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Exploring Jadarian Price’s Impact on Seahawks’ Offense

Seahawks first-round draft pick Jadarian Price met with the media for the first time Thursday afternoon at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. If first impressions are lasting impressions, Price nailed the press conference.

“Yeah, I’m just blessed to be here in Seattle, part of a winning program, winning culture. Just coming into a locker room and being able to compete, and coming from a culture like Notre Dame, and you’re being taught so many things, and the habits I created will translate to the NFL level, so that’ll help,” Price said

COMMITMENT 

In the age of the collegiate transfer portal, where players rarely stay with the same team throughout their collegiate careers, Price spent four years at Notre Dame. More impressive is the fact that he was not the lead running back his senior year. Jeremiyah Love, the Cardinals’ fourth pick overall, was the number one back.

 Price showed his NFL potential by recording 674 rushing yards on 113 carries and scoring 11 rushing touchdowns in his senior year with the Irish. As a kick returner, Price returned 12 kicks for 450 yards and had two touchdown returns. In the Irish’s game against the Purdue Boilermakers, Price scored four touchdowns, three rushing and one on a kickoff return.

“ Yeah, just class. When he talks about being a pro, just a classy person, obviously, he was raised well. I actually felt bad for him during the process, kind of in the background watching all these Zoom calls and everything, how many times he had to answer the question about why he stayed at Notre Dame, Schneider said. “ The guy is like, there are 32 teams in the National Football League, and we asked him several times. I’m sure he had to answer it with all the other clubs, as well, and he just handled it with ease.

OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE

Price will be given a chance to contribute on special teams immediately and an opportunity to compete for the starting running back position.  While humble  Price has set a goal to be the best running back he can be

“I really feel like after the National Championship run. It was a long season, so you really had to get back into the weight room and training room and fine-tune different parts of your body. I made a big jump this past season, as you can tell, on my game tape. I really feel like my habits stood out this past season,’ Price said when asking about his desire to continue to improve.

NEW COORDINATOR SIMILAR OFFENSE

 The Seahawks hired  Brian Fluery as the team’s new offensive coordinator. Fluery was the Niners’ tight ends coach and run game coordinator. He is expected to implement a wide-zone running game similar to what Klint Kubiak ran as the Seahawks’ offensive coordinator last year, before he was hired as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach.  Price was asked how the wide zone run game fits into his running style.

“Yeah, I like the options it gives me as a runner, just being able to stretch the defense and puncture, as they say, and just allow the linemen to do what they do and get up to the second level and the double teams. I really like to see it develop, and I’m pretty good at keeping my shoulders square once I get to the line of scrimmage, ‘ Price said. I love all the run plays, but it just happens to be — at Notre Dame we did a lot of mixture of mid zone and outside zone, and that just was what I was pretty good at.”

ROOKIE MINI CAMP IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET THE TONE

Price will be among the 68 players attending the Seahawks rookie minicamp this weekend. All eight of the Seahawks draft picks will be in attendance, as will seven confirmed free agents. For head coach Mike Macdonald, the rookie mini camp is an opportunity to set the culture and expectations.

“ We had such a great rookie class last year. That was really one of the catalysts for the team coming together. To start that process over again, I’m just fired up to meet the guys, see how they get along. But it’s going to take on like a new life form in itself. I think one of the things we do here that’s kind of cool is we don’t force it,” Macdonald said. “We let them — give them some air to breathe to figure out their own journey and how that meshes with the vets. That’s why we go through the whole process. But that’s what makes this so exciting, because you don’t know what’s going to happen, how it’s going to come together. Somehow it’ll come together one way or another.”

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