Former Georgia star Kenny McIntosh will likely miss a couple of weeks due to a left knee sprain, Seattle head coach Pete Carroll said on Sunday evening, according to Michael-Shawn Dugar of The Athletic. He suffered the injury in the Seahawks’ scrimmage on Saturday evening. He was injured after he was pulled down awkwardly in the second half.
Currently, McIntosh is listed as the fourth string running back for the Seahawks, behind Kenneth Walker III, Zach Charbonnet, and DeeJay Dallas.
McIntosh emerged as a key piece of the Georgia run game last season en route to another title. He’ll now try to have that same effect in the NFL.
The Seattle Seahawks selected McIntosh with the No. 237 overall pick in the seventh round of the 2023 NFL Draft. He put up impressive numbers for Georgia in 2022 to help propel the Bulldogs to their second consecutive national championship.
McIntosh ran for 829 yards and 10 touchdowns while also getting involved in the passing game with 505 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the air this past season. His biggest game of the year came against Kentucky when he rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown to help Georgia get the 16-6 victory.
All told, during his four years in Athens, McIntosh totaled 1,582 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns in addition to 861 receiving yards and four touchdowns. Most of that production came in 2021 and 2022 when he had 1,157 rushing yards to go with 13 touchdowns on the ground.
At the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, McIntosh turned in one of the top 40-yard dash times. He finished 13th among running backs with a 4.62 time in the event.
McIntosh played high school football at University School (Fla.), where he was a four-star prospect. He was the No. 194 overall recruit in the 2019 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
What NFL Draft analysts are saying about Kenny McIntosh
NFL Draft analysts have also noted McIntosh’s ability in the backfield, including NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein. He wrote about what type of player McIntosh can be in the NFL because of his ability to be a receiver, as well. That said, he still has some work to do, but could find himself a No. 2 in the backfield.
“McIntosh is best suited for a complementary role that allows him to explore the flanks of the offense instead of trying to pound and create between the tackles,” Zierlein wrote. “He lacks the vision to recognize and exploit opportunities quickly and the elusiveness to dart in and out of developing run lanes. He’s more than capable of finding big runs over the tackles and becomes a more physical finisher as the run progresses. McIntosh has excellent hands and the potential to mismatch coverages when isolated out of the backfield. He could become a RB2 with full-time third-down reps.”
On3’s Nick Schultz also contributed to this article.
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