The 2023 draft and the team’s pressing needs are going to answer that very question.
Get one thing absolutely right: PCJS should never have picked Penny 27th overall. That doesn’t change the fact he was absolutely dominant when available. A true special talent, and those are words I use sparingly. Had Penny remained healthy, he might have become that most elusive of unicorns: a first-round running back who deserved the selection.
But the risk you took when drafting an injury-prone position with a typically short career came back to bite the Seahawks. That’s why they call it “risk.” Penny wasn’t worth the risk at the time, bad results followed bad process, and in due time he wasn’t worth the first-round investment, because they almost never are. You’ve heard the phrase before put I’ve put a new twist on it.
More research than is convenient to wield here has been poured into demonstrating the reduced importance of running backs. We can rehash all of it some other time, but consider two data points that forcefully make the case:In 2008, 13 running backs carried the ball 300 or more times. Then, between 2016 and 2022, only 12 total players cleared the same threshold. That’s right. More RBs got 300 carries in 2008 alone than in the past seven NFL seasons combined.
The game has changed, compensation has changed, rushing approaches have changed, and workloads have changed. Individual running backs matter less than a generation ago, not to bloggers in their mothers’ basements, but to NFL general managers and coaches. The second real shame is that with their track record, Carroll and Schneider should have known better.Thomas Rawls — undrafted.Combined, those three studs produced an impressive resume: 2552-11,219-90-4.4, which looks really cool once you turn it into an average season and lay it out against Shaun Alexander’s average numbers.
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