If this has been a regular season game, it would have been a big deal that Marshawn Lynch was back at CenturyLink Field for the first time since he played his last game with the Seahawks in 2015.
Since it was the final preseason game it was not a big deal — Lynch doesn’t have an official carry in the preseason and he didn’t play in Seattle’s 30-19 defeat to Oakland on Thursday night.
But Lynch made his presence felt beforehand as he made the rounds of CenturyLink during early pregame warmups, stopping to chat to a few former Seahawks assistant coaches and staffers, and at one point stopping and putting a playful chokehold on general manager John Schneider.