Tag: Marshawn Lynch

Seahawks host 3 FA running backs for tryouts on Monday

Marshawn Lynch, Robert Turbin and C.J. Anderson all worked out for the Seattle Seahawks on Monday, along with five defensive tackles.

Marshawn Lynch was among a handful of players who worked out for the Seattle Seahawks at the team’s practice facility on Monday.

Joining Lynch was a pair of veteran running backs, Robert Turbin and C.J. Anderson, as well as a group of defensive tackles; Mike Hughes, Tomasi Laulile, Chris Nelson, Shakir Soto and Andrew Williams.

Seattle is looking to replace Chris Carson and C.J. Prosise, who each suffered season-ending injuries on Sunday against the Cardinals.

They are also looking for another defensive tackle to take Bryan Mone’s spot on the practice squad. Mone was promoted to the active roster to replace Al Woods, who was suspended four games for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing drugs.

Lynch’s visit was reported by Pete Carroll Monday morning on 710 ESPN’s morning radio show, and Turbin was in town last week for a visit as well. The two of them formed a running back tandem for the Seahawks from 2012-2014, winning a Super Bowl together in the 2013 season.

Anderson joined the Rams in the final two games of the regular season last year and tore up the 49ers in Week 17, rushing for 132 yards and a touchdown.

Seattle would love for him do that two years in a row, and his recent success may make him a more practical solution for Seattle in the short-term.

The Seahawks are almost certainly going to sign two running backs this week, and it seems likely it will be some combination of the three that were in town on Monday.

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WATCH: Marshawn Lynch heads to Seattle to discuss possible Seahawks return

Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return

The Seattle Seahawks are in desperate need of a running back after losing both Chris Carson (hip) and C.J. Prosise (broken arm) for the rest of the season Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.

So, per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return:

Mike Garafolo reported on Twitter: “The #Seahawks are badly in need of RB help and would welcome the chat about a return. We’ll see where this goes today.”

Lynch hasn’t suited up since October 2018, when he suffered a groin injury with the Oakland Raiders. Beast Mode was a fan favorite with the Seahawks, helping the franchise to its first-ever Super Bowl championship and racking up four of his five career Pro Bowl nods during his six seasons there.

Seattle Times reporter Bob Condotta says the team is likely to sign at least two running backs, and that C.J. Anderson and Robert Turbin are also in the mix.

A Marshawn Lynch reunion would give Seahawks shot in the arm

The Seattle Seahawks need a boost of energy and morale, along with help at running back. Marshawn Lynch would bring all that and more.

The Seattle Seahawks are limping into their crucial Week 17 matchup with the San Francisco 49ers, a game that will determine who wins the NFC West.

Seattle is bruised, battered, dejected and worn down after an injury-ravaged, lackluster loss to the Cardinals in Week 16.

With health and spirits at an all-time low, the team needs some kind of shock to the system, a burst of energy, an injection of attitude, swagger and popularity to help pull them out of this funk and help them earn that final win of the regular season and an NFC West championship.

If they can get all that at once, and also get some help on the field at a key position of need, then what are they waiting for?

Well, in the case of trying to bring back veteran running back Marshawn Lynch, they aren’t waiting at all.

“He’ll be flying in here this morning and we’re going to give him a really good chance to come back and play for us,” coach Pete Carroll said of Lynch. “I’m fired up for it. He’s got some hoops he’s got to jump through here – physical and stuff like that – but he’s been working really hard. He’s really excited about the chance to do something and help out. I think it’s frickin great.”

It’s hard to know exactly what Lynch brings to the table from a football perspective. He last played on October 14, 2018 (against Seattle) and at age 33, there may not be much left in the tank.

But the Seahawks don’t need Lynch to come in and rush for 100 yards on 20 carries. Heck, they may bring him in as a backup to rookie Travis Homer.

Seattle needs an energy boost, and while there may be a Starbucks on every corner, adding Lynch is like chugging a Monster energy drink – which could be the key ingredient to beating San Francisco on Sunday night.

