George Holani

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  George Holani — Week 2: Four Carries, All on One Drive

  Holani carried 4 times for 13 yards, all on Seattle's final drive with a 24–7 lead, including two carries from inside the Arizona 3 that gained 2 yards and nothing, and caught one pass for 2 yards. An 11-yard run to the Arizona 4 in the third quarter came back on offsetting penalties. Emanuel Wilson carried 21 times and Jadarian Price 13 in a 31–7 win over the Cardinals.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  George Holani Camp Update — August 31: Condotta Calls Him the Third-Down Back

  Bob Condotta at The Seattle Times characterizes Holani as Seattle's third-down back to start the season — the first reported role assignment of his camp — and he made the initial fifty-three-man roster, per Seahawks Wire. The backfield emptied around him, but Athlon's post-cut chart puts Jadarian Price first.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  George Holani Camp Update — August 23: The Opening Above Him Is Closing

  Holani went another week without an individual note in the accessed coverage, while Jadarian Price returned to full-speed team work in Nashville. The depth-chart opening above him is starting to close from the top, with the last auditions on the calendar this week.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  George Holani Camp Update — August 16: Last Healthy Back, Job Still Unclaimed

  Holani is one of the last healthy backs in a room that keeps losing bodies, exactly the opening June described. The week's evidence of him seizing it: a rough contact-drill rep and an anonymous preseason opener.

• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  George Holani 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  Ten games and 19.8 half-PPR points at 2.0 per game is production built on almost nothing in the way of sustained volume or role, which is exactly what the per-game number reflects. A finish of RB89 on the season tells the full story: whatever opportunity existed never materialized into the kind of consistent workload that carries between years.

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  George Holani scored two Half-PPR points a game last year, the profile of a deep backup you would never draft — and yet this might be the most interesting last-round running back in the range, because the Seattle backfield just cracked wide open. Pick two-24, running back 69, is the market pricing the depth role he had and ignoring the opening in front of him.

  The season, on Half-PPR scoring: 10 games, 22 carries for 73 yards, a couple of catches, one score, before a hamstring sent him to injured reserve for the stretch run. Two-point-oh points a game — deep-reserve territory, the fourth or fifth option in a loaded room. There is no case to make from the production itself; every ounce of interest here is about who is no longer standing in front of him.

  The career is two quiet seasons as a Seattle special-teamer and emergency back — undrafted out of Boise State, useful, unheralded, a body the staff trusts more than the box score suggests. Nothing in the file says featured runner; plenty in it says the coaches like him.

  The pattern beat has to abstain — 22 carries is not a sample any of our patterns can condition on, in either direction. So we skip to the structural truth this whole episode turns on: deep-backfield value is almost entirely a function of the depth chart above it, and Seattle's depth chart just lost its top two backs in the same offseason.

  The situation is the opening, and it is a big one. Kenneth Walker left for Kansas City in free agency — the reigning Super Bowl MVP, simply gone. Zach Charbonnet tore his ACL in the divisional round in January, had surgery in February, and is expected to open the season on the reserve list, with a late-July check-up that will tell the real story, per ESPN. Seattle drafted Jadarian Price at pick 32 to be the lead back, and the beat expects the rookie to start — but through all of spring practice, the coverage had Holani taking the most first-team running-back reps of anyone in the room, with Emanuel Wilson and Kenny McIntosh also competing. Brian Fleury runs the offense now, in for Klint Kubiak, with a mandate to maintain exactly what won the title. For Holani specifically, the logic is simple: the fewer healthy bodies ahead of him when the season opens, the more a special-teamer the staff already trusts gets a real look on early downs.

  The price: running back 69 at pick two-24. The slot paid 3.4 a game last season; he produced two-point-oh. Our verdict: watchlist. The production says fade, and on the production alone we would — but a defending champion with its top two backs gone, a rookie easing into the pros, and Holani reportedly leading the early reps is a genuine early-season opportunity at a last-round price. The caveat is the calendar: if Charbonnet is healthy by September or the rookie seizes the room outright, Holani is depth again by October; if the injury lingers into the fall, there are real early-down and passing-down snaps to be had for whoever is next in line.

  Watch the late-July Charbonnet check-up first — it decides how many touches are even available — then the camp order among Holani, Wilson, and McIntosh, and how quickly Seattle is willing to trust a rookie with a real workload. Two points a game says nothing about 20-26; the depth chart says everything. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.