If the common perception the first four weeks of the season was that the Seahawks had something of a possibly untenable logjam at running back, the team viewed it as just doing their job in attempting to account for the realities of the sport that all too unfortunately and inevitably surface.
The downside of football stared the Seahawks right in the face in the fourth quarter Sunday night as rookie Chris Carson was carted off the field of a 46-18 win over the Colts with injuries to his left ankle and his leg.
Monday, the team reported that Carson — the team’s leading rusher with 208 yards on 30 carries — will have surgery on Tuesday to repair a high ankle sprain and that he also has a broken bone in his leg that is expected to heal on its own.