The major worry for many about the Seattle Seahawks heading into the 2026 NFL season is the running back position.
Kenneth Walker III left via free agency, and Zach Charbonnet tore his ACL in the team’s championship run, so he will miss a good portion of the 2026 NFL season. With the 2026 NFL Draft approaching on April 23, the question is: in what round and which player will the Seahawks select?
Seattle hold the No. 32 pick and NFL analyst Daniel Jeremiah believes that the Seahawks should go after a running back and even has a name: Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish star Jadarian Price.
“If you don’t get on the Jahdarian Price train, I’m not feeling great about you having a running back you think could start next year,” Jeremiah said in an April 13 video from “The Joel Klatt Show.” “I think this is a two-starting-running-back draft.
“Now, we always will get some guys who will surprise us and be solid players, but to me, it is not a weakness in this draft. I’m looking at him. I will put the ceiling, I’ll go Seattle pick 32. And then the floor, I’ll go Seattle 32. How do they not take him? They don’t have a starting running back.”
Last season at Notre Dame, Price earned a 78.6 overall PFF grade. Moreover, his PFF rushing grade of 79.9 ranked 157th among 406 qualified running backs. He carried the ball 113 times for 674 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. Price averaged 6.0 yards per attempt on the ground.
Price forced 32 missed tackles as a runner and averaged 3.9 yards after contact per attempt. As a receiver, he caught 6 passes on 7 targets for 87 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns.
Should the Seahawks Avoid Jadarian Price in Round 1?
Nonetheless, FanSided’s Rucker Haringey recently issued a warning to the Seahawks to steer clear of Price at the end of Round 1
“The Seahawks cannot afford to let their desperation at running back force them into making Price their first round pick,” Haringey wrote in his article published on March 22. “He could be a quality choice for Seattle in Round 3, but taking him at No. 32 is far too rich. He simply doesn’t possess the special qualities required to reach that sort of rare air as a prospect.
“Credit the Seahawks for signing Emmanuel Wilson to a cheap deal in free agency to make sure they aren’t pressured to go running back in Round 1. He and Zach Charbonnet could perform as a quality duo once Charbonnet gets healthy. No matter what, adding Price to the mix in the first round is not worth the price required for the defending Super Bowl champs.”
Seattle RB Position Gives Cause for Concern
Recently, The Athletic’s Robert Mays expressed concern about the team’s running back situation, which could improve slightly if they draft one in April.
“Who’s going to play running back for the Seahawks in Week 1?” Mays said in a March 19 video from “The Athletic Football Show.” “Right now, it pretty much seems like their Week 1 plan, if they don’t bring in anybody else, is going to be some combination of Emanuel Wilson and George Holani.
“They can probably live with that for a short period of time, but we saw that the best version of the Seahawks offense, as we got deeper into the season, required some real play at running back and some real dynamic play at running back.
“So the complexion of the offense just dramatically changes for as long as Zach Charbonnet isn’t in there and I would argue into when Zach Charbonnet is in there, considering how important Kenneth Walker was to what this team felt like by the end of the year.”
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