks wherever close to the top-5 in whole dashing yards.
Good grief, Shaun Alexander.
For the document, Chris Carson is eighth total, after retiring on the finish of 2021.
This isn’t to say that the 2024 Seahawks are out of this explicit dialog. I’m completely fascinated by what Ryan Grubb may do with these new guards. Simply the opposite day I had a dream the place Kenneth Walker didn’t get hit behind the road of scrimmage and let me inform you the pure pleasure that carried with me by way of the morning hours.
Two statistics stand out as potential for Walker to make some noise this 12 months.
Touchdowns
Kenneth Walker finds himself eleventh in Seattle historical past with 17 touchdowns. If that feels odd to you it does to me as nicely. A 3-touchdown season would transfer him as much as ninth. An 11-TD season would tie him for fifth in workforce historical past with Sherman Smith from the Nineteen Seventies.
Does 11 really feel attainable? He hit 9 his rookie season.
As a matter of reality, Seattle hasn’t had a double-digit landing season from a operating again since Marshawn Lynch in 2014. That will even be a welcome first.
Yards Per Carry
Name it the altering of the sport, name it the trendy athlete, or name it Pete Carroll philosophy. I don’t know which, however the YPC of latest days stands out.
The three finest backs on a per-carry foundation, in franchise historical past, are Carson, Walker, and Rashaad Penny.*
*minimal 300 workforce carries.
These numbers are 5.7 for Penny, 4.6 for Carson, and 4.4 for Walker.
Truthfully, 4.4 YPC isn’t even an elite mark for a single season. That places you precisely in the midst of the NFL final season; fifteenth.
That is one which significantly intrigues me. Can Ryan Grubb get the offensive line to the purpose the place Walker may emerge as one of the environment friendly backs in Seahawks historical past? Not like Penny, who would seemingly run both 80 yards forwards or two yards backwards of his personal volition, we watched a number of dozen carries final 12 months that ought to have been for a loss, that Walker was two or three.
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This has at all times been the energy of his sport and I for one would like to see his second missed sort out be pressured on the five-yard mark as a substitute of behind the road of scrimmage. I feel his yards after contact potential is immense.
A 1,000-yard season will get Walker into the top-10 and previous Maurice Morris, however I’m significantly if we may get some consistency out of again for the primary time in an extended, very long time.
