tlance
Kyrie Hater
Let's be real about Carson for a moment..7th rounder who only was the starter for awhile last year because Rawls was hurt, and Lacy was a walrus. Yes technically he "won" the job, but the competition basically bowed out of the race halfway through.
4 games, not a single rushing TD, only one game with truly respectable rushing numbers, coming against the, at the time, utterly hopeless Niners. The only above average rushing D he faced was Tennessee and they embarrassed him. (Ironically his only score, a receiving TD, came that game, but dreadful 3.1 ypc)
He's an average talent, and he runs like it. If he didn't, if he truly "flashed", Seattle wouldn't have spent a #1 on Penny, simple as that. Now Penny may very well be a bust, that possibility is very real. But, Carson is not some great diamond in the rough that will keep them from giving Penny every chance to take the job.
Grab Carson off waivers, draft him very late, sure why not, just be prepared to toss him aside by week 3-4 when he's just a cuff
If you think Pete Carroll cares about any of that, you have not been paying attention.
Carroll's track record suggests he will play the best guy regardless of franchise investment. And unlike some coaches, he has more than enough juice to win a GM power struggle. And if for some reason he doesn't, other teams will line up around the block to hire him.
If Carson is the best back, Carson will win the job.