DavidCruz24
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Seeing the end of the Lynch era has been depressing for me this season. It has become very clear that he is not coming back next season and many of us started to realize how lucky we were to have a generational runner tear it up for the Seahawks every Sunday. I felt like the team was going to lose its edge without Lynch, lose its nasty, its identity and without an heir to him the future of our run game was looking pretty grim. The best most teams can look forward to after losing a special talent is the hope that the next guy can at most be competent and in the beginning of the season our options at replacing Lynch were a 4th year back up (Turbin) and a 3rd year high round pick that had been a disappointment (Michael). Unless John and Pete were planning to pick a guy in next years draft there wasn't much to get excited about. But then when it was all looking dark the gods blessed us.
Thomas Rawls came out of nowhere and has balled out this season. An undrafted free agent that none of us would have expected to be this good has flashed talent that has made the future much much brighter. I think he has star RB potential and although he has yet to prove he can handle the wear and tear of an NFL season before that freak injury I say he was dealing with it just fine. He will never be Lynch but he has his own special skills and if he can live up to the potential he flashed this season he will be a bargain on the level that Wilson was for this team. For a team that has payed all of its great players big money an elite RB on the cheap is like icing on the cake. How lucky are we? I say alot.
Thomas Rawls came out of nowhere and has balled out this season. An undrafted free agent that none of us would have expected to be this good has flashed talent that has made the future much much brighter. I think he has star RB potential and although he has yet to prove he can handle the wear and tear of an NFL season before that freak injury I say he was dealing with it just fine. He will never be Lynch but he has his own special skills and if he can live up to the potential he flashed this season he will be a bargain on the level that Wilson was for this team. For a team that has payed all of its great players big money an elite RB on the cheap is like icing on the cake. How lucky are we? I say alot.