With Thomas Rawls taking the starting job, that’s two spots in Seattle’s backfield already spoken for. Earning a starting role in his second season, the Alabama product soared in his third year in 2018, collecting 10.5 sacks as a defensive tackle. Seattle Seahawks / 4th / 134th pick / 2015: C: Justin Britt: 25: 2: 15: Seattle Seahawks / 2nd / 64th pick / 2014: RG: Germain Ifedi: 22: Rook: 13: Seattle Seahawks / 1st / 31st pick / 2016: RT: Garry Gilliam: 26: 2: 13: Defensive Starters: LDE: Michael Bennett * 31: 7: 11: 5.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 0 fumbles recovered: LDT: Ahtyba Rubin: 30: 8: 16: 1.0 sacks, 0 interceptions, 0 fumbles recovered Redo selection: Michael Thomas, WR, Ohio State. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. "He had an unusually short career," said John Morgan in his book about the Seahawks, "short even for a short-lived position." You can find all our coverage on the FanSided fantasy football hub or check out the related content box. [43], Rawls regressed for the second straight season in 2017. This year, the Seahawks running backs will be without Lynch after the star retired by hanging up his cleats (on Twitter anyways) on Super Bowl Sunday last season. Today, we’ll switch from the AFC back to the NFC as we look at the NFC West starting in the Pacific Northwest. The coaching staff put their trust in me. I don’t mean he collapsed, I mean Lynch often bent his knees and halted his motion like Barry Sanders Lite before picking his crease and exploding into it. Pro Football Focus gave him raving reviews with an 86.1 grade for the 2019 season, better than Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz. I was captivated. [32] Rawls continued his breakout campaign with touchdowns against the Steelers and Vikings in Weeks 12 and 13, respectively. In any case, Brooks is a long shot to make it past the 75-man roster cuts on September 1st, but he’ll have a fighting chance at training camp at least. Well Rawls approaches with all the run of the river behind him and only the slightest variation of speed as when the stick hesitates while water buffers at the lip edge and then before the second thought Rawls has already poured himself through the hole. No, you can’t see the actual running lanes well but the good old-fashioned sideline view is still probably the best perspective to gauge a running back’s approach to a line of scrimmage and his acceleration or power through the hole, because from that angle you can most clearly see his motion compared to the original spot and changes of speed relative to any push attained by the blocking up front. The Grand Valley State alum has improved every year and reached the Pro Bowl in 2019, getting his first nod with 9.5 sacks and a whopping 33 quarterback hits, the fourth-most in the NFL. Last year, he reached new heights, setting an NFL record with 149 receptions for a league-best 1,725 yards. 90), Alex Collins (No. Make sure to check out my top 12 fantasy football sleepers from Preseason Week 2 to get up to speed on the latest emerging options. And the same initiation of contact afterward too, the way Rawls plows downhill into tacklers like a Phillips screwdriver being used to strip paint. [41] He finished the 2016 regular season with 349 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. 2016 Preview: A look ahead at the AFC North, Power Rankings: Ranking the top five NFL broadcasters, Big Money: The five most expensive NFL games of 2016. Pro Football Focus has handed him at least a 72.0 grade in each of the last three seasons. [31] Rawls also made NFL history as the first player with 250-plus scrimmage yards, a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown in the same game. In a stadium where bizarre things have happened nearly every time the Seahawks and Cardinals rekindle their rivalry, which NFC West contender will come out on top in a pivotal Sunday Night Football clash? Injured Reserve. With their win against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 15, the Seahawks claimed their third NFC West title in the last four years. Prosise (No. NFL Week 7 Fantasy POV: Start RB’s Kamara, Elliott; sit Fournette, FanDuel NFL single game contest: Sunday Night Football player picks, Jonnu Smith will be key for Titans holding off Steelers, Michael Thomas’ return is in jeopardy because of hamstring injury, Fantasy Football 2016 Preview: San Diego Chargers running backs, Fantasy Football 2016 Preview: Dallas Cowboys wide receivers, Fantasy Football 2016 Preview: Kansas City Chiefs running backs. There’s nothing that says because they resemble one another running on a field they share some curse or any propensity to injury. After signing a new two-year deal, Reed could still contribute and validate this selection even further. This season only one is an undrafted free agent, and that’s Tre Madden from USC. [20] Rawls was viewed as a late-round draft pick going into the 2015 NFL draft.