Chris Carson

Unable to receive clearance to return to the field after undergoing neck surgery, Carson will retire as one of the best seventh-round picks in Seahawks ...

Off the field, Carson also made a remarkable impact, using his first contract extension signed in 2021 to buy his mother a home to replace her previous one that had been burned down by a fire. Even as he battled through injuries, Carson once again eclipsed 1,000 yards in 2019 and added a pair of receiving touchdowns out of the backfield. Under the terms of his release, he will receive several million in injury protection benefits.

Per the report, the Seahawks will release Carson with a failed physical designation. That qualifies Carson for injury protection benefits under the Collective ...

That qualifies Carson for injury protection benefits under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which would not be the case if he went on the retired list. Per the report, the Seahawks will release Carson with a failed physical designation. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Carson is retiring from the NFL. He is not expected to go on the reserve/retired list, however.

Seahawks running back Chris Carson is retiring at the age of 27 due to a neck injury, according to the NFL Network. With the Seahawks reporting to training ...

“He’s been one of my favorite Seahawks ever,” Carroll said in June. “I’ve loved what he stood for and what he brought, and we’d love to have him back again. But his rookie season was cut short when he suffered a broken leg after four games and had to miss the rest of the year. “And we’re going to love him through it and help him as much as possible, if that’s the case, like we do with everybody when it comes to the end of it. Some of Carson’s teammates took to social media after the news broke to pay tribute. He’s a very special player and a very special competitor. To see him grow and become such an impacting part of our program with such a great style and all of that, it was a thrill to watch. It’s a condition he’s got probably from weightlifting and all of the stuff he’s done over the years. His 12 100-yard games since 2018 is fifth-most in the NFL. We’ll miss him and everything he brought to our program.” He then had cervical fusion surgery in December that the team hoped would allow him to continue to play. “It’s a big disappointment,” Seahawks general manager John Schneider was quoted as saying via the team’s website. It hasn’t been an issue in the past.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll hinted in June that Carson might be forced to hang up the cleats due to the neck injury that sidelined him for all but four games in ...

It's difficult and it's real. Carson was previously excused from mandatory minicamp while rehabbing, as doctors had yet to clear him for a return to the field. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll hinted in June that Carson might be forced to hang up the cleats due to the neck injury that sidelined him for all but four games in 2021.

Carson was a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 and proved to be one of the team's best Day 3 picks of the last 10 years. All together, he appeared in 49 games, ...

In addition to re-signing Rashaad Penny to a one-year deal they picked Ken Walker in the second round of the NFL draft. It’s unfortunate that it will be cut short due to the injury – but it’s much better to play it safe rather than indulge the risks of playing pro football in his condition. Carson was a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 and proved to be one of the team’s best Day 3 picks of the last 10 years.

As the Seahawks scouted players for the 2017 draft, Pete Carroll fell in love with a little-used but bruising running back out of Oklahoma State.

I fell in love with how tough he is and how aggressive he is." I love playing with him, he's a heck of teammate, just comes to work, puts his head down and just gets 1,000 yards." Carson bounced back from that injury in a big way in 2018, rushing for 1,151 yards and nine touchdowns, making him Seattle's first 1,000-yard rusher since Marshawn Lynch four years earlier. "… I really love this guy because he is so physical and tough the way he ran. His running style is what we've always wanted here in Seattle. He's the type of runner that the whole team feeds off of. We'll miss him and everything he brought to our program."

Carson missed most of last season due to a neck injury that required surgery.

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NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported that Chris Carson is calling it a career after five seasons due to a neck injury that he sustained last season.

Carson told USA TODAY Sports Seriously in late June that he was trying to be ready for Week 1: "I want to get right as close as possible to training camp as I can. He's doing everything he can and he wants to compete all the way until the last word, and so he's going for it." "We’re waiting for, there’s kind of a big assessment to be done about two weeks from now," Carroll said during a news conference on June 9. "We're going to love him through it and help him as much as possible if that's the case, like we do with everybody when it comes to the end of it. We'll miss him and everything he brought to our program." It's difficult and it's real," Carroll said during a news conference.

