Chris Carson: The Seahawks are agreeing a two – year deal to keep going back in Seattle | NFL News

Free agent running back Chris Carson, 26, agrees to return to Seattle Seahawks; RB was drafted by the team in 2017; Entering his fifth year, Carson has raised over 4,000 scrimmage yards and 28 touchdowns for the Seahawks

Free agent runs back Chris Carson has agreed a two-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks that could be worth up to $ 14.6m, according to multiple media reports.

The Seahawks added a third year of vacancy to the contract to help manage the pay gap, ESPN and NFL.com reported.

Having been selected by the 249th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, just four points from being ‘Mr. Irrelevant’, Carson has emerged as a key player in the Seahawks ’backfield since early in the 2018 season.

In his rookie campaign in 2017, competing against Thomas Rawls and Eddie Lacy, Carson immediately earned an important spot, starting three games and scoring 267 yards from scrimmage.

However, a broken ankle in Week Four suffered him to an injured reserve for the rest of the year.

From the start of the 2018 season to the end of 2020, Carson has been Seattle’s starting lineup, preventing injury. He surpassed 1,000 rushing yards in 2018 and 2019, and this season finished with nine touchdowns (five runs, four wins) in 12 games.

In fact, he had nine TDs in each of the last three seasons for a total of 27 in that field.

Carson was expected to sign elsewhere during the 2018 first-round pick Rashaad Penny took over starting duties, but the veteran has held the 25-year-old Penny through his three seasons, and Penny has lost a lot of time through injury so far career. He was involved in just three games in 2020.

Head coach Pete Carroll said in January about his offense heading into 2021: “We need to run the ball better. Not run the ball better, run it bigger.”

Carson, 26, will be a big part of that as the team looks to kick back to their top five attacks in 2018 and 2019 before dropping to 12th last year.