Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had nothing new to report on running back Marshawn Lynch on Thursday.
Lynch left last Sunday’s game against Chicago after the first half because of a hamstring injury, and he underwent an MRI on Monday. However, Carroll said nothing has been determined with regards to whether Lynch will play Monday night against Detroit.
“It’s going to take us all week to figure it out and see how he is,” Carroll said.
“We’ll just wait and see,” Carroll added. “We don’t need to make any big declarations right now. We’ll just wait and gather information and see how he does. I know he wants to play and is determined to try and do that. So we’ll just see how it goes, it may go all the way to game time.”
So it sounds like we’ll be playing the waiting game with Lynch again this week. Lynch was a game-time decision last week against Chicago because of a calf injury, and although Lynch was activated he didn’t emerge from the locker room until nearly eight minutes elapsed from the clock as he had difficulty getting loose before the game.
With Lynch missing the second half of last week’s game, undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls stepped up with a 16-carry, 104-yard performance, giving the Seahawks hope they can cope without Lynch. But are the Seahawks truly equipped for life without Lynch?
“If he can’t play we’ll find out,” Carroll said. “I like the way we ran the ball last week and were able to get after it. We really ran the ball pretty well in the first half, we just didn’t’ run it very much. But the numbers were up, the average was up in good order. We’ll see. How do you replace him? He’s a ridiculously good football player and has been great player for us and a great factor for us forever it seems. We’ll just do the best we can. Guys have to step up. If that’s the case and we need that to happen, then Thomas and Freddie (Jackson) are going to jump up and do some stuff for us.”
Carroll wan non-committal when asked how the duties would be divided between Rawls and Jackson should Lynch be unavailable. Last Sunday Rawls had 16 carries to just two for the veteran Jackson. But Jackson was used more on third down and had two catches to none for Rawls.
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