Forgotten rb

[Seahawkwalt1967]

Kenny McIntosh. He could play a significant role next year. Coming off an ACl injury is a big if. The talent is absolutely there.

 

[glenwo2]

Kenny McIntosh. He could play a significant role next year. Coming off an ACl injury is a big if. The talent is absolutely there.

holy crap!

I completely forgot about him.

Does he also get a ring?

 

[Seahawkwalt1967]

He does!

 

[Mick063]

Jacardia Wright is the primary reason why I could stomach Walker's departure with little anxiety. This young man has a very high ceiling and is embarrassingly inexpensive. In the next 3.5 years, we can afford to lock down about a dozen players, including our currently extended offensive tackles, with long term, market value contracts that reside within the franchise tag range.

Excluding offensive tackles, the remaining ten core players must come from the following pool:
JSN, Witherspoon, Murphy III, Hall, Barner, Dickson, Myers, Darnold, Arroyo, Mafe, Zabel, Emanworri, Mills, Walker, Shaheed, Bryant, Milroe, and Jobe.

Go ahead. Fit ten from that list into the budget plan. Does Walker make the cut? For me, just barely, and that can easily change relative to how much I believe that Mills, Milroe, and Arroyo will progress next season.

 

[Seahawker]

Sad, but success can be a death knell for a RB.
Let KWlll test the FA waters.
Keep your eye on Nicholas Singleton- Penn State at the combine. John should take him at #64 or trade into the 3rd and hope he's still there. A bulldozer RG, plus Singleton and adding Arroyo & Horton and the rest would make this offense a nightmare for DC's.

 

[Silver Hawk]

Given the state of the RB room, which is to say there really isn’t one right now, I can’t imagine that the Seahawks let Walker leave. Sign him. Put the transition tag on him. Whatever it takes.

 

[HOF Hater]

If McIntosh played this season it would have been a 3 headed monster at RB, he's that good

 

[flv2]

Jacardia Wright is the primary reason why I could stomach Walker's departure with little anxiety. This young man has a very high ceiling and is embarrassingly inexpensive. In the next 3.5 years, we can afford to lock down about a dozen players, including our currently extended offensive tackles, with long term, market value contracts that reside within the franchise tag range.

Excluding offensive tackles, the remaining ten core players must come from the following pool:
JSN, Witherspoon, Murphy III, Hall, Barner, Dickson, Myers, Darnold, Arroyo, Mafe, Zabel, Emanworri, Mills, Walker, Shaheed, Bryant, Milroe, and Jobe.

Go ahead. Fit ten from that list into the budget plan. Does Walker make the cut? For me, just barely, and that can easily change relative to how much I believe that Mills, Milroe, and Arroyo will progress next season.

In 2025 Wright was 6th choice at RB, and that's if he was ahead of Velus Jones Jr. and Cam Akers. Don't get too attached to undrafted try-outs.

 

[warden]

holy crap!

I completely forgot about him.

Does he also get a ring?

Yes he also gets a ring

 

[Hollandhawk]

Walker is 25 and finally looks like the (healthy) running back he was in college. You can tell he is special. To let him walk with Charbs out with an ACL is insanity to me. I could see letting him walk if this team sucked and needed a rebuild, but this team is primed for another run.

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

Whoever the OC will be will play a significant role with whatever Seattle does with its RBs.

Walker and his camp knows this as well.

The entire RB room will have some questions.

I don’t think Walker will sign quickly until we find out who the OC is.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Take a look at how many carries he has overall. Fresh legs, he has a TON left in the tank. I know some people don't like K9, but it would be a mistake to let him go.

 

[CPHawk]

Kenny McIntosh. He could play a significant role next year. Coming off an ACl injury is a big if. The talent is absolutely there.

Love the optimism. But he hasn’t managed to stay healthy at all so far in 3 years

 

[Mick063]

In 2025 Wright was 6th choice at RB, and that's if he was ahead of Velus Jones Jr. and Cam Akers. Don't get too attached to undrafted try-outs.

I am unapologetically attached to Wright. I think he is Ahman Green. In other words, an undervalued player that can slip through the cracks, and into super stardom for someone else. If he wasn't on Seattle's roster he would most certainly be on another club's roster and that certainly exceeds the threshold for a "try-out". He isn't destined to bag groceries anytime soon. For being the supposed sixth choice, Seattle sure is mitigating Wright's exposure to other clubs. They know what they have and immediately signed him to a futures contract after the Super Bowl. That exceeds the measure of an "undrafted try-out" as he isn't merely a camp body that disappears when the final 70 is revealed.

