Marshawn Lynch tells people he plans to retire

Seattle Seahawks Marshawn Lynch is planning to retire according to the people closest to him. He played in seven games while dealing with hamstring and abdominal injuries.

Marshawn Lynch over the last half decade has been one of the NFL’s more unstoppable skill players, helping lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl title in 2013 and a follow-up appearance the next season. The noise level in CenturyLink Field – then called Qwest Field – was so deafening that activity roughly equivalent to a magnitude 1 natural disaster was recorded by a Pacific Northwest Seismic Network seismograph in the area.

If Lynch does return, he will cost $11.5 million against Seattle’s salary cap for next season.

This marks the third consecutive offseason that retirement talk has surrounded Lynch, a 10-year veteran with 9,112 yards and 74 touchdowns on 2,144 carries.

Though Schneider is under the impression retirement is a good possibility for Lynch, he didn’t pretend to have a better grip than anybody else on what the running back’s next move will be.

ESPN also reported that teammates are attempting to talk Lynch out of retiring. If the Seahawks were to release or trade Lynch, the cap hit would be $5 million.

A punishing runner nicknamed “Beast Mode” because that imposing style, Lynch was originally the No. 12 overall pick of the Buffalo Bills out of Cal-Berkeley.