Last season the Washington Huskies had one of the highest pass rates in the nation. As their former offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb steps into the same role for the Seattle Seahawks, it seems his plan is to ease up a bit on that pass-happy approach to the game.
Here’s what Grubb told the media earlier this week about the importance of having a strong run game and how it makes everything else easier.
Grubb coordinated pass-heavy attacks at UW (15th in FBS in dropback rate over 2022-23) and at Fresno St. (17th from 2019-21). Mike Macdonald will want him to lean more on the run game.
Here was Grubb on that shift and about how, as Macdonald put it, he’s an O-line guy at heart. pic.twitter.com/RNGY19Hk7y
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) February 16, 2024
The Seahawks were a pretty strong pass-first team under previous offensive coordinator Shane Waldron – however that’s a different definition when it’s NFL competition compared to college. Odds are that Grubb will have no choice but to have a more run-heavy offense with the Seahawks. He simply doesn’t have an offensive line that can pass block well enough to run a really pass-heavy scheme like he did at Washngton. Hopefully that will change, but odds are it’s going to take more than just one offseason before we really start to see some improvement.
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