How snap counts make Seahawks freshest remaining team in the NFC
"The Seattle Seahawks are proving that a young team CAN win"
For the past 15 years, there’s been this theory about running backs that “you have to start abusing their bodies as soon as you draft them and wear them down into a worthless little pill by the time they hit free agency because heck you just can’t trust them to live past 25 anyway”.
What if that’s wrong?
What if running backs aren’t cell phones, gadgets that are exciting in the first week but seem stale and replaceable within a few years, but are actually more like real estate? A piece of land that offers long-term value if you start small and build slowly and nurture that soil into becoming Derrick Henry?
Not only are the Seahawks in contention for the top seed in the NFC, they’ve also managed to spread the snaps around in such a way that Seattle has the freshest legs in the conference, including Kenneth Walker, who for the first time in his career is inching towards a playoff run as if a wild card game will be more like “Week 10” of a normal season for him based on playing time.
In today’s Seaside Bo-nus, I’ll compare snap counts of key players in the NFC and share some data that shows how the Seahawks are not only good, not only young, and not only setup great for the next 3 years, but they’re in the rare position of being all three of those things at the same time. Sign up for Regular Joes or Super Joes to continue reading and get more additional Seahawks content for the rest of the season!
Now look at where Walker and Zach Charbonnet rank on this list of snaps among NFC running backs, including a top contender with a running back who has more snaps than both of them combined: