Seahawks 25 Best Players; #24 C.J. Prosise
By Dan Viens
The Seattle Seahawks roster is generally regarded as one of the best in the NFL top to bottom, but what about the talent level within the roster? Our co-editor Dan Viens takes a shot at ranking the team’s Top 25 players in order.
(PART 2 OF 25 IN A SERIES)
NFL Network does their Top 100 NFL players list every year, and this off season we’ve seen our share of analysts taking a crack at ranking the best rosters in the league. As we enter into the dog days of the off season, with the start of training camp still over a month away, I wanted to see what it would look like if I tried to rank the best 25 players the Seahawks have.
It was harder than I thought.
The top 10 was pretty easy. I would suspect most would end up with the same 10-12 names in some order or another. After that it gets dicey.
Among the challenges, how do you figure in the rookies and players who have never played a down in Seattle?
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My criteria was wide-ranging. Sometimes I went with pure talent, and other times I gave more weight to the players importance to the team. And in certain cases the players role…….played a role in my ranking. When in doubt, however, I would just ask myself “who’s the better player?”
So here we go……
The 24th Best Player On The Seahawks Roster Is….
#24: C.J. Prosise, RB
Our first rookie entry hits the list in the 24th spot. Obviously in the case of a rookie we have to lean on projection, but Prosise has an intriguing, and downright exciting, set of skills.
First off, he’s a bit of a physical freak at the running back position. He’s 6’1″ and up to 228 pounds, and he carries it naturally. He’s a converted WR who only played RB full time his final year at Notre Dame, so he has rare ability as a pass-catcher.
To that end, the Seahawks drafted Prosise with the idea of making him a Swiss Army Knife type, capable of giving the team a multi-dimensional weapon on 3rd downs. As a ball-carrier, he’s a tough runner with breakaway speed, but we will also see him split out wide and run routes as a receiver.
Pete Carroll talked about Prosise yesterday after the team’s workout, and while he’s been sidelined by a hip flexor this week, the team has seen enough of him to know what he can do moving forward.
“We have a lot of thoughts on how we are going to do this so he is going to be up against a short timeframe. He is a very natural football player, he is a tremendous athlete, he catches the ball well, he runs good routes, he does a lot of really cool things and we know he is an explosive runner,” Carroll said.
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Some scouting reports have pegged Prosise as a guy who could develop into a full-time, 3 down back in the NFL. For now, however, the Hawks intend to use his skills to throw unique looks at the opposition. That upside, as much as anything else, is what earned him such a high ranking on this list.