It was the latest in a long list of issues preventing him from playing a full season in any of his five NFL seasons, all spent in Seattle. In June, head coach ...

Then, earlier this month, Carson expressed his intentions of working to get back on the field in spite of the long odds. The Seahawks will be hit with $1.2MM of that cost on their 2022 salary cap. As Rapoport notes, the Seahawks are officially releasing Carson (who has one non-void year remaining on his contract) with a failed physical designation.

A neck injury reportedly is forcing Seahawks RB Chris Carson to hang up his cleats after five seasons in Seattle.

He went over 1,000 yards rushing in the 2018 and 2019 NFL seasons. Over five years in Seattle, he started 48 of the 49 games he played in -- rushing for a career 3,502 yards and 24 touchdowns. Carson, who played at Oklahoma State in college, was drafted in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

The 27-year-old's career will come to an abrupt end after five seasons in the league.

Serving as the team’s workhorse running back, Carson racked up over 1,100 yards on the ground in both 2018 and ’19, scoring 18 total touchdowns during that span. He finished his fifth NFL season with 232 yards and three touchdowns on 54 carries. Carson will not make an official retirement statement, on the off chance that his neck dramatically improves.

Chris Carson has retired from the Seahawks according to multiple reports. He absolutely needs to do what's best for him, but man, will I miss him.

Despite the hope that rest and therapy would allow him to get back in the lineup, he eventually opted for neck surgery in November, and his season was officially over. Carson injured his neck in week four versus the Cardinals and never made it back on the field. Yet he was the guy who took the ball and ran with it – and ran and ran, at least until he broke his ankle in week four versus the Colts. Chris Carson, you can be sure that every member of the 12s wished you all the best. While I’ll miss Chris Carson shedding tacklers like dandelion seeds in a hurricane, I’m much happier knowing that he’ll stay as healthy as can be as a former NFL player. He was more effective than ever out of the backfield, too, hauling in 37 passes for four touchdowns. As detailed above, he was a freight train for the Hawks – assuming a freight train could do a somersault to avoid a wreck and keep on steaming down the track. Just know that Carson led the NFL tied for second with most 100-yard games and most first downs, was fifth in yards rushing, and my favorite stat – uh uh uh, go read the article yourself. That tendency, the knowledge that he could run right through would-be tacklers may have finally been his Achilles heel. As of this writing, neither Carson nor the team has confirmed the story, but this is not going to be one of those Tom Brady “did he really retire?” stories. When he was healthy, he consistently ranked among the best backs in the league. He absolutely needs to do what’s best for him, but man, will I miss him on the field.

The ultimate irony of Chris Carson is that the very quality that made him an epic Seahawk is the same one that almost certainly contributed to the end of ...

When Carson signed his first (and last, it turned out) big contract, for two years and up to $14.6 million (with $5.5 million guaranteed), he used the windfall to pay off his mom’s house. In Seattle, after beating out Thomas Rawls, C.J. Prosise and Eddie Lacy for the starting job as a rookie, he endured a new series of injuries – yet always seemed to come back with his tenacity intact. It’s an appropriate payback for the relentless effort Carson gave them in his meteoric rise to elite stature as an NFL running back. Carroll would say that the injury was perhaps the offshoot of his zealous weightlifting regimen, yet surely there was a toll to be paid for the contact he never shied away from in his five NFL seasons. It appears only a matter of time before Carson makes his retirement official. Twenty-eight running backs were taken ahead of him, fueling Carson’s desire to show he belonged right with the likes of Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook and Joe Mixon. And for a glorious stretch, in 2018 and 2019, when Carson rushed for 2,381 yards and 16 touchdowns, he moved into their echelon.