Seahawks RB Thomas Rawls torches 49ers

“Every week, I’ve said in every interview I’ve had each week it’s just a matter of progressing and continuing to do what we do well”. “When he came in we told him right away there’s a different standard here, and you have to live up to the standard”, Baldwin said.

Rawls ran for a 2-yard TD on Seattle’s second drive, then gave the Seahawks a 29-13 lead with 12:32 remaining on a 31-yard catch-and-run pass out of the backfield.

The Seattle’s running game accounted for 255 yards (as opposed to San Fran’s 59 total rushing yards).

Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch was held out of the game with the 49ers Sunday due to a continuing problem with a strained muscle in his abdomen.

“We prepared for 24”.

“The poise that he showed was really good”, 49ers coach Jim Tomsula said of Gabbert. “So I don’t know what effect that had on us, but they did a great job taking advantage of it”.

A day after placing Colin Kaepernick on injured reserve with a shoulder injury, the 49ers saw Gabbert rally them from a bleak first quarter.

The Seahawks opened up a 20-0 lead in the first half, driving for touchdowns the first three times they had the ball. “A lot of teams have gone in and their tight ends have left the game with multiple touchdowns, multiple yards”. Though he finished the first half 12 of 17 for 101 yards, his incompletions missed their targets, lowlighted by a first half throw on a post route to Torrey Smith that seemed to be intended for Richard Sherman of the Seahawks.

More news will be coming out about Lynch’s health status, but the good news is that Seattle has a capable running back to play in rookie Thomas Rawls. The 49ers used their timeouts like they wanted to get stops, but some of their punting decisions were curious at best, and terrible at worst.

Lynch has missed three games and three quarters of a fourth in the last two months.

Tomsula reiterated Monday that San Francisco’s best chance at a comeback hinged on getting defensive stops and profiting from better field position. “The second one, I just kind of ran a little slant route”, Lockett said.

Rawls’ yards rushing were second-most in a game by any Seahawk, 57 yards behind Shaun Alexander’s team record set in 2001 against Oakland.

Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch may have a sports hernia, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Rawls also caught three passes for 46 yards and a touchdown.

Two hours before the kick-off of the game, Thomas Rawls didn’t know he was going to get a start in play.

Wilson said Rawls’ performance Sunday “was not a surprise to any of us”. “We rested him all week, and we rehabbed him all week long, and really the first time we took a real look at it was out here in pregame, and he just couldn’t get going”. “We made it a goal to come out here and just have fun”. “He’s so quick, so fast”, Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson said.

The 49ers on Sunday feared that veteran defensive lineman Glenn Dorsey tore his ACL in Seattle, and that turned out to be the diagnosis when he was examined Monday.