Fantasy Football Notes: Seattle Seahawks

Seattle struggled throughout last year with injuries, namely at the quarterback position, leading to a 4-12 record. Starter, Matt Hasselbeck, only played in 7 games, totaling 1,216 yards, 5 TDs, and 10 INTs, while only completing 52.2% of his passes. Filling in for Hasselbeck, Seneca Wallace was a bit better, but not spectacular, passing for 1,532 yards, 11 TDs, and 3 INTs, while completing 58.3% of his passes.

With the quarterback play pretty much MIA, the receivers went missing too. In fact, the guy who led the team in receptions and receiving yards was rookie tight end, John Carlson, who had 55 catches for 627 yards, and 5 touchdowns. As for the wide outs, Bobby Engram had 47 catches for 489 yards and 0 TDs, with Deion Branch tallying 30 catches for 412 yards and 5 TDs and Koren Robinson hauling in 31 catches for 400 yards and 2 TDs.

Due to the struggles of the passing game, the team’s running game took a bit of a hit.  Julius Jones came over from Dallas and only managed 698 yards and 2 TDs on 158 carries. Maurice Morris partnered with Jones, but got a meager 574 yards and 0 TDs on 132 carries. T.J. Duckett, another offseason addition, added 172 yards on 62 carries. He did exactly what he was brought in to do, though, which is score in the end zone, as he had 8 rushing TDs on the year.

While the offense failed to show up last season, Olindo Mare made the most of his chances when Seattle got into field goal position. Mare made 88.9% of his field goals for 102 points. He only missed 3 field goals all season long and would have been a top kicker had he had more opportunities. The Seahawks hope to get Mare those extra opportunities in 2009 as they expect a healthy Hasselbeck to be under center and have brought in TJ Houshmandzadeh to give him more toys to play with.