RENTON, Wash. -- When asked last week what he has seen from Chris Carson since the Seattle Seahawks used their first-round draft pick on another running back, coach Pete Carroll said everything he has done this offseason "has just been top drawer."
One source inside the Virginia Mason Athletic Center put it a bit more colorfully, saying Carson's response to the challenge from Rashaad Penny has essentially been: "You think you're taking my f---ing job?"
Indeed, it was a common assumption when the Seahawks drafted Penny 27th overall that he would take over the starting running back job -- the job Carson won out of training camp last summer before an injury ended his rookie season.