{"id":691192,"date":"2026-01-20T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:20","slug":"seahawks-running-back-zach-charbonnet-out-for-season-with-significant-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691192\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet out for season with \u2018significant knee injury\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Coach Macdonald confirmed on his weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Sports 710 radio<\/a> appearance that Charbonnet\u2019s knee injury, which he suffered in the second quarter of Seattle\u2019s 41-6 Divisional Round win over the San Francisco 49ers, is serious enough to need season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Charbonnet was in the middle of the best season of his career, rushing for 730 yards and the aforementioned 12 touchdowns, the most by any Seahawks running back since Marshawn Lynch in 2014. Alongside Kenneth Walker III, Seattle\u2019s rushing attack has improved significantly over the past several weeks, with Charbonnet notably rushing for the Seahawks\u2019 only touchdown in the Week 18 NFC West title game against the 49ers, having previously rushed for over 100 yards and two scores in Week 17 at the Carolina Panthers. Of course, the story of Seattle\u2019s top seed can\u2019t be told without Charbonnet\u2019s bizarre game-tying two-point conversion against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seahawks will now turn to Walker as the undisputed number one option at running back. Walker rushed for 116 yards and three touchdowns in a magnificent showing versus San Francisco, but after a season\u2019s worth of splitting carries with Charbonnet, he\u2019s going to be getting the bulk of the carries starting with this Sunday\u2019s NFC Championship Game against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Seattle does have other backup options at running back on the practice squad, including Velus Jones Jr and former Rams starter Cam Akers. George Holani is still on injured reserve and there hasn\u2019t been much of an indication that he\u2019s nearing a return, but we\u2019ll see on that front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What a bummer for Charbonnet and for this Seahawks offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coach Macdonald confirmed on his weekly Seattle Sports 710 radio appearance that Charbonnet\u2019s knee injury, which he suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,52088,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-691192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-injuries","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115927579821995369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}