A rough past few games have once again shaken the confidence of the Seattle Seahawks' run defense. The Los Angeles Rams could provide a bounce-back opportunity.
The Seattle Seahawks have the fourth-worst run defense in the league entering Week 9. Luckily, for a team trying to sort out their woes in that area, they are arranged with an opponent who hasn’t been great running the football.
Like Seattle, which is 29th in the league in rush yards per game , that doesn’t mean Los Angeles’ running back room isn’t talented. Kyren Williams is 12th in the NFL in rushing yards, piling up 533 on 139 carries in seven games. He’s been inefficient on a per-carry basis but has eight touchdowns on the year — a testament to his goal-line threat.
The Seahawks have had outlier games this season where the run defense has been good. In Week 1, Seattle held the Denver Broncos running backs to just 64 yards on 20 carries. Two weeks later, the Miami Dolphins rushers were limited to 59 yards on 18 carries. That stems from the team's leaders trying to take over. Williams used himself and his responsibilities as an example: If he’s assigned to the B-gap, but consistently sees the opponent cutting back inside to the A-gap, he ends up trying to play two gaps at once. That lack of dedication to an assignment gets the defensive line out of position and allows the offensive line to command the point of attack.
Seattle has a golden opportunity to set the tone versus the Rams. The Seahawks’ run defense was flat from the jump against the Bills, even at home, so they will need to reverse that trend on Sunday.
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