Running back Zach Charbonnet led the way with 83 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries, bringing his touchdowns on the season to six. Kenneth Walker III had 14 carries for 67 yards and George Holani added 31 yards and a touchdown on seven touches, scoring his first rushing touchdown of the season.

“George is doing a great job in practice,” head coach Mike Macdonald said. “He keeps showing that he’s a dependable guy and he’s effective when he gets the ball and he runs that run really well. We been looking for opportunities to give him the ball. It’s hard because our top two guys are so good. Just shows if you just keep knocking on the door and keep kicking butt and keep being productive, we’re going to figure out a way to let you do your thing in a game.”

Macdonald added, “It’s simple. It’s not like we’re trying to reward guys. We are trying to win. Guys that show that they can go play great football, we’re going to give them opportunities to go do that. I think our actions back that up. I don’t know. I would like to play on a team like that. If I was a player and I felt like, why, do you want me to come out and work so hard every day, do all the things you’re asking me to do? We want to develop you as a player and we’re going need you at some point. So why would you not operate like that? I don’t know. Some people don’t do that. I don’t get it.”

And while both Charbonnet and Walker have been effective, Holani came into Sunday’s matchup knowing he would potentially get at least one opportunity, he just didn’t know when that would be.

“I didn’t expect it so early,” Holani said. “Because it was only 14-0, so coach called me. He had to call me like two to three times. I was like, ‘No way he just called me.’ I was ready for whenever my number was called because coach KP [Kenny Polamalu] did say they were trying to get me one touch. I got my one touch, the first play and made the best of it.”

Holani said it was, “Pretty awesome just to get the run game going finally. We’ve been trying to work on the run game for a couple games so it was pretty cool to see Zach [Charbonnet] and [Kenneth Walker III] go out there and do their thing. And I finally get some touches at the end of the game as well.”

On Sunday, Seattle ran the ball on 78 percent of their plays, the third-highest rate in a game since 2016, per Next Gen Stats.

“It was good,” rookie Grey Zabel said. “Anytime we can run the ball and continue to run the clock like that is important. You’ve got to give credit to our running backs. The way they ran it was pretty impressive. We’ve just got to keep building on that.”

Over the course of the game, there were 46 carries, which included six explosive runs (gaining 10 or more yards) and 13 combined missed tackles according to NGS.

Macdonald said, “This is the second game in a row now against Arizona that our offensive staff has done a great job of getting to runs that — through adjustments, part of our game plan, over the course of the game that made our run game finish strong. So both games. They deserve a lot of credit, and you felt their offensive line. Felt like we were physical. Felt like we were going to the right people. We took the line. Thought our running backs played really well. Finished runs the right way.”

The run game seeing success is also credit to the offensive line.

“You know, we were successful in the run game,” Walker said. “In the second half we turned it up and our O-line did a great job. You know, we were just executing much better than we were before the second half. We came out in the second half and started executing much better.”

Zabel said, “I think if we continue to improve up front, it’s just going to get better and better.”

Abraham Lucas said, “We’re lucky to have a backfield like this.”