When Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny went down and out for the season late in 2019, the Seahawks offense was likely to be limited so much advancing far in the postseason was not reasonable. And in fact, Seattle struggled to run the ball in either of its playoffs games and Russell Wilson could not save the team from losing to the Packers.
Even bringing in Marshawn Lynch to try to resuscitate the suddenly-harmless Seattle running game didn’t help. It was obvious that nearly every time Lynch entered the game he was going to get the ball on running downs.