The Seattle Seahawks finally succeed in their run-game efforts last season after struggling to find a rhythm following Marshawn Lynch’s departure to the Oakland Raiders.
Seattle led the league in rushing and second-year back Chris Carson emerged as a true starter, backed up by Mike Davis (now with Chicago) and Rashaad Penny, who both proved to be reliable off the bench.
But can you ever have too much of a good thing? Seahawks left tackle Duane Brown thinks so. Brown appeared on NFL’s “Up to the Minute” on Friday and said just that.
“When you have a quarterback as talented as Russell Wilson is, you have to have balance,” Brown explained.
“At times, I think we ran the ball maybe a little bit too much, and that’s kind of hard to say as a lineman,” Brown said. “But it worked for us, it worked for us for a long time. The guys up front, they leaned on us, they leaned on Chris Carson [and the] stable of backs we had.”
The Seahawks were one of just five teams in the NFL who passed under 500 times last season and the only club to have run the ball more often than throw.
“I think Russ, we got to use him as much as possible next year,” Brown continued. “He obviously had his best statistical year even with us running the ball as much as we did, but the balance is there, and I’m looking forward to it.”
