RENTON, Wash. -- John Schneider was right.
When the Seattle Seahawks' general manager made his first offseason comments to reporters in late March, he rejected the widely held notion that his team was in rebuild mode despite a wave of big-name departures.
Russell Wilson is enjoying his most efficient season and benefiting from a resurgent running game.The Seahawks had released Richard Sherman and traded Michael Bennett before letting Jimmy Graham, Paul Richardson and Sheldon Richardson sign elsewhere. And with no one expecting Kam Chancellor or Cliff Avril to come back from their career-threatening neck injuries, the core of the roster that had propelled the greatest era in the franchise's…