Scrub the idea from your mind if you had such thoughts.
This is not a recent problem that’s surfaced out of nowhere; Gordon is a career fumbler without Adrian Peterson’s productivity. Since entering the NFL in 2015 he’s fumbled an astounding 26 times, which is more than any other running back in the league. He had just two fumbles from 2017-2018 but has racked up 16 over the past four seasons.
Gordon has spent over half of his career failing to crack four yards per attempt and this year his longest run in 2022 is 17 yards. He’s going to be 30 years old in a few months and given his inability to hang onto the ball he is not to be trusted even in small sample sizes. Pete Carroll gave Chris Carson a lot of leeway when he had a brutal stretch of fumbles in 2019 but that proved to be the outlier on his career. Alex Collins. Carroll has a low tolerance for turnovers and even lower when said player is not performing to a high standard. Whatever ails Gordon will not be fixed in a half-season and he has way more potential to hurt the team he’s on than help.
Beyond Kenneth Walker III, Seattle already has DeeJay Dallas and Travis Homer on the roster, both of whom are more than capable of getting carries in this offense. If there are any injuries of note they have two running backs on the practice squad, and there are probably other street free agents who can go a game without being a massive turnover risk. Besides, Seattle fumbles enough as is — tied for 2nd most lost fumbles with 8 — and it doesn’t need to add a chronic fumbler.
If the Seahawks do get another running back on the cheap for depth purposes, then so be it. There is no chance Gordon ends up on this roster nor should he.
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