Those marks ranked eighth, first and second, respectively, among running backs who carried the ball at least 70 times.

He averaged 5.1 yards per carry, 2.8 yards after contact and, per Pro Football Focus, he forced one missed tackle for every 0.27 carries. He posted at least one carry of 25 yards during four of those games. Last season, he racked up 50-plus rushing yards in each of his five games. This would all be a huge problem if Lacy wasn't playing well. And, despite reports that he was in shape during the 2016 offseason, he was still overweight during the regular season. It was a problem during a solid 2015 campaign. Lacy has been overweight often throughout his career. Listed at 234, Lacy's weight loss was often cited as the reason for his high-end effectiveness before he got injured.īut interestingly, reports later came out that said Lacy 'slowly put back on until by the start of the season he looked like he was pretty much back where he'd ended 2015.' The same report said 'coach Mike McCarthy fined Lacy for not making weight over the last couple of seasons.' Eddie Lacy carried 17 times for 103 yards against the Lions. Lacy went on to play three more games, two of which were highly productive (28 carries, 184 yards), before struggling through the ankle injury in his final showing of the year. In fact, following a strong Week 2 performance against Minnesota last season, both head coach Mike McCarthy and running backs coach Ben Sirmans said they wanted to get him the ball more often. Nonetheless, the efficiency here was solid.ĭuring last offseason, Lacy worked directly with P90X founder Tony Horton and got his weight under control. As noted earlier, he also dealt with a few injuries during the season. Lacy was criticized for being too heavy during the 2015 season when he appeared in 15 games, posted 187 carries for 758 yards (4.1 YPC), and racked up 20 receptions for 188 yards (9.4 YPR). There's no doubt Lacy has struggled with his weight, but has it negatively affected his play? This guy is tough.Īnd that leads me to the 'overweight' narrative. Oh, and he racked up 18 touches on that injured ankle against Dallas prior to sitting out the rest of the 2016 season. Entering his rookie season, teams were reportedly worried about an injury history that included a toe and hamstring ailments.īut again: He missed just two games in his pro career prior to a brutal ankle injury last season that required wires, screws and a plate. And as a rookie, he suffered a hamstring injury in the preseason and tweaked his ankle late in the year, but missed only Week 3 (concussion). He dealt with eye, hip, head and knee injuries in 2014, but didn't miss a game. He was limited with ankle and rib injuries, but missed only Week 10 (groin) in 2015. What's important to keep in mind here is that Lacy missed a grand total of two regular-season games during his first three NFL seasons. Granted, he has been beat up often, but so have most - if not all - backs who have near the 788 carries he has accrued in four seasons. It’s thought Green Bay let Lacy test the market in part due to concerns over his weight, which the Packers figured might be only tougher to control as Lacy gets older - he turns 27 in June.Ī Tweet from Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Tuesday stated that Lacy weighed in at 267 during one of the three visits he took over the past few days - Seattle, Minnesota and Green Bay.This is something that latched on to Lacy during the draft process, disappeared for a while, and is now back. “I like that we’re bringing in a big, tough guy that’s going to send a message the way he plays the game.” “He’s a big back in classic fashion,” Carroll said in an interview on ESPN 710 Seattle. We’ll be on it on a regular basis and we’ll keep him in great shape.’’Ĭarroll said Lacy’s size was much of his attraction, potentially able to give the Seahawks a physical and power dimension they lacked last season. “In his 40s (the 240s) he’s really dangerous,” Carroll said. That jibes with what coach Pete Carroll said in a pair of radio interviews on Tuesday after Lacy’s signing was made official, when he said the goal wasn’t for Lacy to be at the 234 at which he has been listed, but in the 240s. NFL draft winners and losers from 1st round: Pac-12 stands tall.National media grades Seahawks' pick of Byron Murphy II in NFL draft.Only surprising thing about Seahawks' pick was that Byron Murphy II was available.Full NFL draft coverage: What to know about Seahawks, Huskies on Day 2.Full NFL draft coverage: What to know about Seahawks, Huskies on Day 3.

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