Seattle Seahawks must make Kenneth Walker III a ‘high priority’ | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

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1. Love K-9 but he's injury prone.

   The RB by committee thing was working.

   I'm going to bet that the OC is going to have a lot to say about all of it.

2. The Kenny McIntosh Story Oh what could have been.

3. They don't have to pay Shaheed. They have Horton. They got Shaheed to replace Horton when he got hurt. They probably WILL pay Shaheed, and restructure Kupp to make that happen (if he doesn't just retire or get cut), but they don't have to.

   They also don't have to pay Walker. They probably weren't going to until Charbonnet got hurt, and they may do it now given that Charbonnet won't be back for a while, but they don't have to. Walker isn't even a great stylistic fit for this offense (assuming it stays more or less the same after Kubiak's departure, which it probably will). He's just a good enough running back, especially in space, that he can produce regardless of what offence he's in. But he does have an injury history and it wouldn't be shocking if they changed course and got someone else instead if K9 wants to be paid top of market (which would be understandable).

   The Seahawks have an enormous amount of cap space and flexibility to do whatever they want in terms of bringing guys back or tinkering with the lineup.

4. Revolving wheel?!?!?!

5. He’s not that good. Been injured every other year. Hence why he splits with Charbonet

6. I would be very careful not to over pay a chronically injured RB that’s splits a lot of time.

7. Franchise tag him while we have the cap space. Let him walk after next season.

8. They specifically kept K9s carries low through the year cause he had never had a full season. He made it the superbowl in all probably because of this. Charbs injury literally shows you teams need 2 guys, look at any team and they have 2, it’s just a matter of the split in carries and objectively hawks did it right with their players.

9. FRANCHISE K9

10. So, re-signing the reigning SB MVP should be a priority? Brilliant analysis guys.

11. K9 is not a 25 carry back real Seahawks fans who watch knows when they gave it to him he would get injured Zach really help get rid of those injuries by taking half the load it will be a huge mistake to pay him like a beast mode are king Henry u know u can put the load on them but if u do that with k9 he will be hurt half way through the season I know this because it has happened when he was younger.

12. Seahawks have been burned in past seasons relying on just one guy and that guy gets injured every time, leaving them to finish the season with low-quality backups. They're doing it right now with splitting backs.