Considering that Jadarian Price was the final pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, there might have been some doubt that the former Notre Dame running back would get a ton of carries in his rookie year. It turns out that the Seattle Seahawks could have occasion to give him plenty of work.
It’s officially training camp time in the NFL, and while teams have some leeway in determining when players have to report - with July 28 the drop-dead date for the entire team to be in their respective towns - the Seahawks required rookies to report on Friday. When those rookies did report, it was clear right away that Price stood out and will be the most newsworthy early in training camp.
The ex-Notre Dame star might have expected to be worked in slowly, but the reality of the situation in Seattle has instantly made him someone who could very easily be the leading running back early on. The team traded away last year’s starting RB, Kenneth Walker, to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Before that, the guy who was the team’s second-leading rusher, Zach Charbonnet, suffered a torn ACL in the divisional round of the playoffs. The Super Bowl champs have big plans for Price, whether that’s because of situations out of their control or whether that was always the plan when they selected the former Irish standout.
Former Notre Dame star Jadarian Price enters camp with expanded opportunity
“We’re going to run wide zone, and he’s going to run wide zone,” Seattle head coach Mike Macdonald said, via Seahawks.com. “We’re going to run some gap scheme. He’s going to run some of that too and then the pass game he can come alive, too. I think that’s part of our offense in general, that we can take another step in including our halfbacks in the pass game.”
Macdonald then explained that even if Jadarian Price loses carries to other backs on the roster, that’s hardly going to be the end of his chances to show what he can do.
“Then,” Macdonald added. “He’s a great special teams player as well. The kick return stuff, we’ll see how it shakes out in other phases, but he’s going to come in and compete with the rest of the guys.”
NFL teams rarely make their starting running back a kick returner, but in Price, the big draw in drafting him in the first round was that he could be a weapon in so many different ways.
returner at Notre Dame, returning 22 kickoffs for 794 yards (an average of 36.1 yards per return) and three touchdowns. The Seahawks believe Price will make a lot of plays with the ball in his hands, and they want to give him every opportunity to have the ball in his hands.
In his last two years with Notre Dame, Price ran for over 1,300 yards and 18 touchdowns while averaging more than 6 yards per carry. His numbers were hampered a bit because he was sharing time with Jeremiyah Love, but he could have gone somewhere else and done just as well.
In addition to his rushing yards, he caught 10 passes for 100 yards and two more touchdowns. And then on special teams in 2025, he returned 12 kicks for 450 yards and two touchdowns.
It’s clear that Seattle wants Jadarian Price to contribute to the Seahawks the same way he did with Notre Dame. If he can do that, he’ll be one of the best offensive rookies in the NFL.
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