 

[flv2]

I am unapologetically attached to Wright. I think he is Ahman Green. In other words, an undervalued player that can slip through the cracks, and into super stardom for someone else. If he wasn't on Seattle's roster he would most certainly be on another club's roster and that certainly exceeds the threshold for a "try-out". He isn't destined to bag groceries anytime soon. For being the supposed sixth choice, Seattle sure is mitigating Wright's exposure to other clubs. They know what they have and immediately signed him to a futures contract after the Super Bowl. That exceeds the measure of an "undrafted try-out" as he isn't merely a camp body that disappears when the final 70 is revealed.

In 2025 he wasn't NFL ready. In preseason he was a poor blocker and below average receiver - which is natural for a rookie RB from a small program. He showed better than expected speed without any specific rushing traits, (making opponents miss, change of direction, breaking tackles, nose for a hole, etc). He was released at the 53-man roster cut down point last year and no team claimed him. He's been on the PS all year and no team signed him. If he wasn't with the Seahawks he'd be out of the NFL.

Athletically he's no Ahman Green. Obviously he could improve his skills in 2026 but I don't see him getting ahead of McIntosh, Holani, or Ouzts, (and those guys are just by-committee depth RBs). Good luck to him and all other prospects.

 

[chrispy]

K9 had 150 yards in the SB and won it for the Seahawks...obviously not single-handedly, but MVP performance. No one on this forum doesn't like him.

That said, he was so frustrating in past seasons and early this season dancing around in the backfield. It improved immensely as the season progressed. So...is that K9 or is that OLine? Sure, a combination of improvement by both, but if a significant amount of K9s success is attributable to better OLine run-blocking, that's transferable to another good RB. If it's really all, or mostly attributable to K9, he's invaluable and cannot be allowed to leave in FAcy.

My opinion is that the OL is better than I can ever remember. That's including the Walt/Hutch left side. Maybe I'm old and demented, but it's at least better than any line since Walt retired. We'll know what JS and MMac think soon enough. I think the cost/benefit leads to K9 going elsewhere and tearing it up, and good for him. JS will have 3 really good RBs on the roster going into the season. Sundell and Zabel will be better next year. Tackles are really good as long as they're healthy. Remaining G is improving and will be addressed more this off season. Exciting time for Seahawks run game regardless of K9....

 

[Silver Hawk]

Walker is 25 and finally looks like the (healthy) running back he was in college. You can tell he is special. To let him walk with Charbs out with an ACL is insanity to me. I could see letting him walk if this team sucked and needed a rebuild, but this team is primed for another run.

Exactly. It would be GM malpractice to let him leave, IMO. Nothing wrong with paying him fair market value. You don’t just toss away the SB MVP.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Jacardia Wright is the primary reason why I could stomach Walker's departure with little anxiety. This young man has a very high ceiling and is embarrassingly inexpensive. In the next 3.5 years, we can afford to lock down about a dozen players, including our currently extended offensive tackles, with long term, market value contracts that reside within the franchise tag range.

Excluding offensive tackles, the remaining ten core players must come from the following pool:
JSN, Witherspoon, Murphy III, Hall, Barner, Dickson, Myers, Darnold, Arroyo, Mafe, Zabel, Emanworri, Mills, Walker, Shaheed, Bryant, Milroe, and Jobe.

Go ahead. Fit ten from that list into the budget plan. Does Walker make the cut? For me, just barely, and that can easily change relative to how much I believe that Mills, Milroe, and Arroyo will progress next season.

Wow. From that list I start with who I would have to put near the bottom. Mafe, wow, Milroe, you can only take 10? Why only 10? Wow walker? That’s crazy how you can lose good players…

 

[Seahawker]

Exactly. It would be GM malpractice to let him leave, IMO. Nothing wrong with paying him fair market value. You don’t just toss away the SB MVP.

That's your opinion and I doubt the majority shares it. Malcolm Smith.

 

[Hollandhawk]

That's your opinion and I doubt the majority shares it. Malcolm Smith.

LOL, come on, he was a bit of an outlier. Walker is a stud.