Source — Seahawks add RB Robert Turbin as Marshawn Lynch takes physical – ESPN

Running lend a hand Marshawn Lynch and the Seattle Seahawks agreed to a deal on Monday, Lynch’s agent launched.

Lynch’s contract is for this season handiest — Week 17 against the San Francisco 49ers and the postseason, a provide suggested ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The Seahawks additionally signed Robert Turbin, who spent his first three NFL seasons with the Seahawks. Lynch and Turbin acquire backfield spots that opened Sunday with Chris Carson and C.J. Prosise sustaining season-ending accidents.

Lynch, who used to be in Seattle on Monday taking a physical, spent substances of six seasons with the Seahawks from 2010 to 2015. The 5-time Expert Bowler came out of a one-year retirement to play for his space of beginning team, the Oakland Raiders, in 2017 and 2018.

Lynch, 33, did now not file retirement kinds with the league.

“He’s been working in actual fact laborious,” Carroll suggested 710 ESPN Seattle earlier on Monday. “He’s in actual fact pondering about the probability to attain something serving to out, and I gain it’s freakin’ immense if he could obtain on the market and tote the ball for us. The instances rolled correct today, and he can have four or 5 video games left in him. Maybe that’s what we want.”

Despite Lynch’s time some distance flung from the NFL, the Seahawks (11-4) had been determined for lend a hand at running lend a hand as they put collectively for their showdown Sunday evening against the 49ers (12-3) in a game that may perchance identify the NFC West champion.

Carroll confirmed Monday that Carson sustained a season-ending hip break within the Seahawk’s loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Seattle additionally is with out backups Prosise (arm) and Rashaad Penny (knee), each and each of whom are out for the remainder of the season.

Lynch rushed for 376 yards and three touchdowns in six video games with the Raiders closing season. He eclipsed 1,200 yards speeding in four consecutive seasons with the Seahawks from 2011 to 2014 and led the NFL in speeding touchdowns in 2013 and 2014.

“He’s had masses of time to be working and obtain ready in case something came up, and I’m anxious to glance him when we obtain him here,” Carroll said Monday. “There may perchance be slightly a kind of history here that is immense history. There used to be no person that ever amplified the more or less mentality and toughness that we employ to play with, so if we obtain a wide gamble to acquire the Beast lend a hand on the field, we will glance how that works out.”

The 30-year-same outdated Turbin used to be a fourth-spherical purchase by the Seahawks in 2012, piece of the famed draft class that additionally incorporated Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner. He rushed for 928 yards on 231 makes an are trying (4.00 moderate) in 48 video games with Seattle whereas serving as Lynch’s most crucial backup. That incorporated a occupation-high 310 yards in 2014.

Turbin spent three seasons with the Indianapolis Colts from 2016 to 2018, averaging 3.1 yards per raise over 23 video games. He closing completed in Week 6 of the 2018 season.

Turbin and Wilson had been roommates on avenue journeys and grew to change into shut guests all the contrivance in which by the running lend a hand’s three seasons in Seattle. He used to be piece of Wilson’s wedding occasion when the quarterback married singer Ciara in 2016.

Turbin posted to Instagram an image from at some level of the Seahawks’ locker room Monday evening, indicating he had returned to the team.

Additionally Monday, Carroll said he expects Jadeveon Clowney to play against the 49ers after lacking the Cardinals game with a core-muscle injure he is been going by since Week 10. That used to be the first assembly against San Francisco and Clowney’s best game of the season.