[21]. Seattle went 12-4 without him but lost to the Dolphins in the divisional round, changing the course of Seahawks history and stranding the previous year’s playoff upset as the club’s most significant win for more than 20 years. [46] He was released on September 1, 2018. Indeed they’d probably prefer Curt Warner’s. Redo selection: Matt Judon, DE, Grand Valley State. [44] He finished the season with 157 rushing yards on 58 carries to go along with nine receptions for 94 yards. Rawls currently holds the Seahawks' record for the most single game rushing yards by a rookie running back (209) and the most rushing yards by an undrafted rookie in his first 6 games (711). More famously Mike Anderson posted 1,487 yards (5.0 ypa) in 2000 as Terrell Davis’s heir in Denver, but he contributed only 2,580 yards in six years (4.1 ypa) after that and only ever reached 1,000 yards again once more, in 2005. Expected Return - Week 8, Back: Questionable for Week 8 vs. San Francisco, Neck: IR. [3] He was a unanimous All-State selection, was named Most Valuable Player in the Saginaw Valley League, Player of the Year on The Flint Journal's All-Area Team, he had offers from University of Michigan, Central Michigan, Toledo and Cincinnati[4][5] In the 2017 draft, Seattle selected three safeties and a cornerback. Here’s hoping for the best from Seattle’s young running back, and gratitude that with Alex Collins, Christine Michael and C.J. Over the remaining weeks of the Preseason, we’ll continue to examine the important fantasy options on each NFL team. Rawls in 2015 had almost 180 fewer carries than Warner’s 1983, and there are plenty of other variables beside, but it was easy to see in the similarity in their games the same all-world promise that lifts Rawls into glory in our imaginations. His arrest led to his indefinite suspension from Central Michigan University's football team. Injured Reserve. [47], On September 19, 2018, Rawls was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals. The former LSU Tiger has started 34 games and appeared in 48 total contests over four years. I mean I had seen highlights. Mills had 13 tackles and five passes defended during those three postseason contests. [52] In October 2014, Rawls pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted larceny and was sentenced to a year's probation and 104 hours of community service. Original selection: Zac Brooks, RB, Clemson. Playing defensive end and tackle, the Maryland alum offered versatility that is welcomed on any defense. The Seahawks defeated the Detroit Lions in the Wild Card Round, but lost to the eventual NFC champion Atlanta Falconsin the Divisio… Traveling to Arizona after taking a week off, Seattle endured another roller-coaster affair during its annual trip to State Farm Stadium, which has proven to be a house of horrors over the last several seasons. Campbell played his first four years for Dan Quinn and the Falcons, playing a very similar defense in Atlanta to Seattle's scheme under Pete Carroll, Quinn's mentor. However, this time, the Seahawks should not be so quick to release Collins following his rookie year. But the key is I’m only comparing Rawls’s style to Warner as a rookie. As one of the NFL's top superstars, Wilson had an opportunity to make a statement on Thursday when pressed about the possibility of Antonio Brown joining Seattle. Though Seattle remained with their original pick of Collins at running back in the fifth round in this imaginary scenario, we now know that he would likely not have lasted past the 2018 season due to legal trouble and would not be the starting running back heading into the 2020 season. Seattle could have used the depth that Barber provides, given the team's turbulent situation at running back following Lynch's departure before the 2016 season. Playing up to that description, this team endured plenty of struggles on both sides of the football as their undefeated streak came to an end. Collins ran into legal trouble ahead of the 2019 season and was released by Baltimore. If they had hung on to him for just one more season, things might have broken differently in 2017, a year in which Seattle missed the playoffs by one game.

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