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Not sure he’ll get much more than that on the open market, so it may be doable for the team. Between the devaluation of the RB position overall as well as several other comparable FAs out there (Connor, Edmonds, Gordon, Michel, RoJo, Mack, Darrel Williams), I imagine teams will be able to get quality RBs on the cheap.
Wow, completely missed this story/angle. If true, what a brilliant late season addition.
Shout out to AD for inspiring Mr. Penny to pull off his best Derek Henry these past few weeks.
Interesting. I'd use Fred Taylor as comparison over Brown, Since Penny was a 1st round pick and Brown a 7th rounder. That's not to say Penny will have the same "became reliable" story as Taylor... but he was drafted as a blue chip guy.
Fair point. Although I felt Penny was overdrafted, he was still a blue chip prospect, as you say. I hope he can have a career resurgence, but Fred Taylor had two 1,600 total yard seasons in his first three years in the league, and double digit TDs both of those seasons, as well.BigJim® said:
Good point on Taylor. Why do I remember him being the butt of jokes? His career stats are pretty good with a blip here and blip there. FWIW- I was gaga over Penny based on his injury-free all purpose college career. Poised to take him at <> 8 until he got senior bowl MVP. His college highlight reel was something to behold.
Absolutely, and we had just seen a small-school breakout star the season before Penny in Kareem Hunt. FWIW, I had Penny high on my board, as well. I have carried him on my dynasty roster for several seasons, so it is not to say I am not a believer. My Bryce Brown comment was a bit of a reach, but I remember a brief stretch with Brown that he absolutely tore it up his rookie season, only to disappear just as quickly as he emerged. Like Penny, Brown was an incredibly gifted athlete (even better workout numbers than Penny, IIRC), but he did not enjoy the same collegiate success, nor was he drafted highly.
I always pined for Penny in my dynasty after he went 1.3, as he went to someone similarly enthusiastic who rejected every offer. Finally got him as a throw in earlier this year from a new owner of that team. However, I have always used a pick in my redraft league, until this year. It was to the point my brother called him "that guy you always waste a pick on." Sure could have used him this year. But I definitely get not being too enthusiastic based on my redraft ownership history.
Shoot yeah, that man finished out strong. Good call.I'll settle for the Thomas Jones career path for Penny
I don’t think they are necessarily reliant on Carson, but I am sure they don’t want to overpay Penny who has not been reliably healthy either. We may end up seeing a few new faces at RB in Seattle. I am sure they would love to have Penny back, but understand their reluctance to overpay him.
Yeah, I’m just taking the ESPN story at face value. It will be interesting to see if Penny gets a strong offer. If so, hard to imagine Seattle replacing him for less. More likely Deejay Dallas or Alex Collins again. They have a lot of needs in the draft.
I think the Seahawks could save money if they cut Carson (plus do we know Carson's health status). This has sneaky RB1 potential.
Yeah, I had Penny and Amon Ra in a big money league (with Cooper Kupp and Josh Allen). The playoff run felt like I was Justin Jefferson hitting the gritty for 30 yards down the field into the end zone.
The last time they had a full blown committee both guys were productive, but that was with Russ. Dunno who the QB and what the offensive scheme will be.
If I’m looking at value, I’m probably trying to buy Penny on this “full blown committee” narrative.
This will be Walker’s backfield by week three. Walker is greatly unvalued in FF drafts.massraider said:
RBBC is my guess. Plus the season doesn’t start for what, 101 days? Seems like plenty of time to heal up a slight hammy pull.
I expect a RBBC when both healthy with Penny leading the committee and for that to remain the case so long as he is healthy.
While I do think Penny heads into the season as the starter, he only signed a one year deal for not very much money.
Was not bad money either as the position goes on a one year deal either and main reason he could not get more was his past injury history. Penny says he got offered more elsewhere, Carroll said he was a main FA priority and maybe both of those things are just player/coach speak. But I do think Penny returned to SEA on idea he was fully going to get every chance to have a big role and establish his value and health going forward. I don't think drafting Walker changed that with respect to Penny being main RB, but likely had major impact on his ability to be a major workhorse. In fantasy terms it did not crush him, it severely dented his upside. That's how I see this situation and fwiw I own both of them, twice on teams together. Hate to say this but for fantasy reasons I'll probably be better off when one is healthy and the other is not.
As I said I do think Penny starts when healthy and is the leader of the RBBC - I just don't see much commitment on a one year $5.7MM deal. The drafting of Walker in the early second also says something - I think the plan is for him to take the lead role next year after working with Penny this year. I only own Penny and have no shares of Walker, so I hope Penny gets a large majority and stays healthy all season - that seems unlikely though based on his track record.
I do not however really agree with this. Just because he's been often injured does not mean he should consider himself to be injury prone going forward. Things change. Remember when SEA drafted him one of the reasons they cited was his durability. His age is not so much that he can't land a contract like Melvin got with the Denver the first time or at worse similar to what another often injured RB, Conner, got with Arizona. Fournett'es contract is worst then those two but he's another example, the first two times he signed with TB was super cheap, less then Penny is signing for now and at worst he's now at $9M for the year or $15M for two. Also fair to note Penny's wear and tear has been low and I do think NFL teams factor that in the equation. If by more money it meant committing him to more years or being put in an offense he did not trust to help him maximize his play I think it makes perfect sense to return.
Maybe but honestly can't think of a RB this applies to less then Penny.
Lot of people are a lot more interested in this crap backfield with a crap QB and a fossilized coach than I am.
Strange. He's never been on the waiver wire in any of my leagues. You must be talking redraft.
OK, then really strange unless very shallow leagues, like 15 man rosters or something like that. I've not seen him on the waiver wire in ANY dynasty leagues. I would love it if others would jump in and let me know how many of their dynasty leagues Penny was on the waiver wire and the number of roster spots in your league.