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Irish in the NFL: C.J. Prosise breaks arm, done for season

Former Notre Dame running back C.J. Prosise broke his arm for the Seattle Seahawks, and will be out the rest of the season.

Former Notre Dame running back C.J. Prosise, now with the Seattle Seahawks, suffered a broken arm on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals and will miss the rest of the season.

Prosise had four carries for 14 yards before exiting into the locker room and not returning.

Prosise has a lengthy injury history, which has hampered his career in Seattle, although he had managed to stay healthy all season in 2019.

Still, thanks to the Seahawks tandem of Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny, Prosise only garnered 23 carries for 72 yards and a touchdown, along with 10 receptions for 76 yards out of the backfield.

Carson, Penny and now Prosise are all out for the season however, forcing Seattle to consider coaxing Marshawn Lynch out of retirement for the final week of the regular season.

Coming up on free agency, it’s possible Prosise has played his final game in a Seattle uniform.

Prosise exploded his senior year at Notre Dame, rushing for over 1000 yards and 11 touchdowns. He had previously been more of a receiver, totaling nearly 900 yards receiving while in South Bend.

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Report: Marshawn Lynch could be back with Seahawks, and please let this happen

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

BEAST MODE! BACK! IN SEATTLE!? YES!!!

That’s basically the second-by-second reaction I had to the reports — first from the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and then from ESPN’s Adam Schefter — at the possibility that legendary running back Marshawn Lynch might sign with the Seahawks in time to face the 49ers in Week 17 and then play for the franchise in the playoffs.

Even head coach Pete Carroll is talking about it like it’s close to a possibility: “We’re going to give him a really good chance to come back and play for us.”

To which I say: PLEASE. Make this happen.

Lynch brings with him so much both on and off the field.

On it, we get a player who last played a down in 2018 and was still averaging 4.2 yards per carry for the Oakland Raiders. He’s going to be fresh for what could be a Seahawks playoff run on a team that likes to rush A LOT. You can bet that if Seattle wants to sign him to replace the injured Chris Carson, he’s in shape and will no doubt be his usual Beast Mode self, and that could mean he has the power to change a playoff game with one run:

He could break Twitter if he pulls off one of those.

Off the field: this tweet sums some of it up:

This could also mean we get some classic Lynch interviews with the media, which are endlessly entertaining:

We didn’t know it until Monday, but we NEED Marshawn Lynch back in a Seattle uniform for the playoffs.

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6 running backs the Seattle Seahawks could sign for Week 17

The Seattle Seahawks are already flying Marshawn Lynch in for a visit. Here are six other options they could look to sign as replacements.

Things went from bad to worse for the Seattle Seahawks after Sunday’s backbreaking 27-13 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, when it was announced postgame that both Chris Carson (hip) and C.J. Prosise (broken arm) are expected to miss the rest of the season.

With Rashaad Penny (ACL) already on the shelf, the Seahawks are down to just one healthy running back, rookie Travis Homer, on the active roster.

The team does have Xavier Turner, who played quite a bit with Seattle during the preseason, on the practice squad, but it’s pretty clear this team will need to find some veteran help on the free-agent market to help get them through their crucial Week 17 matchup with the 49ers, as well as their playoff games.

“We have to get to scrambling, Johnny’s [Schneider] got to get to work and figure out what we’re doing next,” coach Pete Carroll said immediately after the game. “That’s a lot of game for Homer to have to play by himself. So, obviously, we will make some moves here, and figure some stuff out.”

The Seahawks are flying former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch into town on Monday to visit. If he is healthy, both sides are interested in a reunion and an agreement could come together in short order.

However, Lynch may not be the only signing the team makes (if they sign him at all) and there are still plenty of other options the team could bring in alongside, or instead of, Beast Mode.

Here are six veteran free agent running backs, not including Lynch, who I believe will hear from Pete Carroll and/or John Schneider this week – and my opinion on why they would or wouldn’t be a good fit to sign with the team.

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Marshawn Lynch is en route to Seattle for a possible Seahawks reunion

The last time we saw Marshawn Lynch, he was handing out tequila shots in the Raiders’ stadium parking lot. Now, he might be back in the NFL.

The last time we saw former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, he was handing out tequila shots in the “C” lot of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum ahead of the Raiders’ last home game in Oakland before their 2020 move to Las Vegas.

That was last week. This week, per Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, Lynch is on his way to Seattle to discuss the possibility of a reunion with the team he played with from 2010 through 2015.

“He’ll be flying in here this morning and we’re going to give him a really good chance to come back and play for us,” Carroll said during his weekly radio hit on Seattle’s ESPN radio station. “I’m fired up for it. He’s got some hoops he’s got to jump through here – physical and stuff like that – but he’s been working really hard. He’s really excited about the chance to do something and help out. I think it’s frickin’ great.”

It would absolutely be frickin’ great, if Lynch has anything left in the tank. He hasn’t played since Week 6 of the 2018 season, when he gained 45 yards on 13 carries for the Raiders against Seattle, adding in three catches for 14 yards. Lynch gained 376 yards and scored three rushing touchdowns on 90 carries before a groin injury ended his season, and, we thought, his career.

It was Lynch’s second retirement. He also hung ’em up after the 2015 season, when injuries also limited him to just six games. When he returned a year later, it was to play for his hometown team in Oakland.

It’s a longshot, but the Seahawks don’t have much going on at running back right now. Chris Carson, Rashad Penny, and C.J. Procise are all out with injuries, and Carroll’s team has a huge matchup with the 49ers this Sunday night for control of the NFC West and much of the NFC playoff picture.

Originally selected by the Bills with the 12th overall pick in the 2007 draft out of Cal, Lynch was traded to Seattle three games into the 2010 season for a 2011 fourth-round pick and a 2012 fifth-round pick. That turned into perhaps the best deal the Seahawks have made in the Carroll era. Lynch gained 6,347 yards and scored 57 rushing touchdowns on 1,457 carries for Seattle over six years, and he also gave a young team under construction a sense of toughness and consistency when it was absolutely needed. His 67-yard “Beastquake” touchdown run against the Saints in the 2010 playoffs is still the highlight by which all other Seahawks highlights are measured.

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We’ll see if the reunion actually happens, but what a ride it would be if Lynch can return to the scene of so many of his classic moments for one last bunch of big plays.

Marshawn Lynch en route to Seattle to visit with Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are in desperate need of a running back and will be hosting former superstar Marshawn Lynch for a visit on Monday.

The Seattle Seahawks are in desperate need of a running back after losing three this season to injuries. Rashaad Penny first tore his ACL, then Chris Carson and C.J. Prosise left the game Week 16 and are both likely done for the year.

With arguably the biggest matchup of the regular season less than a week away, Seattle will have to make a couple of roster moves to shore up the position and assist rookie Travis Homer, the lone healthy running back on the active squad.

The Seahawks will likely host a number of players on tryouts, but no name stands out more than former superstar, Marshawn Lynch, who just may be open to a reunion in Seattle.

Coach Pete Carroll was asked about the potential visit during his Monday morning radio show on 710 ESPN Seattle and confirmed what every fan has been hoping for.

“He’ll be flying in here this morning and we’re going to give him a really good chance to come back and play for us,” Carroll said. “I’m fired up for it. He’s got some hoops he’s got to jump through here – physical and stuff like that – but he’s been working really hard. He’s really excited about the chance to do something and help out. I think it’s frickin great.”

Lynch isn’t the only former Seahawks running back who could rejoin the squad. Robert Turbin could also make a return to Seattle.

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Marshawn Lynch heads to Seattle to discuss possible Seahawks return

Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return

Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return

Marshawn Lynch heads to Seattle to discuss possible Seahawks return (Seahawkswire)

Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return

Per reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo, former Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is heading to Seattle to meet with the team about a return