The Seattle Seahawks have dealt with their fair share of injuries in the running back room in the last year. While Chris Carson (hip) is expected to be a full-go when training camp begins, the same cannot be said for Rashaad Penny (knee), who looks in danger of beginning the season on the PUP list.
That lack of depth showed up in a big way toward the end of last season, and is a big reason the team went ahead and signed veteran Carlos Hyde to an incentive-laden, one-year deal this offseason.
Hyde is coming off a very strong year in Houston, where he ran for a career-high 1,070 yards with the Texans. Most of those yards came while Hyde was nursing a torn labrum, one that he eventually had surgery on this offseason.
Hyde is rehabbing in Houston and told Seattle media members on Monday that rehab is going well, and he expects to be fully healthy for the start of the 2020 season.
“(COVID-19) hasn’t really stopped my rehab at all,” Hyde said. “I think I’m on time to participate when we get to (training) camp and everything, and by Week 1 I’m pretty sure I’ll be ready to go. I feel good. I feel like my shoulder has gotten a lot stronger than what it was feeling like before I got surgery. Things are definitely going in the right direction.”
Hyde suffered the injury in Week 2 of the 2019 season, but instead of missing any games he wrapped the shoulder up before the game and told himself if he, “ran hard enough, then nobody could hurt my shoulder.”
Hyde expects to compete for the No. 2 running back role, a job he will likely have if Penny is forced to miss time in 2020.
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