Here’s a look at the 2017 rushing leaders for the Seattle Seahawks:
| No. | Player | Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds |
TD | Lng | Y/A | Y/G | A/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Russell Wilson | 29 | QB | 12 | 12 | 71 | 432 | 3 | 29 | 6.1 | 36.0 | 5.9 |
| 32 | Chris Carson | 23 | rb | 4 | 3 | 49 | 208 | 0 | 30 | 4.2 | 52.0 | 12.3 |
| 27 | Eddie Lacy | 26 | rb | 9 | 3 | 69 | 179 | 0 | 19 | 2.6 | 19.9 | 7.7 |
| 21 | J.D. McKissic | 24 | rb | 9 | 1 | 33 | 143 | 1 | 30 | 4.3 | 15.9 | 3.7 |
| 34 | Thomas Rawls | 24 | rb | 9 | 3 | 50 | 129 | 0 | 23 | 2.6 | 14.3 | 5.6 |
| 39 | Mike Davis | 25 | rb | 2 | 2 | 22 | 82 | 0 | 22 | 3.7 | 41.0 | 11.0 |
| 16 | Tyler Lockett | 25 | WR | 12 | 7 | 8 | 46 | 0 | 22 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 0.7 |
| 22 | C.J. Prosise | 23 | rb | 5 | 0 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 2.1 | 4.6 | 2.2 |
| Team Total | 26.3 | 12 | 316 | 1233 | 4 | 30 | 3.9 | 102.8 | 26.3 |
You might have noticed that quarterback Russell Wilson actually leads the team in rushing yards. Which is… pretty unusual. Excluding situations when players who didn’t enter the NFL as a running back but played that position (like Ty Montgomery or Denard Robinson), only twice in the last 20 years has a non-RB led his team in rushing yards. Do you know who and when?
Before them, the last player was Randall Cunningham – who did it for the 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990 Eagles. The only other time since the merger that a non-RB has led his team in rushing yards was Bears quarterback Bobby Douglass in 1972.
And before Douglass, you have to go back to 1960, when Lenny Moore led the Colts in rushing yards the year after moving to wide receiver (he still actually led the team in carries, too, but Alan Ameche was the fullback and Alex Hawkins was the running back; Moore finished with 936 receiving yards and 374 rushing yards). Also that year, Jets (well, Titans) quarterback Al Dorow led the expansion franchise in rushing yards.
Positional designations get a little tricky pre-1960, but a few other quarterbacks pulled off the feat in the ’50s. Tobin Rote led the Lions in rushing in 1958, and the Packers in rushing in 1951, 1952, and 1956. Charley Trippi led the Cardinals in rushing in 1951 and 1952, although the 1952 Cardinals had the greatest four-way race for a franchise rushing title you’ll ever see.
This is a long way of saying it’s going to be pretty noteworthy if Wilson leads the Seahawks in rushing, which seems very likely to happen.