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The major concern for many about the Seattle Seahawks heading into the 2026 NFL season is the running back position. Nonetheless, with the NFL Draft on the horizon in April, there’s an opportunity for the reigning Super Bowl champions to address this weakness.
Seattle allowed Kenneth Walker III, the Super Bowl LX MVP, to leave via free agency, and Zach Charbonnet tore his ACL in the team’s championship run, so he will miss a good portion of the campaign.
Despite this challenging position, Seahawks general manager John Schneider has done well drafting on Day 2 of the NFL Draft, hitting on Walker and Charbonnet. As a result, his fanbase hopes Schneider has that running back touch again.
Nonetheless, FanSided’s Rucker Haringey is warning the Seahawks to steer clear of one running back: Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish standout Jadarian Price.
“The Seahawks cannot afford to let their desperation at running back force them into making Price their first round pick,”Haringey wrote in his article published on March 22. “He could be a quality choice for Seattle in Round 3, but taking him at No. 32 is far too rich. He simply doesn’t possess the special qualities required to reach that sort of rare air as a prospect.
“Credit the Seahawks for signing Emmanuel Wilson to a cheap deal in free agency to make sure they aren’t pressured to go running back in Round 1. He and Zach Charbonnet could perform as a quality duo once Charbonnet gets healthy. No matter what, adding Price to the mix in the first round is not worth the price required for the defending Super Bowl champs.”
Analyst Worrys Over Seattle Running Back Situation
Recently, The Athletic’s Robert Mays expressed concern about the team’s running back situation, which could improve slightly if they draft one in April.
“Who’s going to play running back for the Seahawks in Week 1?”Mays said in a March 19 video from “The Athletic Football Show.” “Right now, it pretty much seems like their Week 1 plan, if they don’t bring in anybody else, is going to be some combination of Emanuel Wilson and George Holani.
“They can probably live with that for a short period of time, but we saw that the best version of the Seahawks offense, as we got deeper into the season, required some real play at running back and some real dynamic play at running back.
“So the complexion of the offense just dramatically changes for as long as Zach Charbonnet isn’t in there and I would argue into when Zach Charbonnet is in there, considering how important Kenneth Walker was to what this team felt like by the end of the year.”
Seahawks Get Two Potential RB Draft Targets
The draft is where Seattle can bolster the running back position, and ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes floated two names that should be on the team’s radar, neither of which includes Price, and likely players the Seahawks can get on Day 2.
“Just throw out running back because [the Seahawks] really need one,“ Kimes said on theMarch 18 edition of “The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny.“ “Kenneth Walker III’s gone. Zach Charbonnet’s hurt. They brought in Emanuel Wilson, who’s just depth. [Seahawks general manager] John Schneider will probably get to do his favorite thing in the entire world, which is draft a running back in the second round.
“I wouldn’t mind, like, Jonah Coleman from Washington, although he apparently is just not athletic testing, which is weird. But he’s a good back… There are some interesting mid-round backs. We talked about this. Mike Washington Jr., who’s a really, really fast Arkansas back, would be an interesting one for them as well. But it is a glaring area of